Mary, so YOU were the one who wrote that tutorial!! *hugs* That was definately very helpful and stuck in my mind long after reading it. So long, in fact, that I forgot who posted it. Thank you!!!
I think I do things just a little differently from you now, because I push the stringer onto the bead at an angle, which makes a flatter ribbon of encasing. It's easier for me to overlap that way.
However, I never would have tried it at all, if not for your tutorial. So thank you very much for your inspiration!