Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 2: Border Beading

Continue from Part 1: Preparing The Frame & Canvas

After having your frame and canvas prepared, shoes-face traced out, the next step is to sew a stretch of beads along the shoes-face outline like the picture shown below.

You need:

1. Japanese seed beads size 15/0 for the border
2. Very fine needle so that it can go through the hole of the seed bead
3. White color quilting thread
4. Needle threader (The needle’s eye is so small that you will appreciate to have this threader in hand )

The sewing method is to simply adapt the technique ….

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Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 1: Preparing The Frame& Canvas

Ever since I posted my Kasut Manek (beaded shoes) here, I received several emails from readers around the world asking me how to do beading for it. I decided to post some comprehensive tutorials in this area to cover all-you-need-to-know-how-to-bead-a-Kasut-Manek.

These tutorials are going to split into 4 parts:

• Part 1 – Preparing the frame and canvas
• Part 2 – Border Beading
• Part 3 – Interior Beading
• Part 4 – How to take measurement on your foot
  

Here we are, at the very beginning among these tutorials: How to prepare your cross-stitch canvas….

You need:

1. A wooden frame measuring 11″ x 14″, preferably soft wood like pine so that you can press the thumb pins into it easily.
2. A 16-count cross-sticth canvas, white color, 11″ x 14″. Sew a border of 3.5″ width with cotton fabric
3. Some thumb pins
4. Shoes-face shape of your foot size
5. Pencil

If you can’t find the wooden frame, you can always substitute it with   ….

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Free Pattern – Crochet Drawstring Bag

I am so glad that my blog’s migration is finally over, phew!!! After numerous sleepless nights fighting against broken links, fine tune the layout (still doing though), adding plugins, widgets, blah blah blah…. I am back to posting again, YAY!!!

As promised, here is my first free pattern for the drawstring bag made from T-shirt yarn, yup, another recycle project for the environment. You can click the image below to get the free pattern link in acrobat .pdf  format.

Before you jump into the free pattern, below are some of the tips on how to get it done. ….

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My Whole New Blog Layout

 

Hi, I am back with my new blog layout, after more than a week of tweaking and fine-tuning, I am proud to launch my new blog platform. Thoug there are still some polishings need to be done but I just can’t wait… I can’t wait until it is perfectly done  before I can update my crafts here. It is monotonous to do crafts without audiences. I put up a screen shot of the previous look of my blog, just in case you can’t remember, or want to compare them before this major make-over

Special thanks to

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