Dulcey Heller

Category: Jewelry

  • Twisted right angle weave clasp

    I’m testing out a light tent and lights; I usually just use Ott-lights on white paper for these blog posts for simplicity. This year for Beading for a Cure, we take our own photographs for the auction, so I’m working on getting good images. I’m still not entirely pleased with this photograph. Anyone have a…

  • 19″ of twisted right angle weave, waiting for a clasp

    I think I’m at the full length, a little over 19″. Next up, a beaded bar and toggle clasp, hopefully this weekend.

  • Introducing a new beading stitch variant: twisted right angle weave

    I am so very pleased that this idea worked! I purchased some of those small peanut-shaped beads a few weeks ago, and designed this stitch variant for them. I wasn’t very excited with my Beading for a Cure project as it was — I think the idea would still work, but I was forcing the…

  • Green stone pendant

    I’ve told myself that I cannot start another project now. I must work on Beading for a Cure! I found this stone pendant today with no identification. I don’t know stones very well; my guess is that it’s perhaps variscite? (edit: now I think it’s gaspeite.) Sorry for the glare on the stone. The bail…

  • Herringbonekette, step 2

    While on my summer trip, I worked on a couple of projects. This is all the further I got on this project! It’s so much easier to keep working on a project than to go back to it after a break. Especially when the instructions are in German, and I’m trying to figure it out…