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Ann Benson has a great book on tapestry crochet. I have made many projects with size12 pearl cotton an 11/0 Czech seed beads with beaded crochet, which is very easy. The hardest part is making sure the beginning chain is straight and flat, after that it is simple. There are tutorials on this technique. If you can work a chain and single crochet you will be fine! As for durability, I made a cell phone case which has not come apart after a few years of abuse! I would suggest scanning a simple photo into the pattern wizard and have it charted for beading. The key I came up with had Myuki beads, but you most likely can substitute Czech beads if you can find the colors as they are less expensive and are round as opposed to the Myuki which tend to be more tube shaped although they are the same size. I hope this helps.
Hi Melanie,
Your shift work you did sounded quite frustrating. I am not a phone person, don't like to talk on them and use mine mainly as my portable internet instead. If my tablet had phone availability I would do away with the phone itself.
I hate weaving ends in too. The vulture tapestry I have not used the end tuck method throughout it. Instead I tie the new thread to the old one, slip the ends close and continue away. Since it will have a suede backing attached to it and is a wall hanging I know it will not have extra stress on it and should never coem apart like a bracelt or something used daily would. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do with this particular piece excet tuck all warp threads in and hide them. I used Fireline for the warp which I will not do again for one this large. I prefer the Nymo so it can be tightened as neede once started. The Fireline does not have much give beyond the initial tightening and as the beads are worked in and it needs adjusting it has broke 3 threads I ahd to repair with beading in place. Was not a feat I enjoyed, but nmanaged it to the best of my ability. The edges were not as smooth going from side to side as I like on my loom work, but usiong the springs provided with the Mirrix loom it is hard to set them and keep them spread apart like I prefer. I will remodel this loom and change the springs for threaded bars next tiem I use it for bead work. Some folks don't like threaded bars, but for me the warps stay in place and can be tightened better. The spring for me kept stretching and sagging. I have it tied & held down in a way the Miorrix company would gasp from horror if they saw it!
The square stitch method I developed for my own beading in the early years and picking up a line at a tiem of beads did require learning just how much slack to give the line so as I sewed each 2 bead section into the next it took up the slack and came out with all gone once at the end of the line. Given soem beads , especially back then were not uniform and the slack allowed for that and kept the piece from buckling. It's kinda' not a way to bead I think a person would pick up on if not shown in person how to judge the slack. When my son was a teen he learned and did nice work. He just never continued with his craft work. Back then he learned to crochet, sew, bead and cross stitch. It was fun teaching him to do those things since I didn't have a daughter to spend time with.
I don't have a computer so I have my entire life on my iPhone including all my pictures. I am desperately trying to do a graphgan pattern from an image taken with my iPhone. There are no adjustments that can be made to the size of the images. Is there any way possible to have a graph and pattern done with iPhone images
Line,
I'm glad you won't let her ruin your life again. She really has no place in it. You're being the responsible one, by watching out for yourself and your family! That's the important thing. She's not important.
I agree, it's your stepfather's problem. I'm sorry he burdened you so much, particularly since none of it apparently sank in, so it was all for nothing, anyway.
I hope when she leaves him
again (because it seems to be a foregone conclusion that it
is going to happen again, don't you
think?), he won't bother you with it, because if he didn't listen
the first time, he won't listen when it happens again.
Some people simply never learn. Hope springs eternal, and
there's no telling them, reminding them or anything, that people
are never going to change. If he at all suspects she
hasn't entirely changed, he's likely hopeful enough that he'll be
able to make her change, and of course that never works.
He had no right at all to have burdened you, and I hope he won't try it again, but my guess is he will. He should talk to a professional. And even then he may never see the truth about her.
Ugh.
I'm sorry he's not
communicating with you simply because you won't let your mother
back into your life. That's not right, either, nor is it
very adult behavior. No matter what, he should respect
your decision, whether or not he agrees with it. You have
the right to disagree and to choose not to let such a toxic person
be around you or your family. And the way he tried to get
her back into your life, by sneakily surprising you, was wrong,
too. He should have asked for your permission, and he
should have been prepared to have been told "no."
Isn't it amazing how insensitive someone can be when they believe they're getting what they want? He's in for a bad time, and I hope you can convince him to get professional help when he comes crying to you...you don't need more stress!
Sending good thoughts your way that he sees the light quickly and stops putting it all on you when things don't work out, because it's not your problem.
I posted one FREE knitting book for Kindle for today...grab it before it's gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
Here's the circle (you must join to see posts):
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To read a particular post, simply click on it!
