Last week I found myself thinking about the fabric beaded necklaces ... adding beads and fibers for some variations. I also wanted to use 1" balls instead of the styrofoam so I could evaulation the difference. So, I went online and ordered a 'box of balls' from Casey's Wood Products. They shipped them amazingly fast and they arrived on Wednesday.
Yesterday afternoon I pulled out the 'oblong scarves' container and made some selections for the next batch of 'fabric beaded necklaces'. This morning, I dived right in ... the general game plan being to create at 80-10 sleeves and then I'd pull out the yarns, fibers and beads and embellish either before or during insertion and tieing of the beads. I proceeded right along; creating 8 sleeves; each taking a little over an hour (cutting and handling scraves are a quite abit more difficult than standard fabric. Then, this evening, I started to insert beads into the first sleeve.
WOOPS ... It's too small. So, I tried the next sleeve, and YEP, it's too SMALL also. Tried a third, just because I can be a die-hard, with no difference. I pulled up the computer and looked up my all instructions. Gosh, I blew it ... the strips are to be cut 4" crosswise, not 4" at the edge, which creates a 3" strip. So ... I threw the 8 strips away, and tomorrow, I'll start over.
Take my advice, read the directions before you start your project ... even if it's one you've done before.
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