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i love fiddly things like these and i googled it as you suggested and have watched a tutorial over and over, but i think until i try it i wont get it. i need to get some stiff beading needles and some of that tigertail stuff, cos i have been itching to use the seed beads i have been donated :)
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Hi Su,
I dident get it at first either and made it by making loads of beady charms on wire then threading them on i think this is why it took me so long lol but then i read the whole article through properly(I am impatient when it comes to trying new things). The needles i used where the very long ones that open all the way down very flexy and then some smaller ones also flexi they need to have some movement because as you go it gets harder and harder to thread the thread through the beads and the fringes.:)
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Hi Emerald,
I use the oval twisted wire needles, as they are very flexible and they have a little twisty 'bit' in the top, where you thread it, that keeps the thread in place. I hope its OK for me to post this?, but this is where I got my 'recipie' on how to do the bracelet I mentioned before.
http://www.gjbeads.co.uk/files/user/pdf/3.pdf
:ta: for the info on the price you sell them for, as I was wondering what sort of price you charged for that amount of work! You've inspired me to have a proper go at it, 'cos it looks so lovely.
:X
Jules x
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Thank you for those tips on needles Di, Jules, i cant even remember where i got the long ones from think i ordered them by mistake, to reduce the time and the amount of beads if you look at the black and grey ones these are just 1 10mm bead with a liitle crimp at the end and a few strand fringes this one i wear almost constantly with a few other elasticated bracelets, i am a serial stacker lol, its a good way of using up a section of beads or even by the bead mixs they have some great little beads in them, well they do where i get them from anyway lol. Have fun x
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ty guyss, i already use those fine twisted ones for when i am making my bead strings so it looks like its just the tigertail i need :D
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Ooh more info, Yay! I'm itching to give this a go...
But I have other stuff I should be getting on with....
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These are beautiful, I love the purple one best of all, its my colours.
I might just be tempted to get my seedy beadies out again and give it a go.
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I got my seed beads out a week or so ago thinking that I'd make a couple of thick multistrand twisted necklaces and use some of them up. Some of them were incredibly expensive - especially the 18 carat gold plated delicas - and they're just laying there doing nothing.
BUT after having to perform the Hoover Maneouvre three times in quick succession, they are now back in their cupboard.
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Well at least the hoover was let out of the cupboard Di ;)
Mine only sees me when my kiln gets hoovered out :-D