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Morning Melanie,
Thanks for the compliments. No worries with when you get back to me. I too will be busy for the next few days~~4 to be exact~~but, not in a fun way. Nope, I have to go back to work which is a 4 on & 4 off weekly drudgery. I work nights and on work days/nights I have no time for fun things like beading or embroidery.
I will be going to bed soon for my
"work nap", I get up every work day at 2pm. I live 50 miles from
work, so I get very little sleep ont the 4 work days. Bummer, but
we like to eat & I love to spend money on my craft
fetishes. 
I can work in square stitch too, was the first stitch I learned when I first started beading at the age of 19 a ton of yrs ago. At the time I couldn't afford a loom or good beads. I had to buy the cheap beads from the 5 & 10 variety store in the small town I grew up in. I used white cotton thread from my Mom's sewing stash. It was a bear to keep from knotting up every other line of beading. During those early beading yrs I developed my own way of picking up a whole line of beads and sewing them down 2 at a time in my own square stitch way. I don't have any diagrams of the technique and haven't worked in that style in over 25 yrs or more. My reason for creating my style of picking up a line of beads at a time was I hated picking up one bead at a time back then. Now it doesn't bother me to pick one at a time. And I loved being able to cut the beaded projects and not losing all the beads too. Had to do that a time or two when some bead color kept bugging me til I went back and cut the line it was in out and corrected it. That was why I never learned how to loom bead back then even tho after I married my hubby bought me a simple Native American style loom. He and our son used it, but I stayed away from it. Now I have 4 looms I bought especially for loom beading. Do I have time to work on all of them at one time? Not a chance!!
The bead in the center of the star is a piece of turquoise in a sort of teardrop shape. It a piece, from some left over I bought yrs ago for use in past beading projects. The pieces in the loop are a few more like it along with turquoise colored 11/0 Delica beads.
Thanks for the offer in helping with PDFs. When I have time to get back to creating future projects I will let you know if I run into problems. I'm not very experienced in the beading program, but as I use them I am getting better.
Gotta' go, have a few things to do before I turn in for my nap. Have a great day and I will be back in a few days. And YAY I only have 45 more lines to go on the vulture loomed background to finish. Then I can begin the tedious part I hate most~~those 311 warp strings!! Just one reason I don't like loom beading.
I can not get a pattern color choice. My orange black and white picture is coming out purple, gray, black ect.
Hi everyone!! My name is Amanda. I have been crocheting for almost 20 years! Wow I can't believe how much I both hate and love that number! I love it because I can't believe I have stuck with something for that long and I hate it because it makes me feel old even though I haven't even hit the natural age of 40. My mother taught me to crochet before I had graduated high school. I made my first graphgan when I was 20 and there's been no looking back!!! i love that I found this particular community. I do have at least one question that I have scoured the boards looking for a possible answer to but either I am the only one with the issue or maybe people don't realize its off a bit. When I get to the step of choosing a color pallette it doesn't show them all to me. I am trying to make a graph of 2 flamings facing each other. I want to use the caron simply soft color pallette and I want to choose my colors. I can't choose all that are available because for some reason the pallette doesn't fit completely in the box its in. Its like all the colots are there but I can't see them all because they have floated beyond the border as though the images didn't wrap or auto enter to the next line. Am I making any sense whatsoever? TIA
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Sherry,
Feel free to post links!
We encourage learning here.
It's so much
easier now, don't you think? I find myself wishing there had been
an Internet long ago, when I learned! There were things I struggled
to master, because there was no one to show me and the books
weren't always clear.
I find myself wishing there had been
an Internet long ago, when I learned! There were things I struggled
to master, because there was no one to show me and the books
weren't always clear.I definitely think
being self-taught is a great accomplishment. Give yourself a pat on the back for
that!
Give yourself a pat on the back for
that! Morning Melanie,
Thanks for the compliments. No worries with when you get back to me. I too will be busy for the next few days~~4 to be exact~~but, not in a fun way. Nope, I have to go back to work which is a 4 on & 4 off weekly drudgery. I work nights and on work days/nights I have no time for fun things like beading or embroidery.
I will be going to bed soon for my
"work nap", I get up every work day at 2pm. I live 50 miles from
work, so I get very little sleep ont the 4 work days. Bummer, but
we like to eat & I love to spend money on my craft
fetishes. I can work in square stitch too, was the first stitch I learned when I first started beading at the age of 19 a ton of yrs ago. At the time I couldn't afford a loom or good beads. I had to buy the cheap beads from the 5 & 10 variety store in the small town I grew up in. I used white cotton thread from my Mom's sewing stash. It was a bear to keep from knotting up every other line of beading. During those early beading yrs I developed my own way of picking up a whole line of beads and sewing them down 2 at a time in my own square stitch way. I don't have any diagrams of the technique and haven't worked in that style in over 25 yrs or more. My reason for creating my style of picking up a line of beads at a time was I hated picking up one bead at a time back then. Now it doesn't bother me to pick one at a time. And I loved being able to cut the beaded projects and not losing all the beads too. Had to do that a time or two when some bead color kept bugging me til I went back and cut the line it was in out and corrected it. That was why I never learned how to loom bead back then even tho after I married my hubby bought me a simple Native American style loom. He and our son used it, but I stayed away from it. Now I have 4 looms I bought especially for loom beading. Do I have time to work on all of them at one time? Not a chance!!
The bead in the center of the star is a piece of turquoise in a sort of teardrop shape. It a piece, from some left over I bought yrs ago for use in past beading projects. The pieces in the loop are a few more like it along with turquoise colored 11/0 Delica beads.
Thanks for the offer in helping with PDFs. When I have time to get back to creating future projects I will let you know if I run into problems. I'm not very experienced in the beading program, but as I use them I am getting better.
Gotta' go, have a few things to do before I turn in for my nap. Have a great day and I will be back in a few days. And YAY I only have 45 more lines to go on the vulture loomed background to finish. Then I can begin the tedious part I hate most~~those 311 warp strings!! Just one reason I don't like loom beading.
I can not get a pattern color choice. My orange black and white picture is coming out purple, gray, black ect.
Hi everyone!! My name is Amanda. I have been crocheting for almost 20 years! Wow I can't believe how much I both hate and love that number! I love it because I can't believe I have stuck with something for that long and I hate it because it makes me feel old even though I haven't even hit the natural age of 40. My mother taught me to crochet before I had graduated high school. I made my first graphgan when I was 20 and there's been no looking back!!! i love that I found this particular community. I do have at least one question that I have scoured the boards looking for a possible answer to but either I am the only one with the issue or maybe people don't realize its off a bit. When I get to the step of choosing a color pallette it doesn't show them all to me. I am trying to make a graph of 2 flamings facing each other. I want to use the caron simply soft color pallette and I want to choose my colors. I can't choose all that are available because for some reason the pallette doesn't fit completely in the box its in. Its like all the colots are there but I can't see them all because they have floated beyond the border as though the images didn't wrap or auto enter to the next line. Am I making any sense whatsoever? TIA
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