Do knitting spools look familiar? If so, it is likely that you had one as a child. You may have had a wooden knitting spool with nails hammered into the top. Perhaps it was a gift from an industrious grandfather that loved carpentry and working with wood. If you are younger, you may have been gifted a plastic knitting spool from a big box store. Yarn was a good option with these knitting spoo…
A well-made wrapped loop is one of the most useful and common ways to make connections in jewelry work. Indeed, you will find at least one basic tutorial in almost every bead website, magazine, and book. It would seem then, given the abundance of instructions and simplicity of design, that every wrapped loop would be done with perfection, yet this is not the case. Why? Perhaps, because (for some o…
