Cheryl,
Your view and your photos are glorious!
Your class sounds like a great deal of fun. Beading for me was challenging at first. When you think about it there are a number of factors that need to be right - like tension, the angle of the crochet hook, and ensuring that other stitches on the needles don't slip off - especially yarn overs right before the bead stitch. Someone suggested to me to have several crochet hooks already loaded with multiple beads and place them in a dish with rice in it. The rice provides support for the handles of the crochet hooks and allows you to grab one quickly. Sounds like a great idea but I find that I still am better with just a single bead on the crochet hook. I guess my dish would have rice, multiple hooks with one bead each on them.
I find that adding the beads has not caused me to make knitting mistakes but it's slow. I may try the suggestion with the rice and multiple hooks to increase efficiency. But for me, beading really slows me down. When you knitted AK with a gazillion beads, how did you finish it so quickly? Didn't you say you set a daily goal for yourself - I remember it being significant - how did you make the goal with all the beads?
Thanks!!
denise
I've switched to using SuperFloss for placing beads. I can load the floss with lots of beads and don't have to worry about them falling off. That has been a huge help. I managed to take some photos of how I do it yesterday so I will put them in a post later today.
On AN, I set the goal of at east 20 rows a day. Doesn't seem like a lot, but with the beads, it was. I am slowed down by my need to fondle and admire the fabric as I go along. 
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