[Nfb-krafters-korner] crocheting with beads

[Laurie Porter]

Well, let me know if you would like a phone class on them

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From: "Carol Osmar" <osmarc at sbcglobal.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crocheting with beads


> Lori, Thanks for the info.  I am interested in crochet beading too, so I 
> will check out the sites.  Don't tell Henrietta, but I went to a sidewalk 
> sale while I was on vacation last week and found bead spinners and I 
> bought one for each of us.  I haven't seen her yet so she doesn't know. 
> They were marked twenty dollars but on sale for five, and included beads, 
> thread and findings for a few
>
> Carolprojects.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Laurie Porter" <freespirit1 at tds.net>
> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
> Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 8:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crocheting with beads
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>>I haven't started crocheting with beads yet, but I've collected a lot of 
>>research about it over the years . Maybe when I get better at crocheting
>> with yarn. However, I've read that bead crochet is somewhat differen 
>> beyond
>> having to load all those beads onto strands for that, I use a very handy
>> device called a bead spinner. or using crocheted stiches using bead 
>> thread
>> between rows of seed beads.  One of the best sources for information 
>> about
>> bead crochet is lydia Borrens site http//www.beadwrangler.com She has 
>> many
>> different workshops and tutorials  with text that is written well enough 
>> for
>> people who can't access printed diagrams and arrows as is the case with 
>> so
>> much in the beading and crafting world.   Also check out the Beadwork
>> Samplers page Their history of beading stiches and their techniques pages
>> are also well written and have served as a primer for me to learn the
>> stiches. She has this great project of making samplers of all the bead
>> stiches sewing them onto fabric and then creating a book with the fabric
>> pieces. That got me to thinking that it would be cool to creat a book of
>> that kind so that blind people could actually feel what the stiches are
>> supposed to look like. Unfortunately, I'm not much of a sewer, as hard as
>> that might  be to believe. I have most of the stich samplers done with 
>> the
>> exception of crochet,  I just have to learn to sew them onto the fabric 
>> and
>> use them to creat the book. any of you that might be experienced with 
>> sewing
>> beadwork I would really appreciate the assistance in this kind of 
>> project.
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Theresa Taylor" <tct71887 at gmail.com>
>> To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
>> <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 11:19 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crocheting with beads
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>>
>>>I range in size with beads to f, g, h or i hook. I usually use pony 
>>>beads,
>>>because they snug in well. There are various sizes and colors of pony
>>>beads. It kind of adds flair to a simple bag or slippers. Kids and teens
>>>especially like it.
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: <Blindhands at aol.com>
>>> To: <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2010 8:40 PM
>>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] crocheting with beads
>>>
>>>
>>>> What size hook have you used?  What size bead and yarn?
>>>>
>>>> I have thought of crocheting with beads, but have not done much 
>>>> research
>>>> on
>>>> it.
>>>>
>>>> The beads that I have in my house would all be too small for any of
>>>> this.
>>>>
>>>> Joyce  Kane
>>>> www.KraftersKorner.org  (http://www.krafterskorner.org/)
>>>> Blindhands at AOL.com
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