#crochet hook works fine tho imo. i got my tiny one at a local knitting store but i bet they're just around online

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@skimble-shanks-the-railway-cat replied to your post “finished my shawl!”:

How do you get beads onto your knitting?

​I used the crochet hook method, where you use a very very tiny crochet hook (i think mine is .75mm) to add beads as you go. before you knit a stitch that's supposed to be beaded, you pick it up off the lefthand needle w/ a crochet hook that already has a bead on it, slide the bead onto the stitch, and then put the stitch back onto the needle & knit it as usual. (can also do this with a stitch you just knit instead of one you're about to knit, pattern should specify)

i wildly prefer this to pre-stringing all the beads on the yarn before you start knitting, which i tried a few times for bracelets and is just really irritating to do, and even more irritating to have gotten wrong & need to break yarn and redo. have not had the patience for it since i was in middle school. there are patterns where you have to pre-string because you're e.g. putting beads in between stitches, but thus far i have avoided them.