Earring Advent Event- Days 14-18
My great-aunt Liz knitted incredibly intricate stockings in fine gauge for 3 generations of children in my family, they are huge with our names in the top and Christmas morning would always find them full of apples, oranges and nuts and a few ... [... more]
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Earring Advent Event - Day 9 - 13
I love knots, and really recommend Aon Celtic Art for learning how to draw them. Cari Buziak has animated knot drawing lessons, free clip art, and even a lovely bracelet pattern for free, also search for Cari Buziak's patterns for sale at ... [... more]
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Earring Advent Event - Days 4 -8
I'm working on a bracelet of the candies without the blue background linked together. These sorts of peppermints were one of my grandmother's favorite sorts of candies, she had a real sweet tooth. I remember she always had mints in her pockets ... [... more]
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Earring Advent Event - Snowflakes
After I finished the first pair, a friend pointed out that no two snowflakes are alike, so I graphed a different one so I could have matching earrings with two different snowflakes. For more information about doing odd count peyote stitch, check ... [... 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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A Rose Pattern
I hope you enjoy this two drop peyote rose amulet bag pattern. It's only 6 colors, so it doesn't need suggested color numbers, and you can use either cylinder beads or seed beads for it. You can vary the colors easily as well. Roses-Say it with ... [... more]
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Bead Like A Pirate!
And finally, the two patterns combined, to make a large amulet bag. The front of the bag is 60x60 beads, I'd suggest cylinder beads or size 15 Japanese seedbeads for it. In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I made up these patterns ... [... more]
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Beadwork At Bellaonline Index -Earrings, Bracelets And ...
Beadwork at BellaOnline Index -Earrings, Bracelets and Necklaces Just for Fun Peyote Patterns (bracelet patterns) Quick and Easy: Brick Stitch Earring Patterns [... more]
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Brick Stitch Variations
Ann Benson has posted the classic instructions, the type of brick stitch I started with, and that I used for the earrings above. In this method, you do the foundation row, then add one bead at a time, going through the thread between rows on the ... [... more]
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Brick Stitched Peacock Pendant
Weave back to the 13th bead from the botton on one side, and string 5 green beads, one bronze bead, a 6 mm black bead, one bronze bead, 30 green beads, 5 bronze beads, 1 green bead, 6 mm bronze bead, 1 green bead, 5 bronze beads, 30 green beads, ... [... more]
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Brick Stitched Tattoo Bracelet
It's inspired by tattoo art, specifically bold tribal style tattoos. You need two bead colors to make one, if you used a shade close to your skin color and matte black it could be like a temporary tattoo! Another color combination I think would ... [... more]
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Chicken Earrings
The pin above was made like the friendship swap pins I posted a while back. I couldn't remember if she wore earrings, plus I didn't have cylinder beads to make earrings in and using size 11 beads it was really a bit big for an earring. I've got a ... [... more]
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