Christmas spider

For a start I hate spiders, they make my hair stand on end. However if I had your dilemma I would take a smaller crystal bead and bead around with AB crystal seed beads. Other wise known as a beaded bead. You would get a textured body. You would have to experiment to find what size core bead you needed to get to 12mm. The size 8 you have might work out.

Shirley

In message , Linda D. writes

Hi Shirley,

Thanks for the suggestion. I didn't feel I had time to start attempting to make beaded beads, and I finally came up with an idea late Sunday afternoon.

I told DH that I was going to the craft store and wasn't coming home until I found a substitution for the 12 mm. bead. I remembered the sales associate saying in the morning, "I have some glass beads, but they would be too heavy", and we brushed that idea aside. I returned to the same store and found round glass crystals in a 10 mm size and a

6 mm. size. The spider only uses two glass beads, so they aren't heavy at all. Dropping down from the 12 mm and 8 mm makes the spider smaller, so I made the legs shorter. They look great!

Now as for hating spiders. The reason I'm making the Christmas Spiders is #1 the legend that goes along with them, and #2 because my youngest niece works in a pet store and had a plan to scare the heck out of her sister with the shedded skin of a tarantula, but didn't do it because she was afraid her sister would have a heart attack. My little spiders are at least "pretty"...(grin)

take care, L> For a start I hate spiders, they make my hair stand on end.

Pleased to know you have got it sorted.

My fear of spiders began when my two older brothers used to get them out of the outdoor loo. I was about 2 at the time and they used to drop them down my back. Shirley

In message , Linda D. writes

what is the legend that goes with the Christmas spider?? I'm not a big fan of spiders.. but would really like to learn about this.....