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My BFAC necklace is up for auction!
Here’s my necklace up for auction on eBay for Beading for a Cure, a project to honor Layne, a beader who lost her fight with colorectal cancer. All proceeds go to the National Colorectal Cancer Research Association. The button on the top of the left column links with the Beading for a Cure website, the…
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Cabled herringbone again
Okay, I should just follow instructions. Color me stubborn! But I love these beads, and wanted to give it a try – those beads on the edge are a great matte ab root beer brown. They’re too big, though, they really need to be the same size as the internal herringbone rows, the green beads. …
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Cabled herringbone
The February 2009 issue of Bead & Button has instructions for cabled herringbone, designed by Rae Arlene Reller. Herringbone is one of my favorite stitches, and I found this very appealing, so I gave it a shot. The blue and purple are French 10’s, fat beads. I increased the width of the herringbone stitch by…
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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…
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Another blue ring
I didn’t cut up the old one, I have a few of these inexpensive blue lapis cabs! I haven’t submitted instructions for any article proposals for a while, and thought I’d give it a try with this ring. Practices have changed in the last couple of years; instructions need to be completed for the proposal…