Texas, You have me thinking about something. When we complete a cross stitch the final (top) stitch leans from right to left. If you are applying a bead, and you do the "bottom" portion of the stitch first and THEN apply the bead when you come up in the "southeast" corner of the stitch and go down in the "northwest" corner, this would make the bead lay in the same direction as the normal top stitch would lay. Right?? You said yours turned out a little wobbly. Would going through the bead twice anchor it better? The beads are small, will they "accept" having thread run through them twice? You see, I know enough to be confused!!! I do wish you could see this stitch shop in Cape May. At times when I have been there, they have shown me the different L&L designs that are framed and beaded. Of course, I didn't know enough to ask questions!! The next time I am down there, probably by the end of this week, I will "pester" them with a whole bunch of questions. I must say they don't flinch at the word "beading"!!
P.S. I'll have the check on Merry Lee in the morning. Someone is now answering her twitter messages. Example: from Staten Island.."Merry Lee do you want to stop in for a night cap? You are right at my back door!" Merry Lee: "No thanks, at this point I would just settle for an ice pack for my dorsal fin!"