![]() ![]() There are many wonderful examples of bead crafts in museums around the world! But beaded crafts don't have to be big and elaborate. The first bead crafts were probably related to adorning clothing with thousands of tiny beads, but artists soon discovered the many opportunities using beads: crafts for other items such as baskets, jars, and ornaments. If you buy 15 or more things from them, you can get a discount, too.Bead crafts have been around for hundreds of years. They have great assortments in many colors and finishes at reasonable prices. If you do need a LOT of beads, check with Fire Mountain Gems. A tube of beads may have a couple hundred in it or, if you're using size 6s, much less. And, yes, stores like Michaels and JoAnn's have them. They are usually clear or have a transparent color or an AB finish to show off the silver lining. Or, if you have some dental floss threaders around, you could use those.Īs someone said earlier, the silver lined beads have the hole lines with a silver color foil. You can pul the sides apart and stick your yarn through with no threading problems. The whole needle, except the ends pulls apart to form an eye. ![]() If you're stringing them, I'd recommend a big eye beading needle. The 1 mm hook won't go through a few of the beads that have a slightly smaller hole, so if you're using DK or worsted, that's OK, because if the hook won't go through, neither will the yarn. ![]() If you're using a crochet hook to apply the size 8 beads, you'll need a hook that's 1 mm or a little smaller. If you want to use them on chunky yarn, I'd go to a crow or pony bead. I'd feel comfortable using size 8 seed beads on lace weight yarn, fingering yarn, sport yarn, DK, or a light worsted.įor worsted, or if I just want to have a bigger bead, I'd go to a size 6. If you use one of the heavier worsteds, there may be a lot more that have holes that are too small. The beads are not uniform, so if you use size 6 on worsted, there will be a few that will have holes that are just too small. I've used size 8 seed beads with yarn as heavy as worsted. The higher the number, the smaller the size with seed beads. We knit a sample to see if we're going to like a pattern before we spend lots of time making a big project, don't we? It'd be worth it to do the same with a bead project, I think. My advice is to buy some beads from a local source and with scrap yarn, knit a sample. I usually use beads that are either clear or coordinate with the color of my yarn. The only thing about silver lined beads I'd be concerned with is that they will tarnish eventually and look black not beautiful and shiny as they do when new. I don't know what size would be best for heavier yarn because I haven't looked for larger beads. I've used size 6 beads with sock-weight yarn and size 8 beads with lace yarn. Before you begin you need to decide which look you're after. Pre-strung beads seem to gravitate to the purl side of the project and need to be pushed onto the right side afterwards. When you use the pre-stringing method the result is the beads sort of sink into the project, especially when it's a stockinette stitch. ![]() When you use the crochet hook (a teeny-tiny one which fits through the hole in your beads) method you end up with the beads sitting on top of the project. If you've already looked at the YouTube videos about knitting with beads, you've seen that there are two ways to do it: either put the beads in with a crochet hook while you are knitting or string all the needed beads before you begin and slide them up the yarn into the current stitch as you knit.Įach of these techniques results in a different look. When you get a tube of beads, there are several thousand beads in that tube so the number of beads for the project doesn't even enter the equation most of the time. Click to expand.I have purchased beads for knitting in the bead department at JoAnn's and Michaels as well as at my local bead store. ![]()
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