I have to say Thank You for your Bead Embroidery steps & edging, very informative. I just started to do bead embroidery and I am finding I absolutely love it. Love your Creative Process.
Mani: I have a couple of questions, but first I wanted to tell you about something lol. I, too, have eyesight issues. I have a disease I was born with called Neurofibromatosis or NF2. It affects nerves, eyes and hearing mostly. Anyway, I was in Temu looking for beads and cabochons, etc. and I saw a pair of "glasses". They are really a jewelers loop, but are shaped like eye glasses. I'm supposed to get them in the mail today. I've had laser surgery, but I think my eyesight has gone bad again due to the NF. I have no clue if they will work, but I'm gonna try. I gotta try something. I'm too stubborn to stop beading. Now that I've started, I really love it. Ok, now after forever, lol--the questions. I used to make steampunk jewelry, etc. I have cabachons from that time. How do you incorporate a cabachon that has no holes in it? I realize you could use glue, etc.; however, I don't know if glue would ruin the faux suede I would use? I'm an idea person. I'm also part Cherokee and live an hour's distance from the Res in North Carolina mountains. Ok, that was the glue question. Another, if I use a piece of faux suede as a base to my cuff bracelet I think it is called. I want to place my design on it. I want to fold over the suede and use either a tiny zipper or some fastner so I can have it as a "hidey place" for money, a card, whatever. If I do this, should I line it? So the back threads don't get caught up in the money, card, whatever? 3rd question. When you put together your design and it is on the felt stuff, and you want to place that on a piece of leather, do you take scissors and cut the felt around the design before attaching it to the leather? I have taken enough of your time. I'll leave you alone for a bit. Thanx for any words of wisdom you may have. --Carolyn
Good luck with the glasses. I hope they work. Faux swede. I used it all the time. With a bracelet if you get it wet the swede will stretch. Not as much as leather. lol. Use it all you like. just let the people know who are getting it that it stretches when wet. The thread question. if you were beading correctly you should not have threads that the money could get caught on. The most you should be traveling on the back is a couple of beads. Cabs are easy. I have a video on how to attach cabs . You can also make a bead cadge for them and before closing the cadge add them and close and tighten so they stay in place. Think beads for the back (faux Swade is good too) and then bead in the shape of the cab making smaller and smaller rings or you can create like a lace around the sides. just make sure you put the cab in prior to the bead work getting to small. The felt back should be cut as small as possible before attaching it to another piece. you may need to add a bead row around it to cover the felt and uses a marker to change the color to match your project. You can also make the felt just a bit bigger around the work and make it part of the design. Sew it onto the back close to where the beaded area is so the felt sticks out some. This works best if you are using colored felt to match what you are beading or the background item it is going on. my biggest advice to you is to have fun. The threads can be cut and beads salvaged etc. The lost of some felt, thread or a backing will not be a ton. It is a forgiving craft. Megwitch.
@ManieMartinez Thank you so much. Are you Witch or Wiccan? I'm not Wiccan, but I do respect their beliefs as I do all. I'm a grey witch and have been for 30 years. I designed and made jewelry not only steampunk but for witches as well. I've gone thru and pulled out my box of cabachons. Have a look.
I have to say Thank You for your Bead Embroidery steps & edging, very informative. I just started to do bead embroidery and I am finding I absolutely love it. Love your Creative Process.
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you!
Doodle notes notebook! Great idea! Thanks Manie!
Your Welcome. I also put some notes in concerning my thought process for the doodle so I remember what I was thinking.
Beautiful
Thank You.
Mani: I have a couple of questions, but first I wanted to tell you about something lol. I, too, have eyesight issues. I have a disease I was born with called Neurofibromatosis or NF2. It affects nerves, eyes and hearing mostly. Anyway, I was in Temu looking for beads and cabochons, etc. and I saw a pair of "glasses". They are really a jewelers loop, but are shaped like eye glasses. I'm supposed to get them in the mail today. I've had laser surgery, but I think my eyesight has gone bad again due to the NF. I have no clue if they will work, but I'm gonna try. I gotta try something. I'm too stubborn to stop beading. Now that I've started, I really love it. Ok, now after forever, lol--the questions. I used to make steampunk jewelry, etc. I have cabachons from that time. How do you incorporate a cabachon that has no holes in it? I realize you could use glue, etc.; however, I don't know if glue would ruin the faux suede I would use? I'm an idea person. I'm also part Cherokee and live an hour's distance from the Res in North Carolina mountains. Ok, that was the glue question. Another, if I use a piece of faux suede as a base to my cuff bracelet I think it is called. I want to place my design on it. I want to fold over the suede and use either a tiny zipper or some fastner so I can have it as a "hidey place" for money, a card, whatever. If I do this, should I line it? So the back threads don't get caught up in the money, card, whatever? 3rd question. When you put together your design and it is on the felt stuff, and you want to place that on a piece of leather, do you take scissors and cut the felt around the design before attaching it to the leather? I have taken enough of your time. I'll leave you alone for a bit. Thanx for any words of wisdom you may have. --Carolyn
Good luck with the glasses. I hope they work. Faux swede. I used it all the time. With a bracelet if you get it wet the swede will stretch. Not as much as leather. lol. Use it all you like. just let the people know who are getting it that it stretches when wet.
The thread question. if you were beading correctly you should not have threads that the money could get caught on. The most you should be traveling on the back is a couple of beads.
Cabs are easy. I have a video on how to attach cabs . You can also make a bead cadge for them and before closing the cadge add them and close and tighten so they stay in place. Think beads for the back (faux Swade is good too) and then bead in the shape of the cab making smaller and smaller rings or you can create like a lace around the sides. just make sure you put the cab in prior to the bead work getting to small.
The felt back should be cut as small as possible before attaching it to another piece. you may need to add a bead row around it to cover the felt and uses a marker to change the color to match your project. You can also make the felt just a bit bigger around the work and make it part of the design. Sew it onto the back close to where the beaded area is so the felt sticks out some. This works best if you are using colored felt to match what you are beading or the background item it is going on.
my biggest advice to you is to have fun. The threads can be cut and beads salvaged etc. The lost of some felt, thread or a backing will not be a ton. It is a forgiving craft.
Megwitch.
@ManieMartinez Thank you so much. Are you Witch or Wiccan? I'm not Wiccan, but I do respect their beliefs as I do all. I'm a grey witch and have been for 30 years. I designed and made jewelry not only steampunk but for witches as well. I've gone thru and pulled out my box of cabachons. Have a look.
@@ManieMartinez well I can't send the pic. Crap. Lol
Lovvvved this very interested in bead embroidery please continue with this bracelet ❤️❤️❤️thank you
Your welcome. That plan is to do just that. Walk you through the bracelet