Category: Jewelry

  • BFAC 2010, step 3

    The front is assembled!  The rose montees aren’t glued on, but this is where I’m going to place them.  The beads left to use, as at least one of each bead in the kit must be used, are the 3mm jonquil Swarovski, the black hex beads, and the lampwork.  All will incorporated into the back…

  • BFAC 2010, step 2

    I’ve made a couple more fans, and did some temporary stringing.  This is the general idea, with fans of beads and these stained glass components.  I’ll likely reverse the fans so that the wide side is nearest the pendant.  The fans incorporate different colors of size 11 seed beads, and I’ll try various layouts to…

  • Playing with lava

    I bought some strands of lava beads from Rings and Things, and wanted to try a pendant (or something) with a few of them.  Here are the results!

  • Double netting

    Angelica, inspired by the flat double netting in Diane Fitzgerald’s Netted Beadwork, has created and written instructions for tubular double netting.  I love the effect.  She wrote her free instructions in German and English, and the blog post that details how to download them is here — the website requires full name and address to…

  • More stained glass pendants

    Here are more pendants that Carol made for me.  Again, the solder is lead-free.  The top red and yellow wasn’t intended for the BFAC necklace currently waiting for me on my worktable.  The rest were possibilities, and we got together and experimented with possible layouts.  Then she took them home and soldered on the rings…