Recent content by beck83

Oh gosh!! None of that sounds fun. And I live in Australia, it feels like practically everyone likes to go to the beach. I just don't see the appeal

🤣 it's dreadful. I avoid the beach like the plague 😅

Thank goodness!! I thought you would think I was weird. Isn't it an awful feeling!!

Now I understand what you meant. I actually can't swim at all. Being on the spectrum I dislike the smell of chlorine, so I won't go in a pool, unless I have to for therapeutic purposes. I'm also blonde so the chlorine if I went in it regularly, and wasn't careful, would turn my hair green. Even...

I just assumed since my question was specific about the thread, then so was her answer. I don't wear pearls in the shower etc but I was curious in case say I washed my hands and got water on my bracelets or I got caught in a downpour and didn't have an umbrella. I know that the pearls themselves...

Hi, I'm on my laptop so I can't post a screenshot, so I'm going to copy and paste my questiotn and answer that I received on etsy: Me: can beader's secret thread get wet without it damaging the threads/knots and causing fraying? Bernadette: My general advice is to wear your pearls as the...

Hi, Bernadette from Beader's secret told me it couldn't get wet. Now I;m really confused.

Has anyone else also tried wildfire? I wanted to give it a go because it can apparently get wet. Which size is the equivalent to serafil and beader's secret in the medium weight?

This one was 2 threads of medium but 4 were used for the first 3 pearls and 4 were used going back through the last 4. I used knots like in that YouTube video and then an awl to place it as close to the pearls as possible before pulling the 2 strands apart and tugging it around 5 times like you...

OK here is the finished product. Ignore the ending because I always finish off messy. What I want to achieve is no movement of the pearls between knots and a bracelet if I wear everyday will last at least 6 months without restringing. I did my knots like the video I shared with toy yesterday...

I will do, and report back with how it goes 🤗

OK that makes sense. I think I'll try a bracelet with the 2 strands, doing a regular overhand knot and see if I can get it right without any movement of the pearls.

I've done a jewellers knot a couple of times and they look fairly big. However if I was using only 2 strands what that work better to make sure the pearls don't move. Partly why switched from the 2 strands was no matter which method I used, or used them all together, I would get pearls that...

I always use a fine needle, these work well for me. I haven't tried the awl yet, but I will. Do you recommend this for the 2 strand method?