Sunday, September 15, 2013

New Skill: Adding Beads to Knitted Projects


Since I’ve finally mastered the art of basic knitted scarves, I thought I could teach myself to make prettier scarves by adding beading to them.

It turns out that there are 2 ways of adding beads to knitted wool projects:

1)      Pre stringing the beads onto the wool

2)      Adding the beads using a crochet hook during the knitting process

I find the 2nd option much more fun to do, especially as I don’t always like planning the finished look in advance.

So I found a really good instructional video on youtube:
 

And bought myself a box of beads for some more variety and a crochet hook – both from Lincraft.