Beads

I think I mentioned that I am doing embroidery, or textiles or something like that!
An adult version of fun, well, FUN in my book!
My thought process is 'what do I have to loose?' I know nothing so am bound to learn something!

Today I learned about beads.
Little tiny beads that can fit on sewing threads.

I know that you are supposed to have a 'beading needle' it is very, very thin so it can fit through the holes in the beads. 
I do not have one but found a fairly thin needle that worked on more beads than not, so every third or fourth bead got stuck as I threaded it and had to come off, however, I had enough that did slide down the needle and over the eye bump, which is wider than the rest of the needle, to make a strand about 5 inches long.
It was most impressive and I was thrilled.
This took a mere 2+ hours!

I took the strand of sparkling beads and folded it in half then tried wrapping it round some fabric, to make a pretty twist with little twinkles from the beads. 
I was quite pleased with how it was going, when....

disaster...


the thread snapped!!!!!

Hundreds of tiny beads created a very real replica of Stephen Hawking's 'Brief History of Time, Big Bang Theory' and spiralled, and twisted and spun into the vast space that was 'the void'.

However, as it was only the sitting room gravity took hold quite quickly and they descended in amongst the sofa cushions, onto the floor, on the table where they bounced and ricochet in yet more directions.

It only took about another hour to locate and collect up all the beads from the explosion.

The lesson learned from this is, there is apparently special 'beading' thread!  Should I attempt beading again, I shall have acquired 'beading thread' before I bead!


On a side note, in my experience, when things 'explode' the go in all directions, I assume there is some amazing and totally incomprehensible mathematical paragraph that gives a reason why the cosmos is 'flat' like a plate rather than spherical in shape which would be what I would expect.