[Nfb-krafters-korner] to members of fine wire necklace class

[Barb Roland]

Hi Karen, that is what I was going to do to see if would work, just not had 
a chance to get more beads yet. Thanks for sharing, so now I know it will 
work.
Barb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen" <butterfly05 at earthlink.net>
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 28, 2012 9:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] to members of fine wire necklace class


> Watching Olympic swimming I have had time to work with the fine wire on a
> regular loom to a good result. Using gold wire and blue seed beads on the
> 31peg KK, I e-wrapped three pegs for the cast-on and continued taking the
> wire back to the first peg knitting like an i-cord until I started pulling
> up the beads between the knitting of peg 2 and then peg 3. I knit peg 1,
> pulled up beads, knit peg 2, pulled up beads, knit peg 3 and returned to 
> peg
> 1. This worked much easier for me than e-wrapping on the spinning Wonder
> Knitter and the advantage is any size of beads may be used. This was
> practice so it's a shorter necklace than the class project. I will knit 
> the
> perals on the silver wire I purchased for this next. I've already strung 
> all
> the beads for that one but wanted to be sure I wouldn't get it all kinked.
> It works up quickly and looks very nice once you get going on it. Has 
> anyone
> else tried this?
>
> Karen
>
>
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