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MissMoxie · 06-10-2003, 12:04 AM

If you go online to some of the bead sites you can pull up blank pages of graft paper-in different sizes and styles of beads/beading. I'm doing a 3" custom belt pattern and my loom has 54 strands of thread, the two outer are doubled. My belt will be about 36" when completed -- including ends and lacing. When I put my drawing to graft paper I did it to scale then you just count your beads. I don't know if you want to go through all that trouble but when it's done you have a good idea just how your piece will look. I also used colored pencils so I could get a better idea how it would look and if I needed to change anything. I've started it and had to re do it 3 times before I was happy with how the center looked. Good luck
Wado Hawk :)

06-10-2003, 12:04 AM	#7 (permalink)
MissMoxie Pow Wow Visitor Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 8	bead size If you go online to some of the bead sites you can pull up blank pages of graft paper-in different sizes and styles of beads/beading. I'm doing a 3" custom belt pattern and my loom has 54 strands of thread, the two outer are doubled. My belt will be about 36" when completed -- including ends and lacing. When I put my drawing to graft paper I did it to scale then you just count your beads. I don't know if you want to go through all that trouble but when it's done you have a good idea just how your piece will look. I also used colored pencils so I could get a better idea how it would look and if I needed to change anything. I've started it and had to re do it 3 times before I was happy with how the center looked. Good luck Wado Hawk :)