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Tip: Handy way to control beads

February 3, 2010 by Denise Felton 1 Comment

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.

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  1. arlee says

    February 3, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    Thanks for another shout-out :} I can’t believe how many years it took meto develop this tool–lots of R&D==lol

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