Dulcey Heller

Category: Bracelets

  • Cabled herringbone

    The February 2009 issue of Bead & Button has instructions for cabled herringbone, designed by Rae Arlene Reller.  Herringbone is one of my favorite stitches, and I found this very appealing, so I gave it a shot.  The blue and purple are French 10’s, fat beads.  I increased the width of the herringbone stitch by…

  • Lovely right angle weave

    I was reading the current newsletter from My Lovely Beads, a bead store in Alexandria, Virginia. Check out the Geometric Bracelets gallery towards the bottom of the page. There’s some great right angle weave, nice sculptural shapes by Galina Kolmogorova. See how she’s used memory wire to give at least some of them shape? I’m…

  • Another rug palette

    I took another picture of a rug (see another rug palette entry here). There was a coffee table in the center, and furniture on the edges, but these pictures give you an idea. There is a medallion of the two blues in the center of this large square area run, and then geometric designs around…

  • Ripit on the loom

    Here’s the before: And here’s the after: It was just too rippled; it didn’t look good. I’ll have to sit down and start over. I’d like to get this footer established and the beading going, as it’s a nice project to have ready and waiting for when I want to do just a little something.…

  • Herringbone and memory wire bracelet

    I have seen many wonderful bracelets in blogs (often Hungarian) that make some sort of beaded rope, and then string them on bracelet-sized memory wire. Here’s one that I saw, by Ande. Mixing sizes of beads in herringbone makes it a different texture, not the slinky-smooth especially evident if you use the size 10 Miyuki…