Tag: square stitch

  • Hang the Moon

    Check out what my friend Cyndi Lavin did with the bail I designed for the open Swarovski square: Photograph by Cyndi Lavin, used with permission. I love it!  Here are her instructions.  If you don’t already have the bail instructions (B&B Creative Beading vol 4, or B&B December 2007), you can purchase them from Buy…

  • Creative Beading book

    The B&B email I recently received, advertising the current volume of the “Best of” projects, included my earring project!  Here’s the “click here” link from the email, listed in small print at the top “if you have problems seeing the graphics.”  Or in my case, want to share them.  Cool! A bigger picture of the…

  • Two more of my patterns available on Buy The Kit

    On the Buy The Kit pattern page, I have two more instruction sets available.  One is Grommets Galore: And the other is Simple Solutions: Select my name from the BTK pattern page – each is $4.

  • Creative Beading Volume 4

    I got my complimentary copy in the mail today.  Bead & Button picked the “best projects from a year of Bead & Button magazine,” and chose my earrings project (that opened this blog!) as a project to include.  So, if you look at or buy Creative Beading Volume 4, I’m on page 58.

  • Ignoring the hole on a perfectly good bead

    In my feed reader, I found this post, from Lumina in Budapest, and wanted to play with the idea.  I used a bezel that was inspired by some French bezels (sorry, I no longer have the link), which I also used in my rings.  I did use the hole to help anchor the band of…