tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10948874347873266512024-03-13T11:59:18.949-04:00NEDbeadsNEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-56098386870544325602019-03-31T08:15:00.000-04:002019-03-31T08:15:04.433-04:00News about PromptsHello all. I'm afraid I'm going to stop doing bead prompts for a bit, go on hiatus and see if things perk up at all. The original plan was to start doing monthly prompts to see if they could help me (and others!) to get back to beading again... and it hasn't worked for me (although I have heard that it has for others and that makes me soooooo happy!). I'm sad that the beads these days cause me anxiety rather than joy, but it's helped me to make this decision. I'm hoping that by putting things away and taking a true break from everything bead related, that my muse will be coaxed back into the open. The prompt group is going to remain open and folks are more than welcome to hang out and post their works in progress or inspiration, or even to suggest prompts themselves. I hope to come back to it with a fresh eye and a much more relaxed mind, but I'm not at all sure when. Thanks so much for following along, if you have, and for supporting my little endeavor! I hope you all have a wonderful April and that you have much, much fun. Hugs to all.NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-30533057520089098052019-02-27T06:59:00.003-05:002019-02-27T06:59:44.692-05:00March Beading PromptHappy spring-almost! How has your year started? Have you gotten to any of the things on your 2019 To Do List yet? I haven't, either, don't feel bad. ;) We're at the point in the year when we start to rearrange what we planned, I think - you're either massively excited about the things you're ready to do (but can't yet because weather!!) or you're thinking of changing directions because the planned things aren't floating your boat anymore. I think both things are perfectly ok - it just means realigning yourself with what's resonating. <br />
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I didn't get around to beading last month's prompt, but I did get out an old, half-started project and consider it. It's still a thing I want to work on, so we'll see if that happens within the next few months. It's a huge project, and it felt very intimidating and led to this month's prompt as well, because I thought to myself that it would be good to maybe dip in a toe rather than belly flopping. Soooooooo, a smallish type of prompt this month - earrings. They seem do-able since they are usually (not always!) small and quick. And really - you MUST have at least one earring pattern floating around in your stash that you haven't done up yet? Or one in a magazine that you've been eyeing?<br />
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These are some of my favorite ones I've made in the past which I hope will give me some impetus to make a few more. I discovered that I enjoy creating bead embroidered ones much more than the woven ones, but there are some lovely weaving patterns out there (and in here, in my stash of patterns on my computer... oh so many!!). <br />
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One of the problems lots of people face with earrings is the issue of The Other One. Making the first earring can be a blast, having to follow through and make a second can be a pain in the butt. SOOOoooo, here's the thing - if you make some mismatched ones this month, it totally counts. In fact, if you make one earring and decide holy heck! this would make a fabulous pendant! - it still totally counts. :D I hope to see bunches of earrings - matching or not, turned into pendants or not - in the group this month! Happy beading!NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-16854118203506218162019-02-01T05:24:00.001-05:002019-02-01T05:24:07.222-05:00February Beady PromptGood second month, all. I hope the new year brought you loads of goodness! It brought me another round of chest infections, lol, so this post is going to be rather short and sweet. On the other hand, it also brought me a new oven (which works a million times better than the old one), and brownies are always welcome.<br />
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February's prompt is Freeform weaving. It doesn't have to be peyote, although combining peyote and right angle weave is my favorite ways to freeform. You can do freeform with most all of the stitches, herringbone in particular can be very pretty and corrugated. Most online sources for directions are about peyote stitch and freeform, but I encourage everyone to try it with all the stitches - you never know what you will come up with that might be utterly gorgeous. <br />
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Folks usually either adore freeform or absolutely loathe it - for me, it's freeing and a way to bead without worrying about patterns or formality. You can add ANY bead or component, or wrap it around any old thing and make it special - rocks, sticks, vases, compact mirrors, pens... pretty much anything goes. It's a beautiful way to meditate or to work on mindfulness, something that I have been trying to invest myself in these last two years. <br />
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If you've never tried it, I really hope you will. Keep in mind that freeform projects almost always go through a very Ugly Stage where you're convinced it will always look awful and you should give right up - and keep going. It gets past that stage and you end up with gorgeousness. Honest!<br />
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I do straight freeform with beads only and then I do freeform with bead embroidered components included as well - both of them are hugely satisfying and fun to work on. Here are a few of mine from days past...<br />
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There are lots of tutorials online for freeform beading; one of my favorites must be Karen Williams' book Explorations in Freeform Peyote Beading (and she included me and one of my rocks - squee!!) and you can get that <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/260868048/the-complete-e-book-collection?ref=shop_home_active_6" target="_blank">HERE</a>. I have a tutorial in my shop that combines the freeform and the bead embroidery if you want a starter - you can find that <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/118702190/atlantis-cuff-tutorial-combining?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=nedbeads&ref=sr_gallery-1-20&organic_search_click=1" target="_blank">HERE</a> if you're interested. For a wonderful free tutorial you can't get a better one than the one Beki Haley provides on the Whimbeads site <a href="http://whimbeads.com/cart.asp?pg=classroom-freeform_peyote" target="_blank">HERE</a>. For those of you who really really hate freeform - and I'm sure there are a few! - feel free to keep on working on Albion stitch or Trellis or anything at all that makes your heart sing, and share in the group anyway this month, so we can keep in touch. :) Happy beading!!NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-92031929982047578232019-01-01T05:28:00.001-05:002019-01-01T05:28:52.482-05:00January 2019 Beading PromptHappy New Year everyone! I sincerely hope that it brings you each what you most want and need and that it's full of joy and many, many beads. (And that you might have gotten a few stash items for Christmas as well. ;) )<br />
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Speaking of Christmas gifts brings me smoothly to this month's prompt, as it is entirely brought about by a generous and wonderful gift I received from a very special friend over the pond - Becs Dean Skinner sent me BOTH of Heather Kingsley-Heath's Albion Stitch books! <br />
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I'm so excited and can't wait to dig in! Albion is a fabulous stitch with so many variations and uses, and Heather's projects are amazing and beautiful. If you don't own the books I highly recommend them (yes, I've read them already!), and if they aren't in your budget right now, Heather has many pdf patterns available on her website, as well as some free ones that she created for International Beading Week. </div>
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There are a plethora of projects to choose from in the books (which are really well written and have step by step directions that are sooooo easy to follow). A selection of the patterns I am most drawn to in the two books would be the Sea Curl bracelet, The Cloister Ribbon necklace and (squeeeeeeeeeee) freeform vessels!! </div>
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These are all located in her for purchase pdf patterns, which you can find <a href="https://heatherworks.co.uk/digital-downloads/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. If you'd like to browse her free pdf downloads, you can check them out <a href="https://heatherworks.co.uk/product/flora/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. And last but not at all least - Heather has written a new book with Melanie de Miguel (author of the fantastic Hubble Stitch) named "Tudor Inspirations - Elemental Beadwork" which I am DYING to buy. The projects in the book were inspired by the Cheapside Hoard, something I discovered years ago and was sooooooooo inspired by but never got round to designing from - Heather and Melanie have brought all my beady dreams to reality in this book! Feast your eyes upon the cover, and the inspiration photo from Heather's blog.... so much DELICIOUS...</div>
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So you know what's on my wish list now... Sherwood is definitely getting a few nudges for my birthday. :) So that's it for me for January, I wish you the best of the beginnings for this year, and I hope you find something that makes you want to dive into Albion stitch as much as I do! Have a wonderful month, and see you soon!</div>
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But first, an update here on what I managed to do last month - I finally managed to do one of my own prompts!!! *trumpet flares here* I finished the cuff I picked up to do AND I started another project that I hope I can show sometime during December. It was so so so good to get back to things, and to FINISH something!! There were also a ton of awesome embroidery projects shared in the group - everyone that participated did gorgeous things, and I was so happy to see so many photos. Here's my cuff done!<br />
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On to December! This month's prompt is make a pendant! I would say they're fast and easy, but some of the ones I've seen out there are pretty darned complex and amazing, lol! However, you can find simpler ones around, and they might be the perfect thing if you're needing something for a gift. I wanted to mention that Cynthia Newcomer Daniel has a FREE pattern for a Christmas pendant that she has uploaded to Facebook - I shared the link on my personal page, if you'd like to make one of your own. Isn't it beautiful?? </div>
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Instead of looking through Etsy and sharing my favorite finds with you this month, I'm challenging the folks in the group to come forward with their favorites and share links. I'd love to see what you all are loving.<br />
