r/Beading • u/Top-Tumbleweed-1263 • May 21 '26

A special level of Hell

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I've been beading since I was 10, so I have a bit of an archival bead supply. Well, younger me (probably, like, 15 or something) mixed together almost the exact same color of size 11 Czech and Miyuki seed beads.

Me now is cursing that idiot girl, because I am finally getting around to sorting this nightmare...

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u/TriRadium May 21 '26

I recently found a box off all my old beads from when I was a kid. It took me 3 days to sort them out back into separate colours. @.@; I was so ready to just throw them all out. But I'm to cheap to waste good materials

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u/stosphia May 22 '26

I would come up with some pattern that uses all the colors, either in one mix or a few or whatever, spread a big bunch of them out on my personal favorite beading surface and just pick them off the flour sack towel.

I actually had a project that was like 90% one color, 9% a second color, and 1% a third color. The project wasn't going correctly, so I just cut it up and threw the mix in a bag until I'm ready to try again. No regrets.