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Feb. 20th, 2009 09:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellarien"Knot the ends of your strands to the loop," the instructions say. They don't specify what kind of knot. I suppose I could start stringing strands with enough leftover thread at the ends, and worry about that later. My original plan had been to attach the strands to the loop at one end before threading, but that seems to be heterodox.
I have seed beads. I have bead cones, eye pins, clasps, needles, glue, and thread -- (purple size D Nymo), possibly not enough of it if I'm going to be using it double and losing a couple of feet on each strand. I also have cold feet, and needle threaders that don't work and keep breaking.
Update: More googling. Opinions differ: tie all the strands in any old knot, 'thread' or 'slip' that on the eye pin, then string the beads; or string first, knot the thread tails together with an overhand and use double half-hitches to attach that to the pin. I've ordered a helpful looking book: score one for Google Books as a marketing tool.
The ladies who post beading instructions on line seem mostly not to be technical writers; also, they all have their own incompatible ways of doing things. I've seen three or four variants on how to make a wrapped-wire loop, I think. (I've yet to see one in the flesh. The least inexpensive of my commercially-made necklaces has little coils of wire around the necks of the eye pins to make them look like wrapped loops.)
I have seed beads. I have bead cones, eye pins, clasps, needles, glue, and thread -- (purple size D Nymo), possibly not enough of it if I'm going to be using it double and losing a couple of feet on each strand. I also have cold feet, and needle threaders that don't work and keep breaking.
Update: More googling. Opinions differ: tie all the strands in any old knot, 'thread' or 'slip' that on the eye pin, then string the beads; or string first, knot the thread tails together with an overhand and use double half-hitches to attach that to the pin. I've ordered a helpful looking book: score one for Google Books as a marketing tool.
The ladies who post beading instructions on line seem mostly not to be technical writers; also, they all have their own incompatible ways of doing things. I've seen three or four variants on how to make a wrapped-wire loop, I think. (I've yet to see one in the flesh. The least inexpensive of my commercially-made necklaces has little coils of wire around the necks of the eye pins to make them look like wrapped loops.)
