More beaded beads
A slowly progressing project is making more right angle weave beaded beads, to eventually string into a necklace with a wonderful button as a clasp (I’d like to figure out a great embellished loop for the button). I have one orange bead to include. I’m making a bunch of these blue beads. The orange bead…
More blogs
Here’s some more I’ve added to the blogroll: Liza biZSUterie
The size of the online beading world
is very, very small! I was on a flight yesterday, sitting next to a gentleman reading a book. We exchanged hellos, then he read, and I napped and then beaded (picture in a later entry). While we were waiting to deplane, he commented on my beading, and sounded a bit knowledgeable. He said he knew…
Herringbone and memory wire bracelet
I have seen many wonderful bracelets in blogs (often Hungarian) that make some sort of beaded rope, and then string them on bracelet-sized memory wire. Here’s one that I saw, by Ande. Mixing sizes of beads in herringbone makes it a different texture, not the slinky-smooth especially evident if you use the size 10 Miyuki…
Zillion bead pickup
So. I pull a fliptop of red 8s out of my storage, and the cap gets stuck on the metal bracket. I think I’ll start with a broom, see if that will cure my floor’s chickenpox! We’ve all done something like this, right?!