kumihimo

I took a class with Sheilah Cleary at B/B and love the technique-once I
mastered it after four unpickings. Bought my own equipment and carried it
home. Had to have a good reason for a bigger suitcase! Have made up two
necklaces and have more planned. Rio Grande has a necklace in their
catalogue made with semi precious beads, I think peridot is one. Anyway,
they are beaded over rubber and expensive. I want to try to get the
effect with kumihono

Have found a neighbour, we live in the country, so she is about two miles
away who also has the equipment, plus spare bobbins and books. She has
just moved house so has to find where she put them. She loved my necklace
and got excited about possibilities.

At last, someone who wants to bead living near me.

Cheers, Jan

Yaaaay.

I have a book on beading with braids. No, I don't know where it is.
It's called um... BEADS & BRAIDS by Jacqui Carey

Oh, and I have something to own up to. I owe Jan G some beads. There,
I've said it in public, thanks to JC and her thread on being
responsible for your actions!

Jan, can you remind me what you'd like? I'll be responsible and post
them next week when we're back from the bead fair. Everyone may nag me
on Friday a week from today to be sure I've been responsible and adult.

-Su

Hi Jan (and others here),

I've just started reading this ng thanks to a tip from Shirley Shone - we
met
on rec.crafts.textiles.yarn (I crochet and have been working other materials
into my crochet work).

Jan, it sounds like you have great local kumihimo support - one woman in
particular on rcty, Els, is the "kumihimo monster" of rcty (a la cookie
monster of Sesame Street) - we both live on the west coast of Canada, she's
sending me an introductory kumihimo kit. I don't recall ever having seen
kumihimo when I was sighted but do enjoy learning new activities.

Cheers,

David
Vancouver, Canada



On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Jan G wrote:

I took a class with Sheilah Cleary at B/B and love the technique-once I
mastered it after four unpickings. Bought my own equipment and carried it
home. Had to have a good reason for a bigger suitcase! Have made up two
necklaces and have more planned. Rio Grande has a necklace in their
catalogue made with semi precious beads, I think peridot is one. Anyway,
they are beaded over rubber and expensive. I want to try to get the
effect with kumihono

Have found a neighbour, we live in the country, so she is about two miles
away who also has the equipment, plus spare bobbins and books. She has
just moved house so has to find where she put them. She loved my necklace
and got excited about possibilities.

At last, someone who wants to bead living near me.

Cheers, Jan

David, I hope you have fun. I didn't until my fourth attempt. My stitch
was fine but my tension was too loose and I wasn't catching the beads with
the thread hence a rather moth eaten attempt. Do you have any degree of
sight? I know I had to keep checking to see if I was on task.

Cheers, Jan

Hi Jan,

The kit came in the mail this afternoon - Els made a heavy cardboard marudai
and included some beads and a braid already started in the marudai.
Completely new for me, the closest I've done to this is spool knitting when
I was a kid.

By the end of 1984 I had become totally blind from type 1 diabetes and got
rid of all my crocheting tools I'd accumulated since about 1973. Re-started
a few years ago.

I did a little kumihimo following Els' instructions - it is tricky getting
the threads untangled and making sure the threads go into the correct
'slots' - it would be a lot easier for me using something thicker like
'regular' yarn. (I don't know a lot of the correct terminologies for my own
purposes but am finding that it's helpful when communicating with other
people lol!)

I'm curious - how fast can people make kumihimo? I assume the beads if used
in kumihimo would be threaded on any of the braid threads before braided? -
I'd use a fine crochet hook to do this rather than a sewing needle.

Cheers,

David



On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Jan G wrote:

David, I hope you have fun. I didn't until my fourth attempt. My stitch
was fine but my tension was too loose and I wasn't catching the beads with
the thread hence a rather moth eaten attempt. Do you have any degree of
sight? I know I had to keep checking to see if I was on task.

Cheers, Jan

I do know that if I charged by the hour no one could afford it!! My
husband laughed when he saw how slow and careful I was. Hey, I've just
got the technique and tension. Time will speed up. They talked about the
clicking of shuttles-I'm not up to that,yet.

Sheilah Cleary used Mastex. Yes, we did thread the beads on before
starting. I only had time for a quick look for Mastex at the show and did
not find it so bought some C-Lon.

Cheers, Jan

On Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:34:15 -0700, Su wrote:

Yaaaay.

I have a book on beading with braids. No, I don't know where it is. It's
called um... BEADS & BRAIDS by Jacqui Carey

Oh, and I have something to own up to. I owe Jan G some beads. There,
I've said it in public, thanks to JC and her thread on being responsible
for your actions!

Jan, can you remind me what you'd like? I'll be responsible and post them
next week when we're back from the bead fair. Everyone may nag me on
Friday a week from today to be sure I've been responsible and adult.

-Su

Su, has anyone reminded you? Just remembered myself, and wondered why I
had kept the kumihimo thread.

Cheers, Jan

Jan G wrote:
Su, has anyone reminded you? Just remembered myself, and wondered why I
had kept the kumihimo thread.

No, but if you remind me I'll post them.

If I had a brain I'd be dangerous, you know?

-Su