Category: Necklaces

  • Another Albion bead

    Okay, on to Christmas presents! Bead around the world beads! Herringbone spiral! Back to looming? This is not an easy time of year to bead….

  • 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…

  • Green pendant, finished

    Back in July, I blogged about purchasing an unidentified green pendant, which I think is gaspeite. Catherine Bond volunteered to make a kumihimo braid to make the rope from which to hang it. Here it is! Works great, don’t you think? She did a great job of making something that really suits the pendant without…

  • Blue beaded bead

    This is perhaps the first bead in a swap in which I’m participating. I need to see if I continue to like it after a few days! It’s peyote over a 12mm wooden bead as armature.

  • Twisted right angle weave instructions for sale

    These instructions are now available for sale from Buy The Kit on their pattern page. Select my name from the designers, and this instruction set is on the second page. The primary instructions are for the cream and green rope second from the left, but I also diagrammed the variations for the other three, and…