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I really hope 2019 is going to be an excellent year for all of us, and that things can be a little more peaceful and a little more easeful. If I don't get around to writing another post until January, let me wish you a fabulous new year's now. :) Happy beading!! And thank you all for following along for another year's worth of prompts with me, it's been a pleasure. NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-6672125738246789272018-11-01T05:13:00.000-04:002018-11-01T05:13:13.629-04:00November 2018 Beading Prompt Happy day after Halloween! I hope everyone had a lovely time yesterday. Ours was pretty relaxed, we never get trick or treaters (darn it!) and I'm down with a case of pneumonia, so QUIET was the word, lol. Fall is my absolute favorite time of year, and Samhain is just the icing, though, so I was happy as can be anyway.<br />
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November's prompt is near and dear to my heart, and hopefully will spark lots of creativity. I didn't get to doing any brick stitch last month, but hopefully I will get right into working on this month's prompt - Bead Embroidery! In fact, I dug out an unfinished cuff project yesterday and hope to complete it before the end of the month. If that doesn't work out, I have promised myself to start a new piece of embroidery of some kind.<br />
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In a lot of ways, I feel that bead embroidery is one of the very best, most creative forms of bead work, with SO MANY ways to make it purely your own. There are many gorgeous patterns out there (and yes, I'm going to link to some of them) but it also provides this gigantic playground for the person who wants to just jump in head first. You can grab any focal at all and just go to town. You can include any bead that tickles you, and objects that aren't beads or even resemble beads -there are no rules at all! One of my favorite ways to use it, other than cuff bracelets or wall hangings, is to combine it with weaving such as freeform - to make necklaces, to make bracelets, to make rocks into art objects. (I have a tutorial called Atlantis that shows how I combine embroidery and freeform in my shop if you'd like a peek at my process.)<br />
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My second favorite is doing what I called Mixed Media bead embroidery - which is basically using weaving such as freeform or RAW on top of fabric along with embroidery, and including things such as fibers or patches of different fabrics or metallic components. (I have a tutorial on that as well.)<br />
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So 'my kind' of embroidery is sort of free flowing and rarely looks like a 'thing' in itself. But a few of my friends do amazing portraiture/caricature work and have made tutorials, as well. Kinga Nichols of CrimsonFrog does, of course, AMAZING work with embroidery. As of right now, she is off teaching and her shop is closed, but she offers gorgeous kits for her creations, as well as offering a seasonal, curated collection of beads each season, specifically meant for embroidery - these kits also include beautiful fabrics to work with, and unique focal bits. She has an FB group for those people who have bought her kits, and I highly recommend both the kits and the group! You can find the group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/167448567218765/" target="_blank">HERE</a>, and these are a few of the kits from past seasons (and may I say, they are hugely inspirational):<br />
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My friend Jody Young also has a new bead embroidery group on FB, called Beyond The Boundaries with Beads, where she is inspiring people and conducting both swaps and challenges - you can find that group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1484954621727356/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Jody's work is incredible and features what she calls her Raised Texture method of embroidery. She has a shop on Etsy with delicious embroidery kits as well, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BeyondBeadsGallery?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">HERE</a>. A few photos of her incredible work:<br />
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There are so many artists out there that inspire me, I could go on and on and on and on; Diane Hyde, Jamie Cloud Eakin, Sherry Serafini, Heidi Kummli, Catherine Chinoy, Laura McCabe, Laura Boudloche Zeiner... the list is a mile long at least. A few of my favorite bead embroidery tutorials would have to include:<br />
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Carol Paris of BumblebeadCrafts on Etsy offers WONDERFUL and whimsical tutorials of adorableness such as Puffins, Heilan' Coos, Foxes, and my ever favorite (and I even own one of the originals!!!) Hedgehog. You can find her shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BumblebeadCrafts?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Donna Louise Sanders provides fabulous tutorials for her Goddess brooches, earrings and necklaces as well as Christmas ornaments in her shop on <a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/641612282/digital-tutorial-goddess-brooch-tutorial?ref=listing_published_alert&fbclid=IwAR3gR_BH3amCSg_Te8D-CcbZCfB7NrmQvPAF679C5JHSuBRcUoMVEhkWpNs" target="_blank">Etsy</a> and her Payhip shop. One of her designs that makes me grin like a loon is the Big Girl Panties brooch, which is a free download you can find <a href="https://payhip.com/b/TE6r?fbclid=IwAR3XP-AnffvnVf0J0UtmXxt0W26WMkMnbHimXuIWzXEmM9UcjgUGUwASEfg" target="_blank">HERE</a>. (We all need some of these, don't we??? ;) )<br />
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Tamara Scott Designs has the Lizzie lizard tutorial that caught my eye. You can find that <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/85490550/bead-pattern-pdf-lizzie-bead-embroidery?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=bead%20embroidery%20tutorial&ref=sc_gallery-1-4&plkey=06c05f3863c513ec5d2b4dc105133c9db25f27cf:85490550" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Eva Csizmaadia Lajosne of Vicus on Etsy has stunning design tutorials for barrettes, cuffs, earrings, necklaces - AND she sells some lovely components as well. You can find her <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Vicus?ref=l2-shopheader-name&section_id=17253166" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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If all of that isn't enough inspiration, I highly recommend wandering over to Pinterest (if you have half a day or so to spare - you'll get lost!) and putting bead embroidery into the search. I hope this kick starts your November beading, and hope to see you soon! I'm off to see if I can figure out the ending to this cuff....<br />
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NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-65809777997005045202018-10-01T08:31:00.002-04:002018-10-01T08:31:19.359-04:00October Beading PromptHappy autumn, everyone! Fall is my favorite time of year and we've been out and about taking the dogs for lovely long walks and enjoying the air and the fact that we can wear long sleeves without sweating our brains out. I hope you're enjoying your weather, too, wherever you are. <br />
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September's break was a good one for me, and I hope all of you had some fabulous 'free' time with your beads. If you're in the group, I would love to see what you got up to over the month, please feel free to post a pic!<br />
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October's prompt is the stitch I learned first - the very first thing I ever beaded; brick stitch. It was the gateway to beads for me, and so it holds a special place in my heart. I actually don't have ANY photos of brick stitch that I made, I looked and looked, and they're all gone! But I must have made thirty or forty pairs of earrings, and then I made barrettes in the shape of three hearts across in brick stitch and sewed them onto felt and glued them to barrette blanks. One in particular sticks out for me - it was a white background and the hearts were in rainbow colors, and it was given to a little girl who saw it one day and was just so unhappy when her mom couldn't afford to buy it. I couldn't let her walk away without it! It made me massively happy to be able to make her smile that day.<br />
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I found a few wonderful tutorials, if on the off chance you haven't already learned this stitch - and they're REALLY wonderful. I mean, lookit this: Sian Nolan's fabulous Hens in Heels!!! You can find it in her shop, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/628094890/hens-in-heels-3d-brick-stitchpeyote?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=brick%20stitch%20beading%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-11&organic_search_click=1" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Then there is the marvelous Laura Boudlouche Zeiner's Enchanted Evenings necklace tutorial, which I simply love. Elegant, but oh so sparkly! You can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/80526211/beading-tutorial-enchanted-evenings?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=brick%20stitch%20beading%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-21&organic_search_click=1" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Tamara Scott Designs has a cuff tutorial that features brick stitched components in a beautiful design called Elegant Garden <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/75905568/designs-pdf-bead-pattern-elegant-garden?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=brick%20stitch%20beading%20tutorial&ref=sc_gallery-1-5&plkey=7d1259b31b70976fee8ea0a1f72e60b76e574c85:75905568" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Crystal Star Gems (Tracey Lorraine) has this gorgeous ornament - please click through to the listing to see the photos of this beauty and how it morphs! Fuchsia Flower can be found <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/602638246/beading-pattern-tutorial-ornament?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=brick%20stitch%20beading%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-26&organic_search_click=1" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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And Heather Collin has a sweet but edgy bracelet called Geared Up <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/68302421/beading-patterns-bracelet-tutorials?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=brick%20stitch%20beading%20tutorial&ref=sc_gallery-1-9&plkey=2885bf505e636cbde1bf0a7fdcd9358388235fdf:68302421" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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So that's it for me, I hope you find this month's prompt inspiring! Happy beading, all!NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-52369252297542311052018-09-01T06:52:00.002-04:002018-09-01T06:52:12.650-04:00September Beady prompt - or notHi all. I'm taking a bit of a break for September, but will be back again in October. Life's just a bit nuts at the mo, and a break will do me good - I hope you all have something inspiring on your bead mats this month regardless!! Cheers -- see you soon. :)NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-92208726201529388322018-08-01T04:55:00.000-04:002018-08-01T04:55:29.611-04:00August Beady PromptGood summer, friends! At least, I hope yours has been. Mine has been busy, but also SO rainy. There are maybe three days of sun and bearable temps and then a loooooooong stretch of rain and thunderstorms - so frustrating when you need to see that sunny day! If you've been having lots of rain too, I hope that the beachy theme from July helped to get you through.<br />
