Summer Bead-A-Long Update #6

My first beading attempt didn't go so well. I actually had quite a few rows done, but kept having difficulties with stitch count and beads moving, etc. So I moved on to a new project and a different method of beading.


Now I am using Oral-B Superfloss and placing the beads as I go. I found a great video tutorial on The Knit Girllls site.


This shawl is going much quicker, but it may be due to the fact that the beginning was solely stockinette :o)


Each bead is placed individually on the knit stitch as its being knitted.


This past Wednesday was the planning meeting for my local Knitters' Guild. I volunteered to teach a class at the October meeting this year on beading. I've been doing so much research for these projects for the Bead-A-Long and trying different techniques so when beading came up as a suggestion I piped up that I would do it. I am supervisor of my department at work and often teach classes to a wide range of people on the equipment we use and how to use it. Its not my favorite thing to do, standing up in front of a crowd and speaking, but I am fully capable of it.

I would really like to have a few completed projects to show for the meeting. I tried casting on for Entomology again last night and tried 3 times to get started and it just wasn't working out ... I am on the hunt for a new pattern to use with this yarn and the 1200+ beads I've already strung on! Entomology is a great pattern, its very well written and the instructions are more than clear ... it and I are just not getting along.



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