Dulcey Heller

Category: Beaded beads

  • Lisa Businka beaded bead

    Lisa recently posted her instructions for making this beaded bead on her blog.  The text is in Russian, but the pictures are generous and clear.  I have very few beads that are not seed beads, so I started by searching for 6mm rounds, as she states.  I didn’t find much in my stash, but gave…

  • Blue beads plus extras….

    So I haven’t done any more blue beads, but I did make 3+ other beads for this set.  I’m envisioning making some sort of centerpiece out of the button, like the button is the center of a flower of fringe, perhaps.  The clasp, I’m hoping, will be hidden underneath it.  The orange beads will be…

  • Vielen Dank, Mariposa!

    At the end of December, Mariposa generously wrote detailed instructions for these beaded beads, and posted the pdf on her blog here.  I was able to make the beads without any translation tools, simply using the exploded diagram on the last page. So I could more easily see where the increases were, I counted the beads…

  • More beaded beads

    A slowly progressing project is making more right angle weave beaded beads, to eventually string into a necklace with a wonderful button as a clasp (I’d like to figure out a great embellished loop for the button). I have one orange bead to include. I’m making a bunch of these blue beads. The orange bead…

  • A wonky crown jewel

    Here’s the result of the beaded bone bezel beads below; this is sort of a folk art rendition of a Laura McCabe design. Take irregular bone beads (18mm across), bezel and join them as instructed, and you get a 30mm beaded bead. This is too big for me to wear, so it’ll be a desk…