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August promises to start off hot and humid and FULL of thunderstorms (for the next five days in VT) and so I thought I would pick one of my favorite things for this month's challenge so that I might be tempted to get my beads out and stick with the air conditioning happily rather than sitting in it with a mighty sense of frustration (so much that needs doing in the yard!).<br />
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One of my favoritest things are spirals - in any form, whether in nature, or in art, or in beads. I LURVE spirals. They speak to me of all the infinite things that are good. They speak of ancient, lovely things. They make me happy. So August shall be Spiral month - any way you like. Spiral beads (have you seen those? pressed glass beads that look like shells!), or spirals in the form of ammonite cabochons, or spiral motifs, or spiral ropes. <br />
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There are lots of different spiral rope stitches - Russian spiral, regular spiral, cellini spiral, double and triple spiral, spiraling (twisted) herringbone - and tons of variations of patterns in all stitches that include spiral motifs. I'm sure I haven't tackled them all, but I have done quite a few different things with spirals in the past!<br />
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Herringbone with embellished herringbone spiraling around it.</div>
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My Triple Twist has three spiraling ropes in one necklace.</div>
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I found a ton and a half (maybe two tons) worth of spirally sorts of beady things on Etsy with a quick search. These are a few that caught my eye. :)<br />
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Carol Dean Sharpe has a plethora of spiraling, swirly patterns in her shop and this one is one of my faves - the <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SandFibers?ref=l2-shop-info-name&search_query=spiral" target="_blank">LINK</a> will take you to a page full of gorgeous designs:<br />
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This lovely bracelet tutorial really grabbed my attention - Tubular herringbone with a layered twist! I'm purchasing this one myself to try, not only do I love the color combination, but the layer look is wonderful. You can find the pattern <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/616894120/tubular-herringbone-with-a-layered-twist?ref=user_profile" target="_blank">HERE</a>:<br />
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Sevtlana has this fabulous take on spirals <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/552412618/crescent-spiral-bead-pattern-tutorial" target="_blank">HERE</a> that I was soooo intrigued by, what a cool use of crescents!<br />
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And Heather Collin has a lovely pattern for a spiraling cubic right angle weave that I love <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/191087064/beading-patterns-beaded-ropes-spiraling?ref=shop_home_active_2" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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I promise you there are loads more patterns and tutorials out there if you need more inspiration, but I think this taster is a good one for now. AND, if you're part of the Facebook group, I'm going to include a complimentary spiral tutorial in the files section just because. Hope to see lots of spirals popping up this month!! Happy beading, everyone!<br />
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July's prompt is the underwater world - and that's pretty broad, but I thought it would be a great one to use for this vacation-y kind of month. Sea, sand, underwater creatures, fishes, coral... so many things to choose from. If you're into making up your own designs, I highly recommend a Google search of ocean imagery - you will be inspired for YEARS. If you're into doing tutorials, I dug up a few off of Etsy that look fabulous. :)<br />
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Kathy King's necklace tutorial grabbed my eye instantly - this looks so lush and beautiful (and FUN)! She also has kits available with all the necessary beads. The tutorial is<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/595148016/coral-reef-necklace-tutorial?ref=related-1" target="_blank"> HERE</a>.<br />
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The amazing Eleanor Pigman has two tutorials/kits up that would be perfect for this month's theme - a pretty mermaid and an adorable crab! You can find them <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Epigman?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Barbara Briggs has the Sea Dragon Wrist Wrap tutorial (and a kit as well) in her shop -perfect for someone who's loving the geometric beadwork craze. You can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/152283614/tutorial-for-the-sea-dragon-wrist-wrap?ref=shop_home_active_38" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Hannah Rosner created this gorgeous nautilus shell peyote bracelet - you can find the pattern <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/77233707/bead-pattern-nautilus-shell-beaded?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=ocean%20beading%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-29" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Chloe Menage of PinkHot has a wonderful tutorial for a beaded tape measure that features little sea creatures, as well - you can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/589338475/sea-measure-pdf-pattern?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=ocean%20beading%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-40" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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And Sharri Moroshok has her Anemone Beaded Beads in a pattern <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/105257258/beaded-bead-tutorial-instant-download?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=sea%20beading%20tutorial&ref=sc_gallery-1-6&plkey=f6d9e4f740984cf7a5115792536fc04c6751a14a:105257258" target="_blank">HERE</a>. I love these, and have made a few myself with garnet beads - sOOOOooo fun!! <br />
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I hope this month's prompt is inspiring for you - and even that you get a chance to bead something for it in the great outdoors, whether at the beach or at a picnic table, or out in your garden. :) Happy beading, everyone, and see you in August.NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-40281086509287424142018-06-03T03:37:00.000-04:002018-06-03T03:37:19.561-04:00June Beading PromptHello, all! Sorry for the late posting this month! Between allergies and other personal loss things, things have been feeling pretty rough around here for about a week, and I've fallen behind on just about everything... we won't speak of the housework. <br />
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HOWSOMEVER, here I am at last and I think this is a seriously cool prompt - I'm not hesitant to say so because it wasn't my idea, lol! I was running on empty at the end of May and asked for suggestions in the group for things they thought might be interesting. <br />
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June's prompt, therefore, is beaded tassels! What a cool concept and what a gorgeous treasure trove of inspirations I found when I did some searching. I could only think of a very few things I did myself that included a tassel (I'm much more likely to do fringe or drops!) and this is a pic of my favorite, called Water Lily:<br />
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It just so happens that Marcia DeCoster has a design in this month's Bead and Jewelry Magazine featuring a tassel, as well! I believe this is a UK magazine, but ohhhhhh... so tempted!! I have HEARD that they sell single copies in Barnes and Noble, after all. :D<br />
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On Etsy, there are (is?) a plethora of designs to choose from if you don't already have a tassel tutorial in your stash, or if you're not feeling like designing your own. I'm only going to list a few of them, because I double dog dare ya to go and search yourself, if only for the eye candy. <br />
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The lovely Helena Tang-Lim (Maneklady on Etsy) has this luscious Tassel Lariat - tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/262202922/etutorial-tassel-lariat?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=beaded%20tassel%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-7" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Cynthia Newcomer Daniel has a stunning tassel <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/250216885/seed-bead-tutorial-tasseled-twice-lariat?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=beaded%20tassel%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-8" target="_blank">HERE</a> that I love:<br />
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Norma Jean Dell (njdesigns1) has a lovely lariat necklace tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/103086503/beading-tutorial-for-bead-and-tassel?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=beaded%20tassel%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-11" target="_blank">HERE</a> that includes adorable little loop fringes:<br />
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Amanda Connell of BeadiACDesigns has this intricate and opulent pendant tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/536312188/maharaja-tassel-an-intermediate-level-e?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=beaded%20tassel%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-23" target="_blank">HERE</a>:<br />
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Lynn Davy 's Nemesis necklace tutorial is an excellent one for learning to attach a tassel under a lamp worked bead (and who doesn't have a hoard of those saved up?!?!) <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/57187461/beadweaving-tutorial-no-12-nemesis?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=beaded%20tassel%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-28" target="_blank">HERE</a>:<br />
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And Nikia Angel's Tudor necklace with three tassels is just divine, you can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/517915482/tudor-3-tassels-lariatnecklace-tutorial?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=beaded%20tassel%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-44" target="_blank">HERE</a>:<br />
