Dulcey Heller

Category: Bracelets

  • Hand Jewelry: a class with Diane Fitzgerald

    I am fortunate that Diane Fitzgerald had openings in a local workshop, and sent invitations to local beaders to join her — and it worked with my schedule! This is a series of six sessions, with the ultimate goal of creating a piece of jewelry for the back of the hand. This first session, we…

  • Learning bead crochet

    I went to southern California last month to visit my friend Sylvia. We had a wonderful time together, and one of the things we did was bead. Specifically, Sylvia taught me bead crochet. I crocheted one bangle with slip stitch with 6s maybe 10 years ago, but that’s it. I have no other experience otherwise…

  • Blue beaded fans, step 1

    So building off the fan pendant I recently made, here’s a few elements to combine for a bracelet. I’ll likely finish this as a bracelet — but I think I like the pendant better, the shapes are more interesting to me with only two fans. It runs through my mind that I have no idea…

  • Laughing at myself

    I had this design idea of layered, interlocking diamonds, and came up with this: About halfway through, I realized that this sample, where I went around each element twice, adding the corner turquoise beads on the second pass to create the diamond, was simply a wholly unnecessary way to do what visually looks like netting.…

  • Herringbone spiral complete

    I really like this bracelet. The basis for the idea is Laura McCabe’s herringbone spiral from her Embellished Beadweaving book. I put three of her spirals together, sharing the outermost two beads. I also made it so it looks like tweed, changing the direction of the spirals. Its weight is substantial and satisfying. The clasps…