A dip into the world of extreme tally making.
I saw a post about wire bobbin lace making where the tallies had beads inserted into the center of wire tallies. Using wire gives an engineered stability to lace which thread just cannot copy so a bit of experimentation was called for.
My first tally was a shy little one, with three tiny seed beads added at three points down the center vein. A bit more confident second tally took a larger faceted bead which sat very nicely on top of the tally. Third experiment was three seed beads added on the same thread, I can see issues with these trying to lie sideways and maybe pulling the thread so not my favourite, but would look great in a wide leaf tally as a cat's eye. The last one was a foil lined bugle bead, this one sat best of all. The straight sides helped it sit inside the tally and shows well on both sides.
On the whole, I am pleased with my first experiment, will be interesting to see what else I can do with leaf tallies.