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A big thank you to the group for not only being so patient with me, but for helping me to come up with a really lovely prompt for everyone this month. Be happy, get tasseling!!NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-80209455965943970462018-04-30T04:30:00.000-04:002018-05-01T04:30:21.788-04:00May's Beading PromptHappy May! I BEADED A THING last month!!! Yes, yes, I actually did one of my own prompts, lol. ;) I made an amulet/vessel pendant designed by Donna Louise Sanders of Delicate Sparkles. I love love love this pattern. I'm actually working on a second one now! <br />
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If you're interested, the tutorial is called Juliet's Potion Bottle, and you can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/595010418/digital-tutorial-juliets-potion-bottle?ref=shop_home_active_7" target="_blank">here</a> in Donna's Etsy shop. (She has also just finished a second vessel tutorial that will be my next thing!! You can find that one <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/597308212/digital-tutorial-titanias-secret?ref=shop_home_active_2" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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Soooooooooo... this month's prompt is more like a challenge, really. How many tutorials do you have sitting on your hard drive (or stashed in a file somewhere) that you haven't gotten around to tackling? No, really... how many?? WAY TOO MANY, that's how many! So this month I challenge you to go and look through that huge stack (mine is huge, I bet yours is too) and pick one and DO IT! Bead the thing!! I'm going to show a few of mine that I have sitting there just waiting for me, and of course you could go and buy one of them for yourself (enabler that I am), but the challenge is to grab one you already have. You could always do new ones next month, or after you finish making one from your stash of tutorials... ;)<br />
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I have a huge hoard. This is only the very tippiest tip of the iceberg, here.<br />
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Carol Paris's Northern Star Pods. Love.<br />
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Tutorial is <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/468392971/northern-star-pod-pendants-bracelet?ref=shop_home_active_19" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Gwen Fisher's Cellini Asterisk Pendant. Love.<br />
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Tutorial is <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/261775731/tutorial-cellini-asterisk-pendant-beaded?ref=shop_home_active_20" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Heather Kingsley Heath's Chantry Window Bracelet. Love.<br />
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Tutorial is <a href="https://bamazoo.com/p/chantry-window-bracelet-by-heatherworks-13975" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Helena's La Chiave necklace. Love.<br />
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Tutorial is <a href="https://www.manek-manek.com/shop-55/tutorials/la-chiave.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Martina Nagele's Phoenix Feather Lariat. Love.<br />
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Tutorial is <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/569834678/phoenix-feathers-lariat-pdf-file?ref=shop_home_feat_1" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Sabine Lippert's Bunch of Bangles. Love.<br />
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Tutorial is <a href="https://www.trytobead.com/en/Patterns-and-Kits/Bangles/Bunch-of-Bangles.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Cynthia Newcomer Daniel's Mermaid Bracelet. Love.<br />
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Tutorial is <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/247073047/hubble-stitch-seed-bead-bracelet?ref=shop_home_active_19" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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And that's just a few!!!!! So I dare ya, go dive into your stash. See what you have. Then bead one up!<br />
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March's prompt was embraced by quite a few people and there were some beautiful bezels showing up in the group. At least one person hadn't bezeled before and had a good time trying it out, which made me ridiculously happy. I hope that I will have something to show myself, soon, too. <br />
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April's prompt is amulet bags. I know, I know - people either love them or hate them! But there are so many variations of this that you could go off on, and my take is a little different - to count for the prompt, it basically just needs to be a vessel that can be worn - this would include something along the lines of a locket necklace. (So if you have a locket pattern - now's the time to use it!!) There are many 'bags' that aren't bags at all - one of my favorite ever vessels is one designed for Beading By The Bay by Marcia DeCoster called Cryptex. Is this not GORGEOUS??? The version in this photo was beaded by Cynthia Newcomer Daniel - so elegant.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">And, if you leave the fringe off (which I did), you can simply use it as a vessel to display on your desk or your jewelry shelf. I had soooooooo much fun making this!!</span><br />
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There was a round robin bead a long type thing I participated in years ago, and we made amulet bags then, too - Laura Zeiner's was AHMAZING and ROUND! And the one that was completed for me was just stunning... I have it in my office hanging right in front of my desk so that I can see it all the time. Julie Kitchen Harper made the bag, Darcy Rosner made the strap, Laura Zeiner did the embellishing and Marcia did the fringe. <br />
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There are tons of patterns for peyote beaded amulet bags, some with incredibly detailed graphics, and some with fantastic amounts of embellishment or fringing. Some are huge and some are teeeeeeeeeny tiny. I would love to see what you could come up with in other ways, too - herringbone, RAW, hubble stitch... I have three books in my library dedicated to amulet bags/vessels for wearing, and I'll list them below if you're interested. I encourage a nice search on Etsy as well, there are several really nice peyote patterns listed that would be fun to make. You could also graph out any design you liked yourself, any size, and then bead it up and make it into a necklace. <br />
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Back to Beadin' by Barbara E. Elbe is full of beautiful peyote stitched amulet bags - the diagrams/patterns are in black and white, but there is a section of full color photos to make you drool. Amazon link is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Back-beadin-Elegant-amulet-jewelry/dp/0965362213/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1522536876&sr=8-1&keywords=back+to+beadin" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Beaded Amulet Purses by Nicolette Stessin includes a faaaaaaaantastic amulet in the shape of a triangle with wings (right on the cover) that I adore. The projects inside are by various artists, collated by Nicolette - and there is a gorgeous photo gallery of inspiration in the back of the book. Amazon link is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beaded-Amulet-Purses-Instruction-Inspiration/dp/0964186500/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522536913&sr=1-1&keywords=beaded+amulet+purses" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Thimble Catchers (Vol. 1) by Amy Lot-Kupser (i-bead.com) is adorable and fun - and these really are meant to keep thimbles in. But I think they would make great little amulet bags. You could store a tiny little stone or a message or.... Amazon link is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Thimble-Catchers-Projects-Beginning-Advanced/dp/B00461M17O/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522536948&sr=1-2&keywords=thimble+catcher" target="_blank">HERE</a> - but it's for Vol. II as they seem to have discontinued Vol I.<br />
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And those are just the tip of the iceberg. If you do a little googling, you will find so many different amulets/wearable vessels that your head will spin. ;) I hope you'll try one - and if you aren't in to wearing them most of the time, engineer your strap so you can remove it and use it as a vessel (I know- extra challenge!). Happy beading until next month!!NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-10767967578701258162018-03-01T04:51:00.000-05:002018-03-01T04:51:46.133-05:00March Monthly Beading PromptHappy almost spring, folks! Pretty soon those daffodils will be waving their pretty little heads at all of us here in the northern hemisphere - as soon as we get done digging out of the mud. ;) <br />
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Since this time of year is pretty much all about the returning of the sun, I thought we would do something sparkly and light and fun. March's prompt is to use a bezeled chaton or rivoli in your creation. As a sort of add on - extra 'points' if you come up with a bezel that isn't peyote or right angle weave! Both of those are perfectly valid and acceptable, however, and if those are your most comfortable go-to stitches, feel free to use them. <br />
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I know that bezeling can be challenging for some beaders, especially those just starting out, but it's totally worthwhile to learn if you aren't there yet - the bling alone makes it a must for most of us!<br />
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I had a bit of a poke around various places looking at bezels and came up with a few to share, because - SHINY! Also, if you haven't seen these before, they may tempt you if you haven't tried bezeling yet - and a few of them use different stitches and/or beads than you may have attempted to bezel with previously.<br />
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This is a beautiful pendant by Carol Paris of Bumblebead that uses Superduos to bezel a rivoli. You can find that <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/386813280/crown-flower-pendant-a-beadweaving?ref=shop_home_active_21" target="_blank">HERE</a>, if you'd like to give it a go.<br />
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These lovely bezels are made using flat, two holed Czech triangle beads, and Laura Graham has the tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/186349874/triangle-beaded-rivoli-bezel-earring?ref=shop_home_active_3" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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These dainty seed bead beauties are made by Gwen Fisher and are called mini crowns - you can find the directions <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/202127734/tutorial-beaded-mini-crown-earrings-with?ref=shop_home_active_10" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Cynthia Newcomer Daniel also has a wonderful little pair of star earrings that I love, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/117046197/seed-bead-and-rivoli-earrings-tutorial?ref=shop_home_active_9" target="_blank">HERE</a>, and her netting bezel is gorgeous in its simplicity.<br />
