Elise, if you bead "around the corner" to the back, the beads will be a
balanced/tight setting for the cab, and it won't matter if the kind of
interfacing is premo or not. The people I know up here are not all that
picky.

Tina


"EL" wrote in message
...
The one in Beadwork is attached to a brickstich base, which is kinda neat.

But my real question about backing is whether or not Lacy's Stiff Stuff is
worth ordering, since I can't find it locally and since it seems to be so
highly recommended in most sets of directions I've read.

Elise

"Dr. Sooz" wrote in message
...
Check out the October/November Beadwork magazine. Page 30. There's cab
instructions there that may help answer some of your questions about
backing
materials, etc. HTH!

Question 1 is about backing. The directions I have always read said to
glue
your cab to Lacy's Stiff Stuff. We just glued ours to leather, which
was
a
bit hard to sew through, then just glued another scrap of leather on
top
of
that to cover up the stitch lines. This resulted in a fairly thick,
fairly
bumpy back since the leather had been wadded up in a bag. I'm assuming
Lacy's Stiff Stuff would have been easier and neater for the first
layer,
but I'm also wondering if any non-wover interfacing would do as well?


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