This month we had a speaker – Rosie Rees – who talked about knitting with beads. Knitting in only one of the uses she has for beads as she runs a beading classes and a craft club in Surrey.
She showed us how to use a fine crochet hook a 0.75 or 0.5 to incorporate beads into the fabric and brought various samples she had made.
A second element of the talk was how to choose the best beads for knitting. One of the key points was to have a large enough hole in the centre to put the crochet hook and the yarn through.
Japanese #8 are good for knitting whereas the Czech size #5 which had smaller holes were also good.
Also mentioned were the way size values differed: US beads are sizes as say #6 is 6 beads to the inch whereas the others have entirely different sizes.
Rosie brought along lots of suitable beads both Japanese and Czech in a whole range of lovely colours and sizes.