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Kassie Shaw, of The Beading Butterfly, offers these delicate bezeled 12mm rivoli earrings, <a href="http://beadingbutterfly.com/patterns-tutorials/starburst-earrings-tutorial" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Cortney Phillips of Baubles By Cortney has this lush chenille stitch bezel in her tutorial section <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/269055720/christina-bezel-tutorial?ref=shop_home_active_3" target="_blank">HERE</a>. Yes! Chenille to bezel!!<br />
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And last but not least, you can find two different free bezeling tutorials on my website - my Lila Earrings tutorial bezels a chaton, and the Perfect Evening Earrings use various sizes of rivoli. My free tutorials page is <a href="http://www.nedbead.com/NEDbeads/Free_Tutorials.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. (Although you will have to come up with a different drop crystal if you choose to try to make the Lila set, as I can't find a distributor for those lovely long cubic zirconia drops any longer, sadly.) These two are very basic bezels - RAW/herringbone and peyote respectively.<br />
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I hope you enjoy the shiny of this month's prompt, and it brings some glitter to the dreary last gasps of winter. Happy beading!NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-13036685248844353212018-01-31T04:00:00.000-05:002018-01-31T10:02:09.191-05:00February's Beading PromptHappy February, all. I apologize for the lack of a New Year's/January prompt, but hopefully the rest of 2018 will be cooperative and we will have prompts each month on the first. I did put out in the FB group that you could use bead embroidery as a prompt for January but there was no actual prompt or post.<br />
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This month I thought we would work with a stitch that is fairly under-used, but really gorgeous. St. Petersburg chain is slightly daunting to learn at first, but quickly becomes easier with repetition, and results in a beautiful, almost braided, look. It can be worked in single rows, with a wonderfully jagged sort of look, or in double rows for more of a chevron feel. <br />
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Because there are so many steps to the initial stitches, it looks more complex than it is to weave once you get going. I STILL refer to diagrams or my own instructions when I start one, my brain just won't retain the first few steps - but once it's started, it gains a rhythm that can be quite addictive.<br />
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You can make the single chain, a double chain, or hook more and more doubled chains together and come up with very different results. <br />
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This necklace I did awhile back has straps made from the single row - they look like diagonal peyote or little teeth, to me. <br />
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Then there is the doubled chain, which was worked in the traditional manner for this necklace which was designed by Hatsumi Oshitani for Bead & Button magazine (in 2009, I think). (Beadwork by me.)</div>
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I designed In Bloom with St Petersburg chain, but I joined the two strands together differently, so that each of the single chains are made separately and THEN joined. </div>
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There is a free tutorial located on The Spruce that I found, if you haven't ever tried this stitch before, and the link for that is <a href="https://www.thespruce.com/st-petersburg-stitch-tutorial-339815" target="_blank">HERE</a>. There are various other free ones around, too, if you Google - many YouTube videos as well, if you're more of a video leaning learner. If you'd like to support your small business designer, Valorie Clifton has a very reasonably priced St Petersburg workshop tutorial (photo below) on Etsy <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/209724177/beading-tutorial-pack-st-petersburg?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=st%20petersburg%20stitch%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery-1-20" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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When I searched through Etsy I didn't see very many, but I did find three that I thought were absolutely excellent - Twyla Harbick has this GORGEOUS lariat tutorial using stunning etched dagger beads as accents:</div>
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This month's post is going to be quite short, because this is a 'free' month. I'm not posting a prompt for December, as it's SUCH a hectic time for everyone, and because I would like to start the new year with a prompt on the first of each month rather than the 20th - which wouldn't leave a lot of time to complete a December prompt in any case.<br />
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There were a few votes in the group for wanting a prompt, so I did come up with a suggestion which you can use or not as you see fit - bead something with a metallic in it, something sparkly and exciting with golds or silvers, bronze or copper included with your happy colors. Use a mixed metals palette! Bronze, gold, and copper together look stunning, as does a mix of gold and silver or bronze and gold. <br />
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In closing out the year, it would be awesome if you took a moment to sit and think about what inspired you most with your beading this year - was it a specific design or pattern by a favorite designer? A new (to you) bead shape? Using a color you hadn't tried before? Learning a new stitch that you always wanted to master? I'd love to hear about it, whether here in the comments or in the FB group.<br />
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I'm so pleased that folks have enjoyed this year's prompts and even more pleased that I did manage to bead a little - not enough, but a little. I hope that the new year brings me some inspiration and some new designs and some excitement around the beads, and I intend to come up with prompts to get myself beading some more!<br />
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This month's prompt has NOTHING to do with the holidays, which may enrage you or please you mightily, depending on your outlook on holidays. If you're looking for holiday fun, I totally recommend Jean Power's Secret Beadalong - it looks like mega amounts of fun. IF, however, you're into just regular everyday beady awesomeness, look no further, for we are about to embark upon... Beaded Beads! Yes indoodly, this month's prompt is to use those tiny little bitsy beads and turn them into bigger, more complicated beads! <br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Beaded bead designed by Gwen Fisher</span></div>
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My first foray into beading was actually earrings, but I became wildly obsessed with vessels, and then even more wildly obsessed with beaded beads. Oh my, the possibilities! The intricacy! The visual and tactile textures! Ahhhhhh!! Those addictive, gorgeous spheres of beadiness.<br />
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There are a bazillion and one tutorials out there for making these beauties - you may already have a favorite - so I can't possibly include them all, but I have hand selected a few to offer if you haven't tried making these but would love to.<br />
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What better way to start off than with beaded bead extraordinaire Sharri Moroshok? I have admired her work for simply ages, and when I found out that she was making tutorials I RAN to her shop! These are just two examples of the stunningness you can find in her shop:<br />
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The first photo shows Sharri's Signature beaded bead - the first one I laid eyes on in a beading magazine. You can find that tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/153306672/beaded-bead-tutorial-sharris-signature?ref=shop_home_active_17" target="_blank">HERE</a>. The second is her Sparkly Plenty Pumpkin bead tutorial (which seems apt for our time of year) and you can grab that one <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/494901615/sparkle-plenty-pumpkin-peyote-stitch?ref=shop_home_feat_2" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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Onward to Carol Dean Sharpe's shop, SandFibers! Here you will find the wonderful Blooming Beads, Volume One <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/62387396/blooming-beads-volume-one-a-sand-fibers?ga_search_query=Blooming+Bead+Pattern&ref=shop_items_search_1" target="_blank">tutorial</a>, which contains the instructions to make several variations of this self supporting peyote stitched bead:</div>
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Then there are the gorgeously imagined and realized beaded beads by magician Cindy Holsclaw of Bead Origami. OMgoodness, these are so rich and luscious!! And these are just a FEW of the beaded bead tutorials available on her site. This is the Disco Beaded Bead Bundle pack - you get the instructions for all three of these <a href="http://www.beadorigami.com/patterns/disco_bundle.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Akke Jonkhof of Akkeieraden has several beautiful beaded bead tutorials for sale, including this amazing construction with Rulla beads (you can find the tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/169868622/english-pattern-for-the-beaded-bead-roi?ref=shop_home_active_5" target="_blank">HERE</a>):</div>
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And, I must include this tutorial by Cynthia Newcomer Daniel, called Luscious Layers (which you can find <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/159851292/beaded-bead-tutorial-luscious-layers?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">HERE</a> in her Jewelry Tales shop) because it was one of my all time favorite ones to make. I had SO MUCH FUN with this!! And I can't find my photo, lol - but here is Cynthia's photo, and isn't it fabulous??!?!?</div>
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And Tracey Lorraine of Crystal Star Gems on Etsy has a glamorous cube beaded bead that I just adore (it would look incredible just by itself on a gold chain!) <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/271445723/beading-pattern-cube-beaded-bead?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=beaded%20bead%20tutorials&ref=sr_gallery_36" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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I did a few more things with Chenille before I switched gears... I wanted to see if I could do a version of a Color Play Rope (I wrote a blog post about them back <a href="http://nedbeads.blogspot.com/2011/10/colorplay-ropes-cubic-right-angle-weave.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>, it's my take on a freeform-ish CRAW rope) in Chenille, and it worked! I really had fun with it, and I enjoyed working in a color way I don't use a lot - caramel and green apple. (And now I'm hungry, lol!)<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">And then a mostly filled in rope using my Regency Bangle/Rope as a jumping off point, and a gorgeous bead made by Julie Schmidt-Bowen (who has beads for sale HERE if you're tempted - and I bet you are). I used my favorite 457 and matte </span>iris blue/purple seeds and fire polish.<br />
