Arlee Barr of Albedo Design Journal has invented a method for keeping beads at her fingertips, so to speak, so she can embroider them onto her work quickly and with a minimum of spills. When you see what she’s doing, you’re not going to believe you didn’t think of it yourself. See Arlee’s blog post.
Thanks for another shout-out :} I can’t believe how many years it took meto develop this tool–lots of R&D==lol