Book Review - Bead Romantique By Lisa Kan
Then you get into the rest of the book, the projects. They are stunning. They range from very easy and elegant chain and wirework projects, simple beadwoven projects with some lovely surface embellishment, and then some incredibly dramatic ... [... more]
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Earring Advent Event - Penguins
For the next 25 days, I'll be posting a new earring pattern every day. This is the first one, I did my model in Delicas, and odd count peyote. Use peyote or brick stitch, larger beads will make a nice pendant, and smaller beads will make a tiny ... [... more]
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Peyote Alphabet Pattern
I have a few other alphabet patterns on my personal page, including a right angle weave alphabet and one in brick stitch that works well for tie tacks. Since it is on an odd count, it will line up best if you space the letters an odd number of ... [... more]
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Book Review : Metal Clay And Mixed Media Jewelry
The detail in it is great, color photos and examples that illustrate very clearly how to do everything, including the best and easiest instructions I've ever seen for torch firing the metal clays. It defines the ... [... more]
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Beaded Open Daisy Chains
In my example, 8 flowers was long enough to make a bracelet (the purple example) and I made the last stem only 3 beads. Then I add the clasp on an 8 bead loop, and did another chain in the opposite direction to the other clasp using 3 beads for ... [... more]
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Dragon Pattern
up the sides for flat peyote, then add a row of brick stitch to the bottom I hope she likes it. It can be done in brick or in flat peyote, just zip This pattern was a request from a young lady I chat with occasionally. for the whole pattern ... [... more]
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Peyote Alphabet Pattern
I have a few other alphabet patterns on my personal page, including a right angle weave alphabet and one in brick stitch that works well for tie tacks. I've had a few requests for a peyote alphabet, and made this one up, it's 9 beads tall by 7 ... [... more]
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Halloween Free Patterns
If you have a site with free Halloween themed beadwork patterns that you would like added to this listing, please email me and let me know! Beadie Buddy patterns in seed beads, done with 34 gauge beading wire make wonderful earrings or charms. At ... [... more]
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Book Review- Necklaces, Bracelets, Brooches And Rings ...
Then there are lots of projects, all wonderfully photographed in color and diagrammed. Some of the projects are very quick, but challenging enough for an experienced beader to enjoy and be inspired by, and the ... [... more]
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Diagonal Blocks Bracelet
Thread on 9 border color beads, go into the second bead from the last bead added, add a block color, (called grey and pink from here out ) skip the 3rd grey bead in the start row, and pass needle and thread through the next bead, repeat, add a ... [... more]
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Netted Handflower
For this project, you will need to read through the instructions and diagrams first if you are not familar with increasing and decreasing in vertical netting. If you are familar with it, just skip to the last page which has the graph. This ... [... more]
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Netted Cabochon Bezels
There are a lot of methods for doing this, this is my favorite because instead of starting with a ring of beads slightly smaller then the cab then increasing around it, you work down, the disadvantage to this method ... [... more]
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