dotcomdtcm

Help! I want to sew a bead on the points of each snowball block in an art quilt. Do I just sew them on one at a time or is there some secret way to do this easier? Thanks!!

magpie

Depending how big your blocks are, can you end the stitch on back and run thread through the edge of the seam fabric to the next corner?

dotcomdtcm

I'll try it! Yeah

NikkiLu

I don't know - sorry - but wonder how in the world that a quilter sewed on so many on a quilt that I saw in Paducah at the Quilters Museum a few years ago. All of the quilts were fastened/displayed on the walls - but one spectacular quilt was just hanging from the ceiling and had ropes around it so that you could walk around it. That is because, sewn on the back were 120,000+ Svorski crystals!!!!!

Yes, it was almost unbelievable.

dotcomdtcm

I'm starting with 72 beads! I really want to start using my bead collection. In the new year. How about a beaded flower block swap for the first day of spring?

Theresa

I heard to knot the thread every 5 beads or so, so if one comes lose, you are not dealing with a huge string of them coming undone. Makes sense to me!

Lilaciris

I'm a beader and one of the techniques used in beading is to string a number of beads, say 4 or 5, and then take a stitch, keeping them in line. If you're trying to completely fill an area, this would probably be the best way to do it.

Hope the instructions are clear enough.

dotcomdtcm

Thank you. I just added one bead at a time, running a thread through the seam with little stitches that do not show. Now I am hooked on beading. I have lots pf beads from when my girls were hooked on making earrings. The bead district in NYC is intoxicating. I was surprised that I had to buy 25 bead needles at a time, but they seem to bend easily. Perhaps that is why. Please show us some of your work. TY