Ann Benson has a great book on tapestry crochet. I have made many projects with size12 pearl cotton an 11/0 Czech seed beads with beaded crochet, which is very easy. The hardest part is making sure the beginning chain is straight and flat, after that it is simple. There are tutorials on this technique. If you can work a chain and single crochet you will be fine! As for durability, I made a cell phone case which has not come apart after a few years of abuse! I would suggest scanning a simple photo into the pattern wizard and have it charted for beading. The key I came up with had Myuki beads, but you most likely can substitute Czech beads if you can find the colors as they are less expensive and are round as opposed to the Myuki which tend to be more tube shaped although they are the same size. I hope this helps.
Hi Melanie,
Your shift work you did sounded quite frustrating. I am not a phone person, don't like to talk on them and use mine mainly as my portable internet instead. If my tablet had phone availability I would do away with the phone itself.
I hate weaving ends in too. The vulture tapestry I have not used the end tuck method throughout it. Instead I tie the new thread to the old one, slip the ends close and continue away. Since it will have a suede backing attached to it and is a wall hanging I know it will not have extra stress on it and should never coem apart like a bracelt or something used daily would. Unfortunately there is nothing I can do with this particular piece excet tuck all warp threads in and hide them. I used Fireline for the warp which I will not do again for one this large. I prefer the Nymo so it can be tightened as neede once started. The Fireline does not have much give beyond the initial tightening and as the beads are worked in and it needs adjusting it has broke 3 threads I ahd to repair with beading in place. Was not a feat I enjoyed, but nmanaged it to the best of my ability. The edges were not as smooth going from side to side as I like on my loom work, but usiong the springs provided with the Mirrix loom it is hard to set them and keep them spread apart like I prefer. I will remodel this loom and change the springs for threaded bars next tiem I use it for bead work. Some folks don't like threaded bars, but for me the warps stay in place and can be tightened better. The spring for me kept stretching and sagging. I have it tied & held down in a way the Miorrix company would gasp from horror if they saw it!
The square stitch method I developed for my own beading in the early years and picking up a line at a tiem of beads did require learning just how much slack to give the line so as I sewed each 2 bead section into the next it took up the slack and came out with all gone once at the end of the line. Given soem beads , especially back then were not uniform and the slack allowed for that and kept the piece from buckling. It's kinda' not a way to bead I think a person would pick up on if not shown in person how to judge the slack. When my son was a teen he learned and did nice work. He just never continued with his craft work. Back then he learned to crochet, sew, bead and cross stitch. It was fun teaching him to do those things since I didn't have a daughter to spend time with.
I don't have a computer so I have my entire life on my iPhone including all my pictures. I am desperately trying to do a graphgan pattern from an image taken with my iPhone. There are no adjustments that can be made to the size of the images. Is there any way possible to have a graph and pattern done with iPhone images
Line,
I'm glad you won't let her ruin your life again. She really has no place in it. You're being the responsible one, by watching out for yourself and your family! That's the important thing. She's not important.
I agree, it's your stepfather's problem. I'm sorry he burdened you so much, particularly since none of it apparently sank in, so it was all for nothing, anyway.
I hope when she leaves him
again (because it seems to be a foregone conclusion that it
is going to happen again, don't you
think?), he won't bother you with it, because if he didn't listen
the first time, he won't listen when it happens again.
Some people simply never learn. Hope springs eternal, and
there's no telling them, reminding them or anything, that people
are never going to change. If he at all suspects she
hasn't entirely changed, he's likely hopeful enough that he'll be
able to make her change, and of course that never works.He had no right at all to have burdened you, and I hope he won't try it again, but my guess is he will. He should talk to a professional. And even then he may never see the truth about her.
Ugh.
I'm sorry he's not
communicating with you simply because you won't let your mother
back into your life. That's not right, either, nor is it
very adult behavior. No matter what, he should respect
your decision, whether or not he agrees with it. You have
the right to disagree and to choose not to let such a toxic person
be around you or your family. And the way he tried to get
her back into your life, by sneakily surprising you, was wrong,
too. He should have asked for your permission, and he
should have been prepared to have been told "no."Isn't it amazing how insensitive someone can be when they believe they're getting what they want? He's in for a bad time, and I hope you can convince him to get professional help when he comes crying to you...you don't need more stress!
Sending good thoughts your way that he sees the light quickly and stops putting it all on you when things don't work out, because it's not your problem.
I posted one FREE knitting book for Kindle for today...grab it before it's gone! (Note: you do not need to have an actual Kindle. If you have a smartphone, you can download a Kindle reader app for FREE...if all you have is a PC, you can download to your PC...and I believe there may also be a way now of completely bypassing any kind of reader app to read directly online - though please don't quote me on that, as I'm not sure. I find the PC reader to be quite decent for pattern content...since I don't own a Kindle, I can't say how well it works...but I would think a smaller screen would make patterns kind of difficult to read.)
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