iPads
Well, I think I’m about a third of the way through visiting the 3rd Reveal participants . I’d like to thank everyone who has left comments here :) Very much appreciated!
So, what have I been doing since Saturday ? Saturday and Sunday I spent visiting family. My sister, who just bought an iPad, needed some basic how-to information. More iPad wrangling on Monday and Tuesday when my sister-in-law asked me to help her mother out with a problem she had been having with Facebook on iPad. All these goings on with iPads and I don’t even have one myself (yet!).
Kumihimo
I was finally able to sit down on Tuesday evening and try out a new kit I had purchased from Over the Rainbow. The kit contains everything you need (baring the disk) to make a beaded kumihimo necklace or bracelet.
I’ve made a fair number of kumihimo necklaces and bracelets before but I’ve never added beads. I thought a kit would be the best way to learn how to add the beads correctly.
This is what I ended up with.
The end caps are glued on with Zap Gel. I’m not entirely confident with gluing the caps on, I’m more comfortable with mechanical means of securing the caps on. With my second project below I tried a combination of glue and weaving eyepins into the beginning and end of the cord. By embedding the eyepin into the centre of the woven cord and hooking the eye of the pin through two or more strands I felt that it was a more secure finish than just glue.
A dab of glue, the bead cone, bead and a wrapped loop finished both ends. Definitely will be making more of these in the future, perhaps for my soon to be opened store online.
The next project I’m going to try a 12 or 16 beaded thread kumihimo. You can design your own braid with this tool, an interactive designer from Craft Design Online.
