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Hello,
My name is Jessica and I am very new to knitting, but have been a member for the last couple of years. :-)
I am curious as to weather there are still users here, as it seems the last posts were more than a year ago.
I laminate my patterns and will pick up a couple rows and lay out in front of me, when I complete 2 or 3 rows I then mark them off with wet erase markers, saving money on prints alone.
Wal-Mart has a laminating machine for 19.99 and 60 pack of sheets are 15.99 (my best investment so far)
I use this with word and chart patterns especially portrait patterns, I love it!
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.
Thank you so much. Those do look better based on my memory. I don't have them all out at the moment. The best color reference I found so far was Fusion beads Delica by number. They have accurate pics to what my beads look like. I don't know if they have all the colors or not. I really appreciate this. My current project just doesn't look that much like my pattern. I may scrap it. I want to start another, but I'm trying to determine if the colors are good matches which is challenging when I don't have all Delica colors. That would make it easier! But pricey. So thank you. Let me know if I can help!
Alisha,
Melanie keeps kicking me to remind me to finish the c2c
I'm just finishing up another project with the PatternWizard and will be working on about 5 features at the same time.
C2c IS coming. Once in awhile I even get a meal here in the dungeon.
Terry
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Hello,
My name is Jessica and I am very new to knitting, but have been a member for the last couple of years. :-)
I am curious as to weather there are still users here, as it seems the last posts were more than a year ago.
I laminate my patterns and will pick up a couple rows and lay out in front of me, when I complete 2 or 3 rows I then mark them off with wet erase markers, saving money on prints alone.
Wal-Mart has a laminating machine for 19.99 and 60 pack of sheets are 15.99 (my best investment so far)
I use this with word and chart patterns especially portrait patterns, I love it!
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.
Thank you so much. Those do look better based on my memory. I don't have them all out at the moment. The best color reference I found so far was Fusion beads Delica by number. They have accurate pics to what my beads look like. I don't know if they have all the colors or not. I really appreciate this. My current project just doesn't look that much like my pattern. I may scrap it. I want to start another, but I'm trying to determine if the colors are good matches which is challenging when I don't have all Delica colors. That would make it easier! But pricey. So thank you. Let me know if I can help!
Alisha,
Melanie keeps kicking me to remind me to finish the c2c
I'm just finishing up another project with the PatternWizard and will be working on about 5 features at the same time.
C2c IS coming. Once in awhile I even get a meal here in the dungeon.
Terry
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