Sharing tips for beading

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kalera Stratton :

]Cloth diapers are also good for this...

yes! enough texture to keep them from rolling, but nothing to have the needle to catch on.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

(Jewelry) newest creations: ----------- The measure of the menace of a man is not what hardware he carries, but what ideas he believes.-- Jeff Jordan

Bird's eye? (instead of gauze, do they even still make the gauze ones?).

Tina

I don't do seed beading, so don't work with the needle, but I use a shoebox lid, and a washcloth that has a "cordoroy" type texture to it, and I dump my little piles onto it (ew...that sounded *GROSS*)

Mary

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kalera Stratton :

]And bright white so you can see every little bead... well, unless ]they're white ones.

absolutely! when i was in Bremerton with Jamie and getting the two little girls started making their bracelets, we found the cookie sheets, but when i said "dishtowel" their mother came back with ones in multiple loud colors and terry cloth. and a blank look when i said they needed to be white and relatively smooth. we finally settled on pillowcases for that night.

----------- @vicki [SnuggleWench] (Books)

(Jewelry) newest creations: ----------- The measure of the menace of a man is not what hardware he carries, but what ideas he believes.-- Jeff Jordan