Dulcey Heller

Category: Necklaces

  • Picot spiral

    I recently purchased Claudia Schumann’s Spiralketten, a book of her spiral stitch variations. The text is in German, but if you understand spiral stitch, her instructions are easy to follow. The basic variations are described and illustrated at the beginning, and pictures of various spirals and their stringing/beading count follows. This is her picot spiral,…

  • My Bead Around the World 2012 beads

    Here are my beads! I made the bead on the lower right, and the others were made by participants to go with it. I think I want to highlight the bead top center with an orange rope — there’s an orange luster in the bead. I plan to make the others into a necklace. I…

  • Beading for a Cure 2013, step 1

    So where am I going with this? This could perhaps become a pendant – three or so rows above the bead scoop shape is a built-in hole where this can be strung, perhaps on a velvet ribbon. Hanging inside the shape, and framed by the matte metallic café au lait color will be some of…

  • Kingman turquoise cab, step 3

    I think I still like it. The cab is finished, now it’s time for the necklace part. This can be challenging, finding the right visual mass to best suit the cab. This is about 2.5″ long and 1.5″ wide. My first thought was a strung necklace, but that may seem slight with the cab. A…

  • Kingman turquoise cab, step 2

    I haven’t had a lot of beading time lately – but I’ve had a few minutes to work on this. I think I like it. I’m just going to put an edging on it and call it done. It’ll be turquoise again, and maybe I’ll throw in some more pearls? I’m pretty sure it will…