Crochet hooks

I made up my own purse pattern with seed beads. Cannot remember the size hook I used. However, this is what you need to think about:

The thread has to be able to go through the beads. The hook is immaterial, except that it needs to be a size that makes a neat crochet with the thread you've chosen.

The beads are crocheted as you go. The hook doesn't go through the beads. You string the beads on the thread. So you have to have a bead with a hole large enough to accomodate the chosen thread.

Dianne

Daisy wrote:

As Dianne said, you need to be able to get the bead onto the yarn. Although I have never tried it myself, I believe that you must string all the beads on beforehand. A really nice book I saw in my library was titled Bead Crochet by Bethany Barry. It has nice projects and how-to's in there. Have fun! Diane

Yep . . . and it's a tedious but mundane job. :-) One of those jobs you do when you want to zone out. I've done several beaded purses and we're talking hundreds (if not thousands) of beads put on the string/yarn before you even begin to crochet. But it is so very pretty when finished.

You can bead anything you crochet, providing the yarn will go through the bead. There may be another method, but I did my own thing . . . which was placing the bead on a wrong side row. That puts the bead on the right side. Dianne

Some people, for some projects, put the beads on matching beading thread and crochet along with regular yarn, slipping the bead into place as needed. I seem to recall someone stringing all those beads and keeping them in order by piling them in a canning jar.

Dora