Dulcey Heller

Category: Beaded beads

  • Pick success!

      This one works! Self-supporting, which is what I was stubbornly trying to do. My favorite beaded bead with a support is a clear plastic bead covered with transparent seed beads in right angle weave – you can get some great effects with the interaction of the two colors. This is the one that preceded…

  • Failure in pink

    Actually, I discovered two ways that don’t work for a beaded bead. I think I can probably find more! I like the dodecahedron, but I can barely wedge the needle into the 8s. I can’t fight it for all the rest of the sides.

  • Bead Around the World 2012

    A lot of people had conflicts this year, so our group was only five beaders. In Bead Around the World, everyone makes a start bead, and the other beaders make a bead to complement that bead, to the originator’s specifications. Here are the start beads: And here’s what I made to go with these beads:…

  • Lavender right angle weave bead

    Here’s what I hope will be a fun gift for a fellow beader: a right angle weave bead for her to embellish (or not). I left the thread tails so that additional thread passes won’t pull trimmed ends through. It’s 1″ in diameter – using a clear plastic bead makes it very lightweight, though.

  • Bead Around the World start bead

    So, I started with a starfish of sorts (in an earlier post, but I redid it so that the hole in the ring of beads was 6 beads instead of 12), then added another layer of starfish arms. Then I added more black and red arms to the inner lentil beads, and attached them with…