I'm working on my first beaded vest. Its for me in an adult large men's size. My question is that I am starting to worry that I may not have enough of my background color to finish the thing. I am using 12s on the background. The vest is lazy stitch and I am using 8 beads a stitch to give you an idea of the size. I have approximately 1/3 to 3/8ths of the vest done. I started with a full kilo of the background color. They are kind of crappy beads as they are not very consistantly sized. I have 2 more kilos of the background color that appear to match the color but they are 13s (again somewhat irregularly sized.)
So if any of you have ever done a full vest before, was a kilo enough to do your background or did you use more than a kilo?
If you think I need to break into the 13s and mix my sizes should I go ahead and do it now or wait until I am out of 12s?
The pattern design is geometric. Two smaller designs roughly 8 x 8 inches on the lower half of the front flaps. The same pattern doubled in size to almost 16 x 16 on the back panel. I havent decided yet what design I will use on the top half of the front flaps. In the designs the background takes up approximately half of the total beads.
Any thoughts?
So if any of you have ever done a full vest before, was a kilo enough to do your background or did you use more than a kilo?
If you think I need to break into the 13s and mix my sizes should I go ahead and do it now or wait until I am out of 12s?
The pattern design is geometric. Two smaller designs roughly 8 x 8 inches on the lower half of the front flaps. The same pattern doubled in size to almost 16 x 16 on the back panel. I havent decided yet what design I will use on the top half of the front flaps. In the designs the background takes up approximately half of the total beads.
Any thoughts?
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