What if you were insane to begin with? Is it okay to start with 11/0's then ? :o)
Arondelle
(I know, people who are good at one thing may not be good at grammar and punctuation, but when you're selling via text, good grammar and punctuation are important!)
Thank you all for answering me and Alia, thanks for the welcome! I can't quite picture in my mind, Dr. Sooz, how you maintain the even tension of the warp threads if you're holding them in your hands, unless you tie them all in a knot and hold that? I wish I could come over and watch for awhile. I'd bring the coffee if ya want...
I find that advice - to try it before I invest - to be kind of funny, since I do tend to go overboard. Do we know each other? I feel like a cartoon rat attracted to all those glittery things and find myself gathering, hoarding, even to the extent of buying pounds of beads on EBay and separating them to stretch my post employment budget. One box becams one case, then two and three, and Oooh look at THIS bead!! Ohmygosh look at THOSE!! (intake of breath, palpitations) I need purples..
I see the weaving and amulet bags and crochet necklaces and have to practically jumpstart my heart. I see the lampwork or whatever this torch meets glass and becomes amazing scenes and faces and color combinations is called - and I am stunned to silence! I've spent a lot of years behind the computer monitor working for someone else, using creativity based on pixels and points, bezels and curves and three letter extensions. Being freed from the daily grind of that, I can't tell you - finding this group as a bonus - I feel like a prisoner who's been released from death row! I want to do everything, try everything, learn, learn, learn. This takes up so much less space than my looms and wheel and pottery stuff, knitting, crocheting, mosaics and all my other endeavors always have. It's win, win!
I wish I could absorb all the available info at once and see all there is to see. When I'm not studying all the links (thank you so much, Sooz) and google searching info and reading books about it I'm spending hours and hours a day with these smooth, shiny, multi-hued lovelies. Making one thing after another. Selling these, giving away these. Beads make smiles everywhere they go, like magic. Now you think I'm totally goofy, right?
Oh well, the time has come to fess up. My name is Christy and I am a beadaholic.
It could turn you sane .. couldnt it? Not worth the risk in my not so humble opinion. But I am a firm believer in trying things for myself.. so.. If you want to .. go for it! what do you have to loose.. oh.. we covered that already. Diana
Doing a portrait in beads is much harder than doing one with cross stitch, because in cross stitch you can do diagonals and blended tones (one leg of the cross in one color, and one in another).
Tina
Tina - have you tried it and it didn't work? I'm interested. You're right, I haven't seen the range of color in beads that exists in threads, but I haven't been to bead shows where the whole gamut of colors are available, so i don't know about that. What about removing the color from the photo and doing sepia, duotone or greyscale? Ooh - or purple and bluescale or aquascale or mmmm coralscale or autumntones scale - Somebody stop me!!
Get a Mirrex with the shed lifter. You can use it for real weaving as well as bead weaving. Get the extensions, too. I love mine. It's fast, too.
Mary
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Mary Shafer :
]Get a Mirrex with the shed lifter. You can use it for real weaving as ]well as bead weaving. Get the extensions, too. I love mine. It's ]fast, too. ] ]Mary
when did you arrive in my bead group??????????
[giggling and running ----------------------------->]----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
WOW does that ever look good! I hate to take work away from people, but I sure wish I could see a close-up of this loom to see if I could make one. It looks like copper tubing, wing nuts and the like. $237 before shipping is way out of my range right now. (So is $100!)
I haven't tried it, but when I've seen it by experienced people it even looks "lumpy" (with a few exceptions, and when the beads are tiny).
If you look at cross stitch patterns, though, it shows several ways of making the stitch that effectively blend the EXACT colors (threads) that are being worked with. Very different from finding a third bead that doesn't have any extra chemical/color changes from the other two.
Tina
I was wondering what the C was the initial for...
Welcome, Christy.
And off-loom beadweaving doesn't use warp and weft threads.
You work with a single thread at a time (occasionally with two threads and two needles) and encorporate beads one or a few at a time. Kind of like crochet, where you work one thread into a fabric by adding on rows of stitches to a base row.
I recommend check>Oh well, the time has come to fess up. My name is Christy and I am a >beadaholic.
vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Mary Shafer :
]You can run but you can't hide, Vicki.
i'm finding that out!
----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)
i get that feeling from you sooz!!! :D you remind me artistically of my mom, who works in bronze and gourds and she can paint and do all the things i can't do... and she always talks about how amazed she is that i an sit down and do the things i do... she is asymetrical, and i am so totally symetrical... she likes freeform, and i like knowing just about everything i am going to do before i do it. i dont even start on something usually until i have thought about it for three or four days and planned out step by step what i will do. my roots are in origami, i think thats why.... but i can see you and her getting together and having a very similar way of thinking, artistically. i have always gotten that 'vibe' from you!! :D
clp, the free form stuff is not loom weaving, loom weaving can only be done on a loom.... i think what people are refering to with free form etc is like peyote stitch and brick stitch and some of the other non loom forms.... they are very different, but one of them does look a lot like looming when u r done..... i think its brick stitch, but i am not sure, its either brick or square, i only loom and do peyote so far... :) yes!! buy books!! try stuff!!! i recommend u check out the library, i get all the best books there for free, and i learn tons from them. :)best luck!
alia :)
thats right, it is harder. but i do it anyway, and practicing a pseudo backstitch even. here, have a look at one of my fave's :D
alia :)
Alia that is what I'm talking about! You can do it! Did you make that from a pattern, a photo or what? How lovely. ( Nice to find another Izzard fan, too. "Do you have a flag?" "Cake or Death?")
o sooz, you make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside :D
hey, i just brought some samples to a store and asked for a job teaching classes and/or as a sale's girl.... god i hope they hire me, keep me in your thoughts.... you all did know that i am unemployed at the moment right?? so keep me in your prayers eh? i need lots of money and free time ;)
alia :)
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003 20:32:43 -0400, alia wrote (in message ):
I hope that you get the job you're looking for, and that they are very good to you. Being unemployed sucks.
But, as for the money and free time - be careful what you wish for. I have plenty of money, and plenty of free time, but you wouldn't want what it cost me to get both those things.
Kathy N-V
When you work off-loom, there are no warp threads. Only looming has warp and weft, off-loom work usually has a single thread.
Yes, they're off-loom stitches. Not all weaving is done on looms. You can get a good lesson on peyote here:
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