Good afternoon, dear readers! Today I would like to touch on a topic that is very relevant for needlewomen at all times: a spinner for beads. What is it, what is it used for and what is it eaten with? Let's figure it out.

In the article you will learn:

1. Why do you need a bead spinner?
2. What materials are needed to make it.
3. How to make a bead spinner at home.
4. How to use a spinner.

Spinner for stringing beads

Every experienced needlewoman knows how difficult it can sometimes be to get beads onto a wire or fishing line. How long does it take? To be honest, this is a very tedious task, and your eyes and hands get tired quickly.

I don’t think any of you like to sit and pick up one bead at a time for three hours, and then suddenly something doesn’t work out, unravel and pick up again and pick at these beads.

Therefore, a device such as a bead spinner came to the rescue. Spinner translated from English as spinning machine. When I first started beading, I naturally didn’t know about any spinners or other handicraft gadgets.

By the way, another one of these “helpers” is a bead weaving machine. We have already discussed how to make a beading machine in one of the articles. Follow the link "Beading machine".

Then I found out, and, of course, I wanted to buy such a thing for myself. I looked for this product in different online stores. Bead spinners are, of course, sold. Their average price varies from 150 rubles to 3,000 rubles.

It depends on the manufacturer, the brand, the material of manufacture, and the functionality.

Bead spinners are made of wood or plastic. They can be manual (when there is a bearing at the bottom of the cup, with the help of which the cup rotates) or electric (work on batteries or from the mains).

Recently, more and more needlewomen want to purchase a bead spinner, prompted by positive reviews from other craftswomen.

And I'm no exception. I could have bought a bead spinner at the store, but I decided to cheat and save money and made the spinner myself. Now I'll show you how.

How to make a bead spinner?

So, in order to make a spinner at home, we will prepare the following materials for work:

1. Any unnecessary container (it is better if it is cup-shaped, with a narrow bottom and a wide top. We will put beads here).
2. A ballpoint pen refill or a wooden stick (I took a sushi stick).
3. Stand (this is what our cup will stand on). Even an ordinary shoe box will do for this (I used a sauce cup).

So let's begin. You need to make holes in the center of both containers; I used scissors; using a knife may not turn out straight.

Don't make the holes too wide. Now insert the stick through the upper and lower cups.

The spinner is ready.

Another option for a homemade bead spinner. Let's take:

• A plastic bottle from which we will make a cup by cutting off the top part. Or let's also take a cup.
• Metal self-tapping screw.

Let's make a hole in the center of the bottle or cup. And just insert a self-tapping screw into it.

To be safe, you can melt the screw head a little and insert it into the hole so that it sticks. The bead spinner is ready to use.

How to use a bead spinner

All that remains is to put it into practice. Pour beads into the top cup, let the beads be about half of the cup. This way it won’t spill out and will be enough for work without scraping the bottom with the wire.

We take the wire, bend the end about 90 degrees and lower it directly into the bowl of beads. Now, gradually, slowly, we begin to twist the stick clockwise, collecting beads onto the wire.

You see how easy it is to make a bead spinner at home.

In conclusion, it is worth saying that a bead spinner is a great helper for needlewomen; it simplifies and speeds up working with beads.

Now you are convinced that you can make a bead spinner with your own hands without leaving your home without resorting to expenses and shopping trips.

Use innovations in beadwork and making any bead decoration or craft will be much easier, faster and more fun!

With this I say goodbye to you. I hope you found the article useful.

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If you like to crochet balloons or strands of beads, then the process of placing beads on a thread cannot be called creative and inspiring.
But sometimes you have to collect several meters of beads onto a thread.
What to do? How to make your work easier?

They come to the rescue spinners- special devices that help to collect beads.
They can be semi-automatic, i.e. manually driven, and automatic, battery-powered. Sometimes craftswomen call them spinning wheels.

Guide to using "SPINNER":

1. We pick up the special needle supplied with the “SPINNER” and thread the thread into the eye. Cut off the end of the thread and tie it in a knot or leave it on the spool.
2. Then we take the beads and pour them into the “SPINNER”, filling it halfway or a little more. We do not recommend filling the bowl to the brim, as the beads may scatter throughout the room.
3. We begin to rotate the metal rod of the device counterclockwise, holding it with the thumb and index finger of the left hand. You need to rotate slowly, very softly and smoothly.
4. Rotating the “SPINNER” rod with the fingers of your left hand, place the needle in the bowl with your right hand, with the sharp end “against the flow” of the beads. We try not to touch the bottom of the cup and do not hold the needle so that its tip is visible. The needle should be held semi-horizontally, you need to feel it, feel its movement in the mass of beads, choosing the correct inclination.
And then the beads themselves will be strung on the sharp end of the needle.
5. As soon as the beads fill the needle halfway, move the beads onto the thread and continue stringing.

