[Nfb-krafters-korner] How are the beaded projects doing?

[Eileen Scrivani]

Laura:

Okay a little bit of an update on my progress with the snow flakes.  I am 
sure that the power pro threading material I was original using is not for 
me.  Its too floppy & loosy goosy.  Today, I sat down with the beads and 
some fine soft flex which is a very nice beading wire.  It was much much 
easier to control, but still not problem free.  I use bead stoppers which 
are little tight coils/springs that you pinch apart and put the stringing 
material  between the coils of the spring and then let it close.  For me 
this works much better than a stop bead on the soft flex.  I was still 
having difficulty once I'd complete a circle, at the point I had the 
stopper.  I took the stopper off after having completed the initial picots 
of add 3 go through 1.  At the point I took the stopper off, the circle came 
undone, but my beads did not all fall off.  I had a nice design of the 
picots that were curling a little, so I just re-connected the circle as best 
I could.

In my mind, it is indicating to me that I may do much better experimenting 
with a fine gauge wire in about a 30-32 gauge in a dead soft.  It will not 
have the same look as what Laurie does, but I think will let me work through 
an entire snow flake without it falling apart on me.  I have to order some 
silver or crafting wire and play with it before I can say this will 
definitely be a solution for my clumsy finger problem.

I suspect the wire will show through the beads because its not as fine as 
the threads for traditional bead weaving.  And, to finish it off it may 
require some wire wrapping technique or else crimping.  Again I need to play 
with it before I can comment any more on how it works.

Eileen