Making My Mark

SHOWING. In 2013, I wrote an article about sewing marker features. I remember seeing all these beautiful versions of what a sewing marker looks like. At that time I was selling plastic markers. I never liked those characters because they were so ugly, but I don't like their weaknesses anymore. They look like tiny valves, but they break easily. I didn't miss a single hand, but they split alternately, until the last eight, the first nine, fell to about two dozen. Then it's time to think about buying a new one,: Sorry I have to find an excuse to replace the old one. I finally have some beautiful stitches.

Reviewing this old KNDD article for ideas on what to buy, my own study reminds me that I can give my own tip. I was making jewelry, they gave me tools and inventions, all I could do was find suitable beads.





For this project, I looked for medium-sized soft beads that didn't touch the thread I was using. I'm trying to save some money, if you have some basic makeup tools, this simple project can do very little. I also know that I'll be looking for stitches of different colors that I can use to denote different things for color coding (eg...

When I bought my grandmother's Decade necklace and earrings in January, I got a necklace with orange checkered glass beads from Michelle, which you see above as a "free necklace" with the words "1 bead get 1 free" . I found the two red beads you see above, two colored beads in my envelope. this is the only one left. The ivory beaded necklace in the photo is a $2 necklace I bought in Valu village using a $2 discount coupon I received from them to take an online survey. I was so excited to be able to collect the beads for this project for free... when I tried to make the stitches, the ivory-colored holes in the beads were too big for this project. Take a deep breath. I wrapped these beads in ivory and put them in my application box for future use. Then I bought my own necklace for $2.25, this time checking the holes to make sure the beads match.





To make your own sewing markers, you will need a headband, earrings, some basic makeup tools: cookie cutter, round nose clip, flat nose clip (invisible). Thread the bead into your head pin, attach the Leverbak earring, then twist the top of the pin toward the end of the needle until it is slightly rounded. Cut off the excess head of the pin with scissors, close the circle you made with a flat-nosed stork or a stork ... ready.





This is a symbol of the finished embroidery. Since it's twenty for me (I've never worked on more than one knitting project at a time), they couldn't cut, I'm not a loser, so they had to stay. If these look like earrings to you, it's because they really look like I tried a little harder to make the earrings than these stitched markers, rather than making it easier for my elbows to curl. As much as possible.

I'm thinking of turning two orange checkered beads into earrings at some point…