Spinners can be purchased at handicraft stores.

For example, in the Ocean Beads store there is such a semi-automatic spinner 450 rubles.

This spinner is already available at Walmart 37.99$

How to make a bead spinner yourself.

That's why we are needlewomen, because we can do everything with our own hands!
Here are some master classes.

For those involved in beadwork, the SPINNER will be an indispensable assistant. Buying it is not always easy and is not cheap, but making it yourself will not be difficult. To make a spinner for stringing beads, beads and anything round or with a hole, we need an Oriflame cream box or another one that is suitable in shape and parameters.

In the upper part of the box of our spinner, we glue the motor from the CD player drive using Paxipol glue in the pre-drilled hole.

In the lower part - which will be the carrier, or rather the spinner, of our round-hole wealth, we make a hole equal to the hole in the CD disk.

To power this device, a box with 2 batteries from the Ikeeevsky New Year's garland is used. In addition, it is equipped with a switch and a long cord, which will allow you to conveniently place the spinner at your workplace.

Since the holes on the bottom of the jar and on the drive coincide, the bottom is attached by simply snapping the CD mounting mechanism.

The result is a spinner like this.

Let's add beads to the spinner and make a test run!

After work, the spinner gets ready and hides.

Compact and simple!

P O P U L A R N O E:

You will need: white, blue and green beads, copper wire ø 0.3 mm, PVA glue, green floss, plaster.

What is a CABOCHON?

Cabochon- a method of processing precious, semi-precious or ornamental stone. After this processing, it acquires a smooth convex surface without edges, as well as the stone itself, processed in such a way that it acquires an oval or spherical shape, flat on one side. In ancient Rome, stones with low hardness. Now the cabochon is used mainly in processing opaque and translucent stones with any defects.

For most needlewomen, the most tedious thing about beading is stringing it on wire (line, thread, etc.) - especially when you need to string a large amount of beads and do it as quickly as possible. That is why craftswomen try to make this process as easy as possible for themselves.

In this article we will look at various methods of stringing beads, their pros and cons.

Manual piece stringing

This is the most affordable way. Almost all beginning needlewomen try to string beads using this method.

Its advantages:

• does not require additional devices, so it is accessible to everyone;
• does not require material investments;

Minuses:

• very slow dialing. Very! In one minute, you can collect approximately 6-8 cm of beads in this way;
• with this type of typing, your hands and especially your eyes get tired very quickly (good lighting is necessary for work, otherwise vision problems may begin);
• You need a lot of patience, as doing monotonous work gets boring very quickly. This is especially true for large-scale work.

Most needlewomen who begin to seriously engage in beadwork eventually abandon this method of beading. However, there are situations when this method is the only way out. This is the only way to collect beads in cases where the beads are alternating in a certain order (color or size). For example, for petals with complex colors, where only 2-3 identical beads appear in a row.

When setting beads using a spinner, there are certain features. The most convenient way to collect beads is the rocaille type (round beads). The chopping is a little more difficult. This is especially true for cutting sizes larger than 10. If beads of different sizes are poured into the spinner, then the larger size beads will be collected first. For a uniform set, it is necessary to mix the beads.

It is very difficult to collect beads if there are too few of them in the bowl (at least 10 g are required). The stringing wire must be stiff enough so that it does not bend during stringing. It is difficult to string beads onto wire thinner than 0.3 mm.

Professional spinners differ from each other in the material of manufacture (plastic or wood), the size of the bowl, and the method of rotation of the bowl (mechanical or electrical).

If the spinner is mechanical, then at the top of the bowl it has a pin by which it must be rotated.

If possible, it is better to purchase several spinners in order to pick up different colors without pouring beads out of the bowl each time.

This is very convenient when making leaves with veins or petals with a border.

If the spinner is electric, then the bowl is placed on a stand, which independently rotates the bowl.

Electric spinners also differ from each other. There are spinners that run on batteries or directly from the mains.

Some spinners allow you to adjust the rotation speed, while others do not. When purchasing such a spinner, it would be a good idea to purchase additional bowls; this will allow you to pick up different types of beads by simply rearranging the bowls, without pouring out beads every time you need to pick up a new color.

Pros:

• one of the fastest ways;
• eyes and hands do not get tired;
• convenient to use. You can leave the spinner on the table at any time without fear that it will wake up. The spinner stands steadily on its own. There are spinners in which the bowl is closed with a lid on top, so it is convenient to store beads in it;
• durable. My wooden spinner has been serving me for 4 years now. Even a small child could not break it.

Minuses:

• you need to spend money on buying a sninner. And if you buy several spinners or an electric spinner, the amount will be quite large;
• There is no way to calibrate the beads by size during work.

