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Bead-around-the-world, group 2
Here’s the second group of beaded beads for the Bead-around-the-world beaded bead exchange: These are for Angelica (the bottom black one), and Ulli (the green one, which is a significantly darker and more olive green than the photo, but I had to lighten it to see anything of the detail of the black beads). All…
Laughing at myself
I had this design idea of layered, interlocking diamonds, and came up with this: About halfway through, I realized that this sample, where I went around each element twice, adding the corner turquoise beads on the second pass to create the diamond, was simply a wholly unnecessary way to do what visually looks like netting.…
Delicate lace heart
A day or two ago, the instructions for Shala Kerrigan’s Delicate lace heart was in my feed reader. This is a great way to highlight some precious beads, those beads that are hard to use because they are rare. I used some Italian seeds for the heart, and changed the instructions slightly to use some…
Kumihimo sample, plus beads!
With the braiding disk came some cotton yarn in three colors, fuchsia, green, and gray. There was twice as much fuchsia as the other colors, so I chose this pattern in a simple 8-strand braid. This was easy to keep smooth with the thicker diameter of the fiber, and actually more consistent than later the…
Christmas tree snowflake 2010
I add a new snowflake to our Christmas tree every year. Since I started beading, essentially all of them are beaded. This one is made with tiny needle bugles and 15s, made up as I went along. Its finished size is 20mm.