Hi tyers... beginners and
experienced,
Here I come with a lesson that I learned
some 30 minutes ago:
Beads... cool stuff which you can use to
lots of things. My girlfriend is a IOCSF member... which means 'International
Order of Cross Stitching Fanatics'. She's got BILLIONS of these small glass
beads... and she is very supportive to my own addiction, which means that I got
a "few" myself.
This type of beads has an advantage to brass
beads... they're cheap... you get a LOT for your money, but since they are so
small, your eyes will fool you. They are so
small, so small and they don't look like much when you pour them up in your
stack-pack containers, but believe me... there are quite a number of them
there!
Here is where you should think twice, cause
someday this will make a difference... maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow...
but someday it will. Do NOT pour them all up in that stack-pack container. Load
it with around 20 and put the rest aside in some kind of "reserv" storage. You
WILL flip that stack-pack container over someday... and if you had them all
there, you will be shocked when you see how many they actually were.
It's like a cup of coffee. It doesn't look like much in the cup... but it get's
VERY big when it's on the floor. And these beads are even worse. They have some
kind of inner force that makes them repell eachother. You will have beads in
each corner of the room... guaranteed!!
Glass beads... good, cheap, lots of colors
to chose from and lots of different ways to use them. But remember:
There is only ONE way to store them on your tying bench... in SMALL
NUMBERS!!
/Nick (returning to the floor to find
as many as possible)
