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It never fails to surprise me just how many love the look of Yoola Design's style of wire crochet or ISK (invisible spool knitting) technique as she sometimes calls it. Many of you loved her Cleopatra ring design tutorial kit which was the star of last ...

Winner of Yoola Design's Cleopatra Wire Crochet Ring Gift Kit | Special Promotional Discount  More Recent Articles Winner of Yoola Design's Cleopatra Wire Crochet Ring Gift Kit | Special Promotional Discount It never fails to surprise me just how many love the look of Yoola Design's style of wire crochet or ISK (invisible spool knitting) technique as she sometimes calls it.  Many of you loved her Cleopatra ring design tutorial kit which was the star of last week's giveaway. A contemporary style which definitely doesn't need a stone to shine. One thing with wire knitting like this using a crochet hook is the need to practice.  If you are just getting a kit for the first time, make sure you practice. Also work with 1 mm - 1.5 mm hooks to start with. The larger hook size is more forgiving for beginners.  You do speed up as I myself have found. I still use a 1 mm hook most of the time.  As some of you have found, it is addicting! Marija said, "You can even do this while traveling - no thousand seed beads falling all over the place."  I also like doing this on long car journeys. Indeed the tube which I created for my design was done on such a trip! Lorraine said, "I have a set of Yoola's looms and this technique is much easier than the viking knit and more versatile."  I agree. One critical difference is with this technique, you can work off the spool whereas with Viking knit, you have to work with sections of wire.  But sis5of11 says, "I find her technique to be fun and easy, though I will never give up Viking Knit as I think they are very different techniques for very different purposes."  I am not sure I understand why, but the look I think is slightly different when you compare the two. So who won?  I numbered all the eligible entries and got the random number generator over on random.org to do the picking. And the winner is GaryandJoanRupnow.  I presume it is really Joan that is interested?  Congratulations!! Yael is also running a special promotion just for you until the 27th of December. This one week code for 15% off anything on Yoola Design  is "BeadinggemYOOLA". It cannot be used with additional discounts. Disclosure I do receive products for review. I also receive a small fee for any products purchased through affiliate links. This goes towards the support of this blog and to provide resource information to readers. The opinions expressed are solely my own. They would be the same whether or not I receive any compensation. ______________________________ Original Post by THE BEADING GEM Jewelry Making Tips - Wire JewelryTips  -Jewelry Business Tips           Share Your Comment! Share Your Comment! Related Posts Winners of Mill Lane Studio's 12 Days of Christmas Earrings Books Yoola Design's $59 Wire Crochet Ring Kit Giveaway Winner of Cindy Pankopf's Kiln Fired Silver Metal Clay Craftsy Class   • Email to a friend • View comments • Track comments •   More Recent Articles Want Something Different? 3 Beaded Earrings Tutorials to Try 3D Beaded Christmas Tree Earrings Tutorials Gold Lame Thread Crochet Earrings Tutorail Wire Woven Treble and Bass Clef Earrings Tutorial 2 Minute Leather Lariat Necklace Tutorial Easy Wire and Pearl Angel Ornament Tutorial How LionFish Jewelry Helps Save the Ocean | LaGarzaBermuda Jewelry     Contact Me • Past Issues • Join This List • Unsubscribe     Click here to safely unsubscribe from "The Beading Gem's Journal." Click here to view mailing archives, here to change your preferences, or here to subscribe • Privacy Email subscriptions powered by FeedBlitz, LLC, 365 Boston Post Rd, Suite 123, Sudbury, MA 01776, USA.