I don’t know if this question has been asked. I bought some cool beads I wanted to knit into my scarf. Can it be done, and how?
In some cases you thread the beads onto the yarn and bring them up your working yarn to place where you need to. Sometimes you can just use a tiny gauge crochet hook and draw the next stitch on the left through the bead, then put that stitch back on the left needle, then knit or purl it as instructed…
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Ill try the easy way next time. but for now I will try the hook method. This was a spare of the moment ideah.
Threading the beads onto the yarn may seem like the easy idea, but I actually think the crochet hook is better. Threading them on, you have to make sure that you have the right number of beads threaded and if it requires a lot it can kind of be a pain to have all those beads on your yarn. It’s also not the easiest thing to thread a whole bunch of beads onto yarn, especially if they are loose beads.
A tip for using loose beads: put them in the little ziploc baggies that holds extra buttons when you buy a new shirt.
I was allmost done with my first ball of yarn so I just unraveled it and put them on that way. I am not making the beads perfect. I kind of like them just random through out the scarf. I looks cool. The only thind is that I lost me tapestry needle. I buy them and loose them. So I was using the end of a needle from my sewing machine.
Lily Chin has a great book out which is devoted to crocheting and knitting with beads. I’ve recently become addicted to using beads in my knitting and crocheting and I love the look. I’ve knitted three hats with beads worked in and crocheted a lariat (pattern from the Chin book) made only of silk thread and bugle beads…I pre-strung all 1450 beads on the thread. Actually for me the stringing process is no problem…you get into a rhythm and it moves along much faster than you might think. I have more bead related projects in the works also. It may not float everyone’s boat but give it a try and see what you think.
Good luck.
Chantal
Some of Lily Chin’s techniques can be seen here.