For the sake of impartiality, this post is dedicated to showing how to add a bead directly into your stitchery. First get your tools together: your current crochet project in progress, an extra tiny crochet hook (or other implement that will fit through your chosen bead) and collect your wits about you.

I’ve chosen a crochet in the round project that’s done in single crochet using a G hook. I also picked an “H” bead that I found among my collection. The tiny silver crochet hook is a “US5/1.7 MM” – it’s got a really small hook and can easily slide through most of my beads.

To stitch the bead into your work, pull your current crochet loop out until it’s long enough to accommodate the size of your bead. The thing is, if your bead has a big enough hole in its middle you can actually just shove the loop through the bead – in this instance, the H bead has a small hole so I have to use the tiny 5 hook.

Here’s how I did it:

Had I used one of the larger beads with the bigger hole, I could have simply twisted the yarn with my fingers and pushed the loop through. Alas, I always make things harder than they need to be.

Once you’ve pulled the loop through your bead, you can go back to using whatever size hook you were crocheting with, in my case it is the beloved G hook.

The next step simply involves making your next stitch – since my project is a single crochet, I poked my hook through the next stitch in my row and went at it.

Now, that was easy wasn’t it?

And here’s what my project looked like after a few more stitches:

Once you grasp the concept (hopefully you’ll be quicker than me, because it took me hours of scouring the internet to figure out how to do this) you can use this method to securely attach any item with a hole in it into your stitching frenzies. Like yesterdays’ R0cktapuss – his tentacles could have beads stitched in. This is particularly funktastic when you crochet in the round and add beads as “eyes” for your creatures, creations or Amigurumi dollz.

P.S. I chose the H for Hannah and for Jesse Higginbotham. Love you both, miss you madly <3 </3