Your instructions are very well explained, Rebecca. I use the same method, just with the following comments:
I use .38 Tiger Tail beading wire, bought through eBay in 100m rolls very cheaply (also my crimps). I find buying shorter lengths in bead shops far too expensive. I use gold seed beads between my regular beads for spangles (to match gold crimps), and thread my beads on the wire: seed bead, 4mm bead, seed, crimp, 6mm bead, seed, 8mm bead, seed, 6mm bead, crimp, seed, 4mm bead, seed. Once both ends have been crossed through the bobbin hole, the ends are then threaded through the beads until they are through the 6mm bead before I crush the crimps and cut off them off. I use a pair of surgical haemostat clamps to hold one end of the cut wire in turn while I manipulate the other. And I have a lovely beading mat to lay out my beads first, made from some thick cord sandwiched between two squares of fabric, with a ridge of cord around the four sides, then machine stitched in the ditches. I love spangling! Noelene in Cooma nlaffe...@ozemail.com.au - To unsubscribe send email to majord...@arachne.com containing the line: unsubscribe lace y...@address.here. For help, write to arachne.modera...@gmail.com
