Dulcey Heller

Category: Beaded beads

  • Blue beaded “berry” earrings

    Wrong color, wrong shape, but these remind me of raspberries! I used clear light blue beads over a darker blue plastic bead, using right angle weave. They are very light and easy to wear, and I find them quite appealing.

  • Bead around the world beads!

    Aren’t these great?! These are the beads from the Bead around the world swap, in which I participated at the beginning of the year. All of the beaders except Sylvia are in Europe (mostly Germany). I made the bead at the lower left, specified my colors and finished size (I was pretty flexible), and the…

  • Bead-around-the-world, group 4

    Here’s the final group of beaded beads for Bead-around-the-world: This picture is not as good as my other three; I needed to use a different color backdrop than white, as I had a hard time editing the image of a white bead on a white background! The white bead is Britta’s, and peyote, right angle…

  • Bead-around-the-world beaders

    I’ve received permission to post pictures of the beads I’ve made for Bead-around the world! Before that, here’s the blogs of the other Bead-around-the-world beaders, if you’d like to browse: Angelica (hostess) Britta Inge Marylou Renata Sylvia Tynchen Ulli (she has posted the beads she has received) Other participants are Angela, Anke, and Ute; they…

  • Albion stitch wave bead

    I recently purchased a book by Heather Kingsley-Heath, Albion Stitch Book Two. (There is a Book One, which I don’t have.) It’s a full-color spiral-bound book, with excellently-designed projects based the stitch she’s named the Albion stitch. It looks to be based on an African stitch — Diane Fitzgerald describes in Zulu Inspired Beadwork how…