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I tried and tried to like Flat Chenille, but I just couldn't get myself going on it. So I went and researched Pondo Stitch a bit, and ended up making this bracelet - but haven't yet found a suitable clasp.<br />
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THEN, I began working in earnest for October's prompt. Which is... Hubble Stitch!! Hubble was invented by bead genius Melanie de Miguel - she has not one but TWO books devoted to Hubble Stitch. Once you've gotten the hang of it, it's completely and utterly compelling and addictive. I set out to work my way through both of her books and do at least a swatch of each and every variation and project in every chapter.<br />
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If you haven't gotten Melanie's books yet, I can't recommend them enough. This stitch is so versatile! And so fun!! And has such a wonderful feel to it, both while you're stitching and when you're done. You can make flat pieces, dimensional pieces, ropes, bangles... you name it. These are some of the beautiful projects Melanie has made, both from the books and as workshops (all photos are Melanie's, and used with her permission):<br />
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The first book is called Let's Hubble, and you can grab it on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Hubble-Journey-Beadwork-Stitch/dp/1909116475/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1508417132&sr=8-3&keywords=hubble+stitch" target="_blank">HERE</a> if you don't have a copy yet. The book describes the bones of the stitch and then takes you through variations and projects with extremely clear instructions, photos and diagrams (as well as a sense of humor and the feeling that the author is sitting right there with you as you bead). Hubble is constructed in units, just as right angle weave is constructed in units - but it is not right angle weave. It's a creature unto itself and it's awesome! The very first row can be challenging as you are just starting out, but once you've gotten into the rhythm, it gets easier and easier.<br />
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Marcia DeCoster has also designed with Hubble, in both her fabulous Cryptex vessel necklace, and her amazing Wind Beneath My Wings bracelet. (Both of these are workshops and unavailable as kits or tutorials right now.)<br />
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I made it alllllll the way through Melanie's first book, Let's Hubble! and I enjoyed every single swatch and project. With some practice, I was Hubbling in no time. Here are my swatches:<br />
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The final project is Solar Flare, a fantastic pendant (Melanie's photo):<br />
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I can't seem to get my tension right on this one, and need to work on it much more. I have a hard time figuring out how to hold it while I stitch. Mine looks rather sad, here:<br />
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But I messaged Melanie on Facebook (she is incredibly helpful and patient and friendly), and she has given me some pointers, both on bezeling and working in the round. I will be trying Solar Flare again, and with her help I'm positive I will do better.<br />
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Book Two is called Hubble Stitch 2 - Further Adventures into Planet Hubble and is available in both hardback and Kindle formats (yay! I grabbed the Kindle version for my iPad) <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hubble-Stitch-Further-Adventures-Planet/dp/1909116726/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1508425507&sr=8-2&keywords=hubble+stitch" target="_blank">HERE</a>. It brings Hubble to a new level, with gorgeous projects and variations on Wave Hubble. And for me, Wave Hubble was actually easier to master than the original Hubble - the units flip upside and downside, and the beginning rows are a BREEZE. If you have tried Hubble and have had problems with your first row, I highly encourage you to grab this second book and give Wave Hubble a try. You won't be sorry!<br />
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I made it most of the way through Hubble Stitch 2, but I got sidetracked once I reached Chapter 6, which deals with Horizontal Wave Hubble Ropes. I fell madly, madly in love with these ropes and made a total of six bracelets so far - five in the original format and one in Double Wave Hubble. Once I had the technique down in size 11s, I had to immediately do some in size 15s, and I added in True 2 fire polish beads. These are sooooooo meditative and soothing and calming, and at the same time so fulfilling and exciting! <br />
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My swatches from Hubble Stitch 2:<br />
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And my stack of Horizontal Wave Hubble Ropes - squeeeee!! :) The second photo shows a wrap bracelet I made with WH, and added in some lamp work beads by Julie Cannon. You can wear it as a necklace, too, but I really like it better as a bracelet.<br />
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I hope you decide to take on Hubble or Wave Hubble (because ROPES!!!!), and that you have a great time with it this month. In case you're looking for a place to share things or ask questions, Melanie has a page on FaceBook just for Hubble <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HubbleStitch/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. See you around in our group or just on social media, and see you next month! :)<br />
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<br />NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-67445635231170165832017-09-19T04:00:00.000-04:002017-09-20T04:26:35.470-04:00September's Beady PromptHelllllooooooo, and sorry that the blog posts skipped! I posted directly on Facebook and in the beady prompts group last month due to some personal stuff going on - I just didn't have the energy to write a whole blog. The prompt last month was for Dutch Spiral Stitch, and it was a pretty good hit! I'm happy to be able to say that several people tried it, who hadn't ever done so before. :) I did a few myself, too.<br />
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This is Angie Martin's beautiful take on the stitch (Angie is also known as Nanny Pink's Passion on Etsy and you can find her tutorials - this one in particular - <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/557764751/pdf-tutorial-champagne-twist-beaded-bead" target="_blank">HERE</a>):<br />
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Amanda Connell of BeadiACDesigns on Etsy (her brand new shop is<a href="https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/BeadiACDesigns?ref=seller-platform-mcnav" target="_blank"> HERE</a>) made this lovely creation:</div>
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Kate Larson is on her second rope now, and coming along fabulously:<br />
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And my two that I did during the month:<br />
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If YOU haven't tried it yet, I highly recommend it! It's a fun project which can easily be customized, depending on your bead choices.<br />
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Onward to this month's prompt!! I asked if the folks in the group were sick of ropes yet, and got a fairly resounding 'No' so I picked another one I really enjoy - Chenille Stitch! As soon as I put down my Dutch Spiral I was into Chenille stitch in a big way, and actually made a ton of them - with a variation. I intend to make a few more this month!<br />
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Chenille can be made with lots of different sizes of beads, although doing one all in size 15 would probably be challenging (now why does that make me want to do one right away?!?). I think it's one of the most relaxing stitches I know, and not hard to learn, especially if you've done herringbone. Once you get the hang of it, it's a lovely rhythm, similar in my mind to peyote, even though it's roots are in herringbone.<br />
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Since there are many things to be done with chenille, I've included a few tutorials and links to different kinds of projects using the stitch. You absolutely don't have to buy any of them to participate in the prompt, but since they're gorgeous AND fun, I wanted to include them. <br />
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So, basic chenille in the round (tubular) can be found <a href="https://www.interweave.com/article/beading/stitch-pro-how-to-do-chenille-stitch/" target="_blank">HERE</a> at Interweave by Jean Campbell.<br />
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Basic FLAT chenille stitch can be found <a href="https://www.interweave.com/article/beading/how-to-do-flat-chenille-stitch/" target="_blank">HERE</a> at Interweave by Jean Cox. <br />
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A wonderful tutorial on blending your colors for your rope can be found <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/558589311/beaded-gradation-rope-in-chenille-stitch?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">HERE</a> by Marsha Wiest-Hines of Haute Ice Beadwork on Etsy - how gorgeous are these?!?!?<br />
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Tracey Lorraine has used chenille with fantastic effect <a href="http://www.crystalstargems.com/collections/bracelet-tutorials/products/kaleidoscope-bracelet-tutorial-4f7" target="_blank">HERE</a> in her Kaleidoscope Bracelet:<br />
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Jeanne Evans had a fabulous necklace project published in Beadwork Magazine in the December 2014/January 2015 issue! If you have that magazine, you can grab it out and try her necklace AND some of her variations!<br />
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Cortney Philips of Baubles By Cortney came up with a stunning bangle bracelet that uses this stitch in an ingenious way:<br />
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You can find Cortney's Kelly Bangle <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/270067009/kelly-bangle-tutorial?ref=shop_home_active_3" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Sabine Lippert has come up with a variation of the flat stitch that I LOVE in her Firenze bracelet, which can be found <a href="https://www.trytobead.com/en/Patterns-and-Kits/Bracelets/Firenze.html" target="_blank">HERE</a> on her Trytobead site. (Also, chenille AND rivolis?!?! Who can resist?!?!)<br />
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And here is my Regency chenille variation, which uses Demi Beads and creates a pretty, quite easy to stitch up bangle or rope! You can grab my tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/558392817/regency-banglerope-tutorial?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">HERE</a> if you're so inclined.<br />
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My friend Sarah Tucker has made one using size 15 beads in place of the Demi Round beads, and it looks FABULOUS! <br />
