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"Undersea Tawashi Collection" 6 patterns, $4.50
"3 Flower Tawashi" 3 patterns, $3.50
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Just a quickie today – knit this pattern in intarsia for a pretty stripe, border or edging, or bead it as a cuff bracelet, hatband, or just one repeat as a tiny amulet bag. Have fun! And take a look here for more free butterfly knitting and loom-beading charts. New to loomed beadwork? Here’s how [...]  Another freebie for you This Discworld chart can be loom-beaded as a bag panel or wallet, or knitted in intarsia. You could also work it in crochet, needlepoint or cross-stitch, though this will stretch the design out sideways. You’ll need: 3 shades of green (dark, medium, light) 3 shades of brown (dark, medium, [...] Whee, more reasons to celebrate! Last week we hit 150 posts, and for the first time hit 100 000 pageviews a month! To say thanks to you all for reading, spreading the word, and generally being nice people (yay!), I’d like to give you a sneak preview of my forthcoming pattern book. It’ll be out [...] On Wednesday, we took a look at lace knitting, for which stitch markers are a real help. Of course, you can get plain ones fairly cheaply – they are basically little plastic rings that you slide onto the knitting needle between the two stitches you want to mark. As you knit past those stitches, you [...] I saw some of these ‘swinky’ things in an accessories shop a few weeks ago, and thought they looked pretty, and easy to make yourself. They consist of two combs joined by elasticated strands of beads which cross over each other, and are worn by sliding the combs in your hair so that the elasticated [...] Beaded rosettes are decorative discs of beadwork, traditionally used in Native American ceremonial and dance costumes. The rosettes are made by couching beads – that is, by stringing beads and then sewing them to a backing – usually leather or hide. Some people prefer a two-needle style, where the beads are strung with one needle [...] On Wednesday, I showed you how to make a heddle bead loom from cardboard. Today, lets take a look at how to use the loom. Tension-loom beadweaving is known as double-weft. The weft thread passes through each bead twice. Heddle loom beading is double-warp – the weft thread passes through each bead only once, but [...] When loom beading is mentioned, most people think of tension looms, such as the box lid beadloom I posted a while ago. Beadweaving can, however, also be done on a loom with a rigid heddle. The advantage of weaving in this way is that unlike tension looms, where the thread has to pass through each [...] Japanese beadwork uses two main techniques to make 3d objects from beads, popular as charms, pendants, and rings. Hachinoji-ami, named because the thread forms figure eights (hachi=eight), is closely related to Right Angle Weave. Hana-ami (flower weave) is a form of triangular weave used to make bead flowers and to start and finish spherical or [...] Let’s bring this week of beading tutorials to a close with these beaded molecular models! Today I’ll be showing you how to make beaded models of caffeine, and capsaicin (the compound that makes chilies hot). Either as they are, or turned into a necklace or keychain, they’d make a great gift for a budding chemist, [...] |
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