Plei, do you make jewelry? I have a bead-threading question.

Yeah. Not as much as I used to, but at one point, I had a several hundred dollar a year beading habit.

I wish I had the beading vocab for this question...but here goes...

I want to make a necklace that's multistrand for part of it (in front). I've IDed the transitional pieces (silver furled cones from Bali), and the beads for the multistrand part (dark wood), but am not sure about the transition to the single strand part. Now, I haven't decided what the single strand bit is going to be -- more wood round beads? Silver cylinders? Chain? Mostly I'm stuck on the mechanism of going from the multiple threads to...whatever. I figure either I run the multiple threads through large-bore beads and worry about it at the fastener, or tie them off after the narrow end of the silver cones. But I need doodads. There need to be doodads.

Which ones, and how?

What sort of thread are you using?

Also, do have a link to the transitional piece?

Reducer connectors:

[link]

Bead tips: [link]

Crimp beads:

[link]

What sort of thread are you using?

Also, do have a link to the transitional piece?

I haven't picked a thread yet -- I was just perusing beads in the store, trying to work out the best mechanism. Which isn't usually the way I go about it. The cone looks roughly like this, 3/4 to 1 inch long.

eta: Looks like bead tips or crimp beads -- but I've only ever used bead tips near the fastener, because I can't make them tidy enough for the front of the necklace. It's possible I'm missing something. Never used crimp beads -- is there a trick?

Never used crimp beads -- is there a trick?

Thread through, loop thread over connector hole (if you have a connector hole, else this doesn't work well), thread through again, smash crimp bead with wide-ish pliers until quite flat, trim thread end.

Okay, so if I find a guy who isn't creepy and is turned on by geeky girls, I'm supposed to send him to ita.

Because, yeah, that's exaaaactly what I'd do.

ita, if you find a Krav guy with great arms who doesn't mind fat girls, you just send him my way and then we can ride a flying pig into the sunset.

This post brought to you by antihistimine, proper spelling is not guaranteed.

Thread through, loop thread over connector hole (if you have a connector hole, else this doesn't work well), thread through again, smash crimp bead with wide-ish pliers until quite flat, trim thread end.

Is the connector hole part of what the tapered strand is going to attach to the rest of the piece with? Also, thanks!

Because, yeah, that's exaaaactly what I'd do.

Hey, isn't this the guy who's making your eyes glaze over? Isn't this a guy who's into girls into things you don't like? You really wouldn't pass him along?

Damn, girl. If I found an otherwise decent guy who bored me and didn't like me, I'd sure check and see if anyone else could use him.

I'm just saying that I've been ignoring an entire sea of men based on an interest I'm not interested in.

I mean, my hobby is writing, and I can't imagine anything more boring than watching someone else type, so I figure we'd be even.