Peyote Woes, help request

I am! Im looking over the other tutorials trying to make heads or tails out of some of the other stitches. Peyote is relaxing. It looks good with no pattern or random or ... What are you working your tubular peyote around? A book I have suggested working it around rope. What sort of rope do you suppose they meant? Thank you for your kind offer, again. RCBers are right up there with quilters when it comes to big hearts. Diana

Thick! A makeup pencil is good too. Any fat pencil..... ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

I use it, with some increasing and decreasing, to make bowls.

Tina

Try linen thread. It's easily available and the stuff the Egyptians used is still around. It lasts for ages in saddlery so it should last in beadwork too.

-Su

I use knitting needles. The pointy end makes it easy to slip the finished tube off and the length gives a lot of room to work. I have some that are teflon coated and some that were my mom's, they all seem to work and you get a very wide choice of diameters.

-Su

What does one do with the finished product? Diana

Necklaces, bracelets, straps for bags, hats, brooches, pterodactyls...

-Su

:-) Diana

Not everywhere. The so-called "waxed linen" here is either cotton, polyester or a combination of the two.

Nylon beading cords are available in several colors and sizes, as welll as Nymo, Silamide, Conso and Mastic. And hemp.... Some of the fine hemp can be used for weaving large-holed beads (like pony and tile beads). I usually use Nymo (off a spool) for peyote st, but may "someday" get some thin Spiderline/Fireline to try for it (smallest here is 10# test, and not always that small). Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Oops (a great description of my typing and my fav AutoCAD command) I have not been doing it around anything. If I did it around rope, I'd use fairly large rope and just leave it in for stability.

I'm using up a bunch of inexpensive blue seeds. I'm going to turn a couple of them to twine around each other in a necklace.

Oh, I did try working it around a needle case. Fun and quick - not sure if I should do it around the cap, too. Feels like it might slip off.

Like the other ideas, too -- both what to work around and the suggested uses.

Vicki V

You don't leave the pencil in. It's just to get you started. (Some people put in a chain after they're finished, or some SoftFlex.) ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Me too. I cant wait to see a beaded ptyerodactyl. You said you would Su! Diana

Thread, not cord. First result in Google for 'linen thread':

-Su

LOL. Sounds like a dare!

Ok, when I have a few milliseconds to spare. It's on my list. Along with beading the boat. I love the idea of a 70' boat covered in beads. I doubt Mike will go along with it but we do need a bit more ballast.

-Su

I generally just use my finger or thumb.... If it's too small to do that, I don't use anything. Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Ok, if her dare wasn't clear enough....I'll bite. I double dog dare you to make a ptyrodactyl.

Linen thread isn't readily available HERE, either. By here, I mean a close-by store I can walk in and look at stuff. At nearly $8 per spool, plus s&h, mail-order isn't the way I go for something I'm not sure I want.

I haven't seen it at any of the LBSs, even in ones with a good selection of threads and cords, WallyWorld doesn't carry anything like that (of course), ditto Target & KMart... I suppose it's possible the quilting fabric store has it, but I haven't been there for almost a year (too dangerous...). I still have silk thread from ~20 years ago that I might try "someday" (left over from making my wedding dress; used for topstitching)-- still can't snap it, and it has a lovely sheen. Kaytee "Simplexities" on

If I wanted linen thread it would mean a trip to the nearest major city if they had it. An hour-ish to Manchester, and more than that to anywhere else, if I drove.

If it's buttonhole silk it might be too heavy, but you have to use what you have. I try to buy locally but after visiting five shops in town to find simple boxes for shipping, and having to have Mike drive me to the next village to their post office, I've given up on doing anything much except online. I have much better luck online although I hate not being able to see, touch and fondle the stuff I want to buy.

-Su

How about contacting the online store and asking for a small sample before you buy? I'm sure they'd be happy to oblige.

Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce