This method works well with cones.

String the multi-strand section. Take two pieces of wire - a fairly heavy gauge, thin enough to go through the small end of the cone with a little wiggle room. They should be several inches long, depending on how many strands and how comfortable you are working with wire. Make a wrapped loop in one end - small enough to fit inside the cone, large enough to hold the strands. You can make the loop more oval to fit it completely inside the cone; it doesn't have to be neat since it's going to be inside the cone. (A wrapped loop is a loop at one end of the wire with a long tail that ends up at a right angle to the main length of the wire. Take the tail, wrap it wround the main length a couple of times so that the loop doesn't un-loop and snip off the excess.) Terminate the multiple strands on the wrapped loop. When the multiple strands are all connected to the loop, take the other end of the wire and pull it through the cone. Make a wrapped loop on the other end of the cone and attach your single strand to that. If your single strand is chain, start the loop and, before you wrap the tail around the main length, slide the end link of the chain onto the loop and then wrap it. Trim (more neatly than the one inside the cone) and you're set. You can also do more wraps for the outside loop to snug it up against the cone.

On the upside, Republic of Tea's Ginger Peach tea is awesome.

Yeah it is.

t considers going downstairs and drinking some

Toddson, I've marked that. Thank you so much.

Todsdon, I think you've helped me figure out how to cap a beaded tassle too. Thanks!!

I'm sure we don't have the same bank though, so how weird.

Ours is actually a credit union through DH's work. But since I was going to PAY BILLS TODAY, this is proving to be VERY inconvenient. *sigh* I've emailed the help desk.

On the upside, Republic of Tea's Ginger Peach tea is awesome. I'll just have to remember not to drink it tomorrow.

Oh, I haven't had that in ages. I'll have to pick some up.

Glad I could help! it's a useful technique.

I'm not detail oriented enough to make a good beader, so I need to overplan going in, because once I get started, it's all going to slide. I'm assuming the wire's being worked with needle-nosed plier?

Hmm. And I need to find a good local beading place.

Sorry to come in, skip around, and then go all mememe, but my day started at 6:30 or so, when my husband woke me up to inform me that my daughter had just taken a bunch of Tylenol. And shared it with the baby (although she was the one drinking from the bottle).

So he took her to the ER. At 10:30, they'll need to test her blood levels. I know in the long run she'll be okay, either because she won't have ingested enough to be toxic, or because she'll be treated in time. But right now it is muy stressful, and I'm not even the one who's at the ER.

Wire is worked best with a round-nose plier (to make round loops) and, possibly, a needle-nose for when you need to get a good grip on it. Also something that will cut the wire.