Tuesday, November 7, 2017

Oops!

The question I'm most asked about crocheting beaded ropes is, "What if you make a mistake?" It happens! The picture below shows where I've threaded three green beads instead of two:
The only solution is to get the scissors out, cut the thread and remove the extra green bead:
Luckily, it's easy to join in a new thread, so I just rejoin the thread. I pull the new thread through loops to duplicate the last stitch on the rope:
That stitch is worked as one and then crocheting continues as before. At the end, the two ends are threaded into the rope:
Voila, the join doesn't show:
I have tried hiding the extra bead in the middle of the rope, or missing one stitch to compensate for a missing bead, but it just doesn't work, the smooth 'scales' of the rope are disturbed and the correction is glaringly obvious. But cutting and rejoining is not difficult, thankfully.

7 comments:

  1. Excellent! If only it were as simple with tatting ;-P

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  2. I read somewhere that if you have an extra bead, or a bead out of place, you can crush it with pliers. Never tried it myself but it sounds feasible.

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  3. I like how you have joined your thread after removing one green bead. I have removed glass beads with a pair of smooth pliers that gently break the bead off and do not cut the thread. Viola!

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