Handrails

I was trying to make very small handrails with quite fine wire and was having a lot of trouble.  And then I thought I could make the handrails like needlelace, using a pad.  The wire is held to the pad with little stitches, then the buttonhole stitch is worked, the handrail is removed from the pad by cutting all the little holding stitches.  It is still quite fragile and can be easily bent, but it is a much more successful way to do it.