Questions on beading essentials

[kelluvpearls]

Oh, that's great! We're all here, cheering you on and available when questions arise!

Thank you Pattye, just finished restringing my peach potato pearls, I hope to get better with more practice. I used the shell colour beader's secret., get colour match. The big needles are excellent and the thread thickness is great, able to pass through the pearls twice with double thickness. I did a few mistakes but luckily I was able to untie the knot. I will have many more questions later on.

Thank you to PD for the excellent tutorial sticky.

 

[kelluvpearls]

JP here's the finished product!

 

[kelluvpearls]

Neck shot.

 

[Katbran]

Hey Well Done !!! How exciting! You should have seen my shocking first attempt lol You did really well !!

 

[pattye]

Oh, WOW! Those peach pearls look just fabulous (the stringing, too) and you are so pretty in them!!! I agree, PD's tutorial is absolutely awesome!

 

[CathyKeshi]

Nice job, Kelluvpearls!

 

[kelluvpearls]

Thank you for the encouragement Pattye and Katbran, it's not my first knotting attempt but I haven't tried knotting for several years now except the failed Tahitianbracelet, hold this one holds up.

 

[Marianne]

Love the peach color on you, Kelluvpearls! Bet you will be knotting a lot more now you have Beader's Secret

 

[kelluvpearls]

Thank you CathyKeshi and Marianne.

 

[JerseyPearl]

Really fantastic job!! Doesn't it fee great to make something so pretty? I agree that the soft peach color is a good one for your skin tone. What's next? I see those rondelles in the upper left of your photo....

 

[Tucs]

Very pretty, kelluvpearls!!

 

[kelluvpearls]

Thanks JP and Tucs. However I need to restring! The third knot (the starting third) came loose and there's now a huge gap there, this seems to be an ongoing issue with my stringing! Plu the other knots are a bit loose, oh well I'll try again soon.

 

[pattye]

You all have covered the beading essentials really well! I would just add thin, long straight pins. Sometimes if the thread starts to kink, slipping a pin in the loop keeps it from knotting(twisting back) on itself and I can continue to carefully pull the thread through. I also use a pin when doubling back, at the side of a pearl with a tight knot where the needle will be exiting. (I very seldom ream out a pearl to double back, but the fit can be pretty tight.)

As GemGeek mentioned elsewhere, a 10X loupe~because there are times we need a really good look at what's what, no matter what kind of knotting, beading, pearl checking we're doing!

Kelluvpearls, sorry to hear about the redo; it happens. You'll just get better and better~

 

[kelluvpearls]

Pattye I will try again today, thank you for your support!

 

[JerseyPearl]

If anyone is close enough to notice your slipped knots, they had better notice your eyes first! But I tend to be a bit of a perfectionist and totally understand the need to fix.

 

[kelluvpearls]

I am doing a test run with 5 pearls, I glued the quadruple thread knot, hopefully it will hold this time. I will be stress testing it first. JP the gap was like 1 cm long so I must redo the necklace.
What do you think of combining the peach with these flesh colour pearls?
I am not sure what I am going do with the apatities, here I muxed it with some pink tourmalines; maybe another tin cup type but with metallic multicolor pearls like Ckricketts' arrangement?

 

[Katbran]

First of all - don't worry about the knotting .. it takes awhile to get the tension the same and the knots the same size.

For the most part you are the only one that would notice. I've seen 1/4 inch gaps in $10,000 + ropes where it must have stretched.

So are you thinking of using the pink and green with the peach pearls?

 

[kelluvpearls]

Hi Katbran
Thank you for your encouragement!
The gem rondelles aren't for the peach pearls, just playing around with the colour combo at the moment,

 

[Katbran]

Those little rondelles make a cute bracelet ... just slide a couple of little gold beads on and clasp the end Nice little stacking bracelet !

 

[kelluvpearls]

Those little rondelles make a cute bracelet ... just slide a couple of little gold beads on and clasp the end Nice little stacking bracelet !

Yes I was thinking of using Elasticity so no clasps, how about a few of Jac's keshis? Separate colour or mix? Maybe one of each colour and a mix. thank Katbran for the prompts!