… so I thought I’d better put something up tonight. I’ve been working on a bag for another small bag exchange. I decided to knit rather than weave this time – knitted cotton lace, of course. I’m using 10/3 crochet cotton on 1.75 mm (US #00) needles. It looked a bit dull so I added some beads. The bottom is a standard ‘swirly’ doily centre with a few decreases to make it ‘cup’ rather than lie flat. Then I switched to Arrow Lace (from one of Barbara Walker’s Treasuries), adding a few seed beads to accent the pattern. I’ve finished the beading (unless I decide to add some to the border) but I haven’t decided where to go from here, except that I’m going to need eyelets for a drawstring. I’ll think about that tomorrow. The scan isn’t very good – the lace needs stretching and the beads don’t show up, so I needed to include a detail scan.
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Jenny, it’s lovely. Did you have to break the thread when you decided to add the beads? I haven’t ventured into beaded knitting yet.
Thanks, Kate. No, I added the beads to the next stitch by putting a fine crochet hook through the bead, pulling the stitch through and putting it back on the needle, then knitting the stitch as usual. I did a swatch with the beads threaded on the yarn, but they didn’t seem to sit as well as with both sides of the stitch through the bead – perhaps a size mismatch?
Pretty! I just figured out how to knit with beads today. Great minds and all that :-)
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