Dulcey Heller

Category: Jewelry

  • Lost and found – and lost!

    I purchased these Swarovski pendants back in March — and just discovered them again, mistakenly packed away with something else. I knew I had the bail, which I had purchased at the same time. This really is all I wanted to do with them; I’ll wear the necklace pendant on a gold chain. It would…

  • 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….

  • Herringbone spiral, step 1

    Isn’t this cool? This is herringbone spiral, part of a design by Laura McCabe. It’s in her new book, Laura McCabe’s embellished beadweaving : jewelry lavished with fringe, fronds, lacework & more, which I checked out from my local library. This rope is done as the chain/rope part of an amazingly life-like necklace of beaded…

  • 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…

  • Palawan bracelet completed

    Using this bracelet design by Remue-ménage, I have completed this bracelet: I really like how it looks. This toggle looks great, but isn’t as secure as I’d like, as the loop is fairly soft and doesn’t hold this great open square shape as well as it could. I have lengthened the bar once already. At…