Set using a professional spinner and a spinner needle

This is the final one - fifth way stringing beads. The spinner needle is shaped like a hook; a wire (line, thread) is threaded into its eye. The rounded end of the needle is lowered into the bowl of the spinner.

With the help of a needle, beads are strung even faster, sometimes 2 times faster than without it. Speed ​​of stringing beads on wire: 60-100 cm per minute. This needle is very useful when working with soft materials, for example, thin wire, thread, fishing line. In this way, you can incredibly quickly collect beads for an “air”, a multi-row necklace made of beaded threads or a single-color lariat.

How to collect beads is up to you. Based on my personal experience, I can only say one thing - I’m so used to the spinner that I use it to pick up even small pieces of identical beads. And I definitely wouldn’t have dared to create such a huge composition without a professional spinner. The creation of this composition took 8 spools of 50 m wire and 2.5 kg of cutting.

Thank you for your attention and see you again!

Let's consider what possible methods of stringing beads on a wire (fishing line, thread, it doesn’t matter). We compare the speed of work, advantages and disadvantages, and you take the fastest one.

In order not to bore you with all the pros and cons, let us immediately consider a comparative table of the results of our study, in which 12 needlewomen participated (5 attempts for each method) using Czech Preciosa beads of the rocaille type (round beads) of size 10.

And then we will look in more detail.

Table 1

The speed of stringing beads depends on the method

And now more details ^__^

Method 1. Piece stringing beads on wire or fishing line

This is the most common method among beginners.

But it is also used in products in which the colors or sizes of beads are constantly alternating in certain order, if only 1-2 identical beads are in a row, as well as in products where only this option is possible, for example, when braiding beads, because you have to thread a wire (fishing line) into the holes after each bead, but our beaded flowers and trees are not such products, which is very pleasing ^__^

Stringing speed: 5-7 cm per minute

Advantages:

• hmm... tell me if you found at least one...

Flaws individually stringing beads onto a wire (line):

• The eyes become very strained, and as a result, vision may become blurred;
• a very long time;
• Fatigue increases quickly (as a consequence of 1 and 2);
• As a result, beginners either have a reduced desire to engage in beading or it disappears altogether.

Method 2. Stringing beads using dense but soft light-colored fabric.

Pour a small pile of beads, about 10 grams, into the center of the fabric.

Then, with your left hand, between your index and middle fingers, pinch the far side of the fabric

and with your thumb we lift the nearest one, forming a “pocket”.

You can bend the two remaining fingers (ring and little fingers), but only so that you feel comfortable. This will lift the corner of the fabric that is hidden in your palm and will not allow the beads to fall apart.

Then with your right hand, move the wire through the beads towards the center of your palm, slightly lifting the wire so as not to scatter the beads that will be put on.

It is very important that you do not feel tension or discomfort in your hand. Try trying different positions of the fabric until you find one that is comfortable for you.

The piece of fabric should be small. A square or rectangle with a side of 10-12 cm will be quite enough. Larger fabric can be folded into several layers. In any case, it should be dense and soft so that you feel comfortable. You can use napkins that are usually used to wipe dust or a kitchen table (photo on the right).

But personally, I don't like the feel of them, so in the photo above I used a Mary Kay case cover, turning it inside out. It's black on the outside. It strains the eyes. As you can see, you can use whatever comes to hand :)

Stringing speed: 15-20 cm per minute

Advantages:

• 3 times faster than the previous method

Flaws:

• possible faster

Method 3. Stringing beads using a homemade spinner (distaff).

You can make a spinner with your own hands from just 2 items that are in every home - a pencil (or the body of a pen) and a plastic jar, for example, sour cream.

To make a spinner, you need to pierce a hole in the center of a plastic jar with a pencil. The pencil should fit tightly and protrude about 0.5 cm from under the jar. If the hole is large and it falls further or does not hold on at all, you can wrap it with tape or tape at the junction with the can.

Stringing speed: 30-50 cm per minute

Advantages:

• 7-8 times faster than piece stringing
• the eyes remain almost relaxed, protecting your vision
• very cheap

Flaws:

• not the fastest way (although much faster than manual)
• you need to be careful not to scatter the beads
• not very comfortable.

Method 4. Stringing beads using a professional device - a spinner (or, as it is also called, a bead spinning wheel).

Method 5. Professional spinner + special spinner needle

The needle allows you to string beads even faster! It happens that 2-3 times.

It will help you a lot in stringing beads if the wire you use is thin or soft.

The process will become even easier and faster!

Stringing speed: 60-100 cm per minute

The only drawback of the needle is that the eye diameter allows the use of a maximum of 0.3 mm wire, usually up to 0.25 mm.

Let beading be your joy!

I wish you creative success and new victories!

Sincerely,

Shcherbakova Lyubov