Adding a thread in a netting collar

[elizabetonth]

Hello everyone. I need help! I've been away from seed beading for a while, and used to do weaving of one kind or another, but always a close one - on a loom, peyote, tubular weaves, that sort of thing. I am making my first ever netting project, having done a set of loom woven collar and cuffs for a friend just before Christmas, as my first project in years. The same friend asked for a Ruth Bader Ginsburg style white beaded netting collar, and I am delighted to have an excuse for a project. So, "Fun!" said I, and went merrily off to the internet, found a tutorial, and had already started when I realised that there were no instructions in the tutorial for how to change a thread when doing this sort of collar netting. With the close weaves, I am very happy changing thread, as there are so many beads there to hold the end of the old one, and so many ways in which you can change direction to make it stay. In this netting, though, I am worried. I don't know how to weave the old or new thread through well enough to make sure that it'll hold. My trusty beading instruction book is in storage in a place I can't get to because of the lockdown in the UK, where I am, and I have combed the internet, but to no avail! Does anyone have any advice? I'm using size 11/0 miyuki beads, and 6lb duration thread. (Also, apropos not much, it's so exciting coming back to beading after more than a decade, if only because the internet is such a source of knowledge now! I have found out about BEADING MATS! My life has changed forever - they make everything SO much easier!)

[caeterle]

I have never beaded a netted collar and only very small netted pieces, so I never had the need to add a thread.
I found this video on YouTube, though, which shows very detailed how to do it, maybe it's going to be helpful.

[elizabetonth]

Ach, Cat, that is SO kind. This video is perfect! Thank you so much for finding it for me! I seems I have a lot to learn about internet searching as well as beading. 😄

I'm really excited to get on with making my collar now, free of the worry of what I'll do when I approach the end of my thread. Thank you very very much.

[lotty64]

You Tube is a great resource for finding 'How to' videos.

[elizabetonth]

Yes, it looks it. I have so far been avoiding video tutorials, because I usually like being able to read instructions and look at still diagrams, but as the perfect answers are clearly waiting just there, I shall go and use it more.

[DawninCal]

I'm no help because I don't work with the itty bitty beads, but I am very much looking forward to seeing the finished collar. That's a wonderful tribute to a great lady.

And, yes. I resisted youtube for a while, but it's such a great resource for making jewelry and for many other things as well, that it's the first place I go when I need to learn how to do something. Just the other day, I was over there watching videos on how to prune roses properly!



Dawn