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I tried it this evening myself, and size 15s work perfectly well in the pattern, and don't increase your bangle size noticeably - so if you like the look of the bangle and don't have (or don't want) Demi beads in your stash, you can simply use 15s in place of the Demis in each step.<br />
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And I made this rope (which ended up a whopping 48") that includes both regular chenille and my variation of the stitch in it:<br />
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I hope you find some inspiration here, and give Chenille Stitch a try if you haven't already - or revisit it if you have! NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-6805832854684560872017-07-19T04:00:00.000-04:002017-07-20T05:45:18.024-04:00July Beady PromptHappy Summer, all! I hope you're having a good time in the sun and enjoying the warmer weather, and if you're on the other side of the world, I hope you're enjoying your late autumn weather (which is my favorite)! <br />
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Last month's CRAW prompt seemed to be a fun one for the folks in the group - we had some really wonderful work showing up, and it was definitely fun for me. I decided to start one of my Color Play ropes in my favorite bead soup colors (which I always name Universe in my head, because it makes me think of deep space for some reason) with some of my hoarded lamp work beads;<br />
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I do plan on finishing it, and have even bought a few more bead soups from the lovely Beverly Ash Gilbert to make a few more down the road, just because they are hugely fun for me. :) (If you would like to check out some of Beverly's soups for yourself - and who wouldn't? - her shop and her remaining soups are <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BeverlyAshGilbert?ref=shop_name_search_sugg" target="_blank">HERE</a>.)<br />
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July's prompt is herringbone stitch - also known as Ndebele stitch. It makes a gorgeous pattern all on it's own done completely in seed beads, and can be used successfully with many of the newer shaped beads as well. It can be a supple and sinuous rope, both straight and twisted, or a lovely flat base for embellishment, and when reinforced well, it can even be a beaded bead. It's slightly fiddly in my experience, in that you have to make sure that the two beads you're adding sit properly before you move to the next stitch, but I find it sooooooo worth the extra attention. <br />
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There are a metric buttload of tutorials for herringbone out there, I can't possibly share them all to inspire you. But here are a few that I particularly like.<br />
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Lynn Davy has two up that I think are just so pretty - and the first one, rather than herringbone along the length, is herringbone along with width, which turns out so beautifully! (And I never would have thought of it myself...) This is a photo of her Wave Cuff Tutorial, which you can find <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/189453425/wave-cuff-tutorial-beadweaving-tutorial" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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And her Tweed Cuff tutorial, which shows you how to add in lots of texture with different kinds of beads can be found <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/50203036/beadweaving-tutorial-no-17-tweed-cuff" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Carol Ohl has a wonderful tutorial that shows how to use some of our lamp worked beads in a herringbone rope called Village Lampwork Necklace, which you can find <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/253563804/village-lampwork-necklace-tutorial-by" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Cynthia Newcomer Daniel has LOTS of tutorials that utilize herringbone, like this lovely lacy necklace<br />
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and this fabulous Lagoon beaded bead. You can find them both in her shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/JewelryTales?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Melissa Grakowsky Shippee has this amazing Princess Victoria bracelet tutorial up, such a fantastic combination of stitches!! You can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/471522067/princess-victoria-downloadable-pdf" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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In my own shop, I have the Royal Herringbone Ropes tutorial, which uses two holed Dobble beads in one rope and 6mm rounds in the other. (You can use single hole 8mm rounds in place of Dobbles, too.) <br />
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I've done a number of things with herringbone and enjoyed each of them a lot. I hope you find this month's prompt to be something that excites your muse! Happy beading until next month!NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-60438927928108238132017-06-20T04:00:00.000-04:002017-06-20T04:00:18.549-04:00June's Beading PromptHellooooooo out there! How has your month been? I hope it's been a good one. :) Here I am back to frustrate... er INSPIRE you again! Last month's fringe prompt brought out some really beautiful pieces in the group. I hope some of you out there in blog land tried your hands at it, too. <br />
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This month may bring some consternation to a few people, but it's one of my absolute favorites and so I *had* to go there... Cubic Right Angle Weave. This stitch is so incredibly versatile, and expands your knowledge base so much, that I had to have it in here somewhere this year. In some cases it can be straight and rigid and can make for lovely crisp lines in your work, but in other applications it can be flowing and drapey and provide sensuous curves. It can encircle and wrap, or it can stand on it's own. It can be made with such a soft hand that it becomes a fabric, or it can be made with tight tension to make a sturdy platform. Peyote stitch is the only other stitch I can think of that has so many possibilities inherent in it.<br />
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There are several thread paths that can be used to stitch CRAW - the one that I was taught straight out of the gate which uses the clockwise/counter clockwise right angle weave path, and the one I learned from Heather Collin, which uses a more circular (but linear) path. My own personal thread path is a combination of the two; I do the first three parts of the unit (cube) Heather's way and then the last two parts traditionally. (Yes, I know, I'm weird - but it's totally ingrained now, and I do it automatically, lol. ) I think that however you get there, it's CRAW, and it's wonderful! <br />
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If you haven't tackled this yet, I know it's intimidating. But there are FABULOUS tutorials out there that will help you learn it, and I guarantee that you won't regret learning it. It expands your beady vocabulary and opens whole new vistas. So the first two links I'm sharing are beginning tutorials that will get you started on your way. The first is a link to Marcia's fantastic video by Interweave, which happens to be on sale for a great price right now - Cubic Right Angle Weave With Marcia DeCoster: Fundamentals, can be found <a href="https://www.interweave.com/store/cubic-right-angle-weave-with-marcia-decoster-fundamentals#customer-reviews" target="_blank">HERE</a> and is a wonderful basis to grow from. Marcia's method is the traditional method. Many new to CRAW beaders started their journey just recently with the LOVE letters on Marcia's BeadLove Blog, as well. If you'd like to try your hand and haven't seen those posts yet, you can find them <a href="http://lovebeadlove.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a>, just keep scrolling through the posts to get to the first four posted.<br />
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Heather Collin's CRAW tutorials can be found on her YouTube channel <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/beading183/videos" target="_blank">HERE</a>, and not only does she show you the basic rope with her thread path, but also how to create a frame and how to add rows to an existing rope. And she has positively TONS of glorious CRAW tutorials in her Etsy shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/81041986/beading-pattern-instructions-tutorials?ref=shop_home_active_13" target="_blank">HERE</a>, such as this yummmmmmmmmy Sugar Cube tutorial!<br />
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If you're already an old hand at CRAW, you still may not have found some of these gorgeous tutorials yet, and so I wanted to share them (and if you search Etsy for cubic right angle weave beading tutorial you will find about a million more!):<br />
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Sian Nolan has this lovely Picket Fence Bracelet tutorial that I love; you can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/188194359/picket-fence-bracelet-pattern-cubic?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=cubic%20right%20angle%20weave%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery_14" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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This tutorial by Helena Lang-Tim, called Il Braccialetto della Marchesa just blows my mind... so much beauty. You can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/196928845/etutorial-il-braccialetto-della-marchesa?ref=shop_home_active_37" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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A variation on standard CRAW, Gwen Fisher has written this outstanding and unique tutorial on Twisted CRAW - so pretty!! You can find it <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/165934071/tutorial-twisted-cubic-right-angle-weave?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=cubic%20right%20angle%20weave%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery_34" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Another variation of CRAW, Valorie Clifton has <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/150151758/beading-tutorial-modified-cubic-right?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=cubic%20right%20angle%20weave%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery_17" target="_blank">THIS</a> terrific Tribulations bracelet:<br />
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And Kassie Shaw has her awesome Toblerone bracelet in her Etsy shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/104103950/toblerone-bracelet-tutorial-modified?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=cubic%20right%20angle%20weave%20tutorial&ref=sr_gallery_16" target="_blank">HERE</a>:<br />
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And last but hopefully not least, I have two tutorials myself, one for sale in my shop and the other a freebie which you can find either on my blog or on my website. Juliet is a necklace I designed years ago using CRAW and it's still one of my favorites. You can find the tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/126986585/juliet-a-beadweaving-tutorial?ref=shop_home_feat_1" target="_blank">HERE</a>. <br />
