Argh! Something's wrong with the comments feature. What a pain. At least it appears to be at Snorland and not my error. Now just a matter of waiting til it's fixed.

After having two tubes of beads spill all over everything last night, I started covering a glass ball with beaded netting. I did standard horizontal netting, not the vertical netting that was in last year's December issue of Bead and Button Magazine, but I'll try that next. They have a PDF file with the instructions, so it's worth the visit if you want to give this a try. It seems to work up pretty quickly which is nice if I want to make any for our office party in a week.

The current issue of Bead and Button has some articles about beaded crochet. I'm thinking I might give this a try. There's also a really good animated tutorial at BeadCrochet.com.