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TECHNIQUE: Using Beads
S 5 / Stitchery & Lace
The bead method: use beads that fit on your crochet hook. The beads are put on
picots that are used to connect rings or chains. Put a bead on the hook, stick
it through the picot you want to connect to, slip the bead over the picot and
then connect your ring/chain as usual. The picots you slip beads over have to
be longer than usual. I hope you understand what I mean.
The best way is to put bead on hook; pull picot through bead (now you are
hooked through the picot but NOT the bead; pull the other thread through as if
you were making an ordinary join. If you have small beads you _could_ pull
the picot through the beads with a needle threader!
Another way is to string all the beads on the shuttle thread in advance. then
you just slide one up when needed, and work around it. Easy to do, hard to
describe. What you get is a bead _inside_ a picot, as if it were a knot on
the holding cord. I like this look the best.
You can also string them on the _ball_ thread. Then you get the bead on the
_tip_ of the picot.
And you _can_ use all three techniques in the same piece (as long as you've
strung enough on the ball & shuttle threads), if you get really crazy!
Now, waitasec, how does stringing the bead on the ball thread make it end up
on the tip of the picot? I mean, if the picot's on the chain, couldn't it end
up *in* the picot? And if the picot's on the ring, then how does the bead end
up anywhere on the picot from the ball thread?
PS _THINK_ about it: the ball thread forms the stitches when you're chaining.
The shuttle thread is the holding thread (the inside thread, if you will). So
if the beads are on the ball thread, when you "flip" the knot, bingo, they're
on a picot. If they're on the _shuttle_ thread, they'll end up _inside_ the
picot.
OTH -- and this can blow your mind to consider -- if the beads are already ON
the shuttle thread, and you're making RINGS, the beads will be _inside_ the
picot, because the knot, when flipped, forms from the part of the thread over
your left hand, rather than the thread straight off the shuttle. Try it!
(sooner than you'd planned!) You'll see what I mean.
can understand. I thought you were saying that beads on the ball thread can
go on picots on the ring, and I couldn't figure out *how* you would do that.
But on the chain, yes, I understand how that works.