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And I did a post about making Color Play Ropes here on the blog - these necklaces use bead soup or any leftover beads you may have hanging around in a really textural rope that's fun to stitch up. It shows how to add in single beads on your strand of CRAW, and how to embellish a bit. You can find that post <a href="http://nedbeads.blogspot.com/2011/10/colorplay-ropes-cubic-right-angle-weave.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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And if you have Jane Lock's wonderful book The Art of Beadwork, I have a bracelet project in there in CRAW, too. I hope you have found some inspiration here, or, if you haven't tried it before, you're feeling brave and want to give it a go! Go CRAW happily! I hope to see your pieces in the FB group, or if you have a blog and do a post with a piece from the prompt, leave me a comment with a link!NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-56080817596223495732017-05-20T04:00:00.000-04:002017-05-20T04:36:16.146-04:00May's Beading PromptHelllooooooo lovely peoples! Today's post may be slightly shorter than some of them, I have managed to slam my finger into a door today and typing is challenging, ha ha ha. Regardless, last month's prompt brought forth some really beautiful ruffles, and it was a ton of fun for me to see them popping up in the group. AND, even more folks have been trying their hands at beaded rocks, and whoa! they're gorgeous! My husband grabbed some photos of my rock, so I can show that this is how mine came out. I really enjoyed the ruffle at the top, and then I just HAD to add fringe.<br />
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And that's this months prompt! Fringe! I looooooooove fringe. I do realize that there are many people who detest it, or at least detest making it, but for me it's always been a love affair. All that swingy, delicious, seductive movement. I could add 500 photos for inspiration, but I'm only going to share a few, and then a few tutorials I came up with that showcase some pretty fringes if you want to try your hand at making some yourself, and haven't before.<br />
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There are lots of kinds of fringe, you have so many choices you could make. Long fringe, short fringe, ruffly fringe, leafy fringe, coral-fringe, twisted fringe... One of the best places to start, if you haven't already, would be The Art of Bead Embroidery by Heidi Kummli and Sherry Serafini. They show their various kinds of fringe techniques really clearly, and Heidi has a special way of doing one of her methods that I hadn't heard of before. (Nope, not telling - you'll have to get the book! You can grab one on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Art-Bead-Embroidery-Heidi-Kummli/dp/0871162431/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1495231273&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Art+of+Bead+Embroidery" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;">Another wonderful set of resources would be Jamie Cloud Eakin's books on bead embroidery and working with cabochons. She shows SO many different ways to fringe! (Get Beading with Cabochons here, or Dimensional Bead Embroidery, or Bead Embroidery Jewelry Projects </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Jamie+Cloud+Eakin" style="text-align: center;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="text-align: center;">.)</span><br />
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Some of my favorite long fringed pieces that I have made include Dryad (oh how well I remember this bead soup and how MANY different kinds of beads I had to choose from), October's Goddess, and Reflections. All of these feature bead soup 'mixed' fringe rather than symmetrical and 'counted' fringe. <br />
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But there are also cases of SHORT fringing that can look really good as well, on necklaces and bracelets as well as earrings. Short fringes can be as short as stop stitches, really (a larger bead, a small bead, pass back through the larger bead while skipping over the smaller), or even just a bit longer. Universe is one of those that combines some long with some short. Climbing Roses and Spring Buds are almost all very short fringes coming off of either herringbone or CRAW. My Ice necklace is all short fringe created very densely on top of a herringbone rope.<br />
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You can also use chain as fringe with your beaded pieces, something that Marcia DeCoster does magnificently. Marcia's Beads In Motion book includes her Swing Dance Earrings, which use chain for glorious movement in a really innovative way.<br />
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And these wonderful Bella earrings (I own a pair!!! Made by Marcia!!!):<br />
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You can find Marcia's beautiful Bella Earring Tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/465846620/bella-earrings-tutorial" target="_blank">here</a>, which shows how to make that superb draped fringe with chain.<br />
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Mortira VanPelt of Sage's Cupboard has a fabulous tutorial for leafy fringe cascading from a herringbone rope. You can find that <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/69190826/necklace-beading-tutorial-leaf-fringe" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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For a larger project, Lynn Davy of Nemeton has a tutorial for her wonderful Jungle Collar <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/51829034/beadweaving-tutorial-no-9-jungle-collar?ref=shop_home_active_10" target="_blank">here</a>, which combines fabulous fringing with her netting technique.<br />
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I hope you'll try fringing, if you haven't before. Even if you do short, spiky fringe, it can really add a spark (and sparkle!) to your pieces. I haven't QUITE decided if I'm working on another rock (with fringe of course) or a pendant or maybe a bracelet... hmmmmm. <br />
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<br />NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-50481157167439230452017-04-20T04:00:00.000-04:002017-04-20T04:00:29.204-04:00April's Beading PromptHello and happiness, everyone! I was thrilled that so many people enjoyed last month's prompt. The FB group was really active, and many of the members went ahead and tried their hand at beading good ol' rocks with some really spectacular results, and there were also some really beautiful bezeled cabochons. I thought that since there was so much lovely happening, I would share some here on the blog. (Grab a cup of something you love to drink and scroll... and scroll... and scroll, lol!! It's a long post with a LOT of eye candy.)<br />
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I think everyone deserves a huge round of applause - what a lot of gorgeous work!! And here is mine, too - still in progress. <br />
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It needs some more coverage and then some embellishment... which brings me to this month's prompt! RUFFLES. Beady ruffles. When the idea struck me to add some ruffles to my rock, it seemed like it would work as April's prompt as well as helping me finish the project. You would think there would be LOTS of ruffles out there in Planet Bead, but really, you'd be wrong, lol. It took some digging to find ruffles, but I did come up with some you can try out, if you're of a mind to.<br />
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First off, there is a very nice basic (and free) tutorial by Mortira Vanpelt on the Inspirational Beading Blog for Ogalala stitch. This was maybe the third stitch I learned, and it was a lot of fun. You can add sooooooooo many different beads into this to come up with different looks! You can find her tutorial <a href="http://inspirationalbeading.blogspot.com/2013/01/beading-tutorial-ogalala-netting.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Then, if you're loving ruffles the way I love ruffles (only beaded ones, though - I look hideous in actual ruffles), you HAVE to love these wonderful tutorials by Shelley Nybakke of SturdyGirlDesigns on Etsy. The first is called the Sparkling Waves Bracelet.<br />
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And then there is the EPIC Until I Can Breathe Again necklace...</div>
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If you'd like to make one of these delicious designs, you can find Shelley's shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/SturdyGirlDesigns?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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Another lovely ruffly design is this Atlantis bracelet by Hannah Rosner of HannahRachel on Etsy. I can imagine this in so many different colors! </div>
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If you'd like to try this out, the tutorial can be found <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/62944502/recently-updated-bead-tutorial-atlantis" target="_blank">HERE</a>. And, if you're going to be there, Hannah is also teaching a beautiful bracelet at Bead and Button called Royal Ruffles - photo below - and here is the <a href="http://www.beadandbuttonshow.com/store/class/b170780" target="_blank">LINK</a> to her class if you want to sign up. )</div>
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Sabine Lippert also has a stunning bracelet full of ruffles, called Aattetur. I LOVE this. </div>
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You can find Sabine's tutorial for that gloriousness <a href="http://www.trytobead.com/en/Patterns-and-Kits/Bracelets/Aattetur.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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And finally, the wonderful Beverly Herman of NoEasyBeads on Etsy has gifted our FB group with the pattern for her stunning Passion Flower Pendant. It is incredibly kind of her, and this is a fabulous piece to bead up - especially if you're new to ruffles and want to see if they're for you. If you're in the Facebook group, you can go to the Files section and you will find the PDF that Beverly has given us. (You can also go to her Etsy shop and purchase this PDF if you would prefer to support her beady habits, or if you aren't a member of the group, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/232304506/passion-flower-pendant-instructions-pdf" target="_blank">HERE</a>.)<br />
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Beverly was also kind enough to let me use a photo of a bracelet she made in a class with Gail Crosman Moore - this is called a Grapevine Cuff, and you can find Gail's tutorial on the Interweave site <a href="http://www.interweave.com/store/grapevine-cuff" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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That's actually a lot of ruffles to choose from! But you can also just make your own ruffles, of course, or add some onto a rock... just because you can. I added some onto my Turtle Cove rocks along the bottom because I was hoping they would resemble waves. I'm not sure what kind of thing they'll represent on my current rock, we'll have to see how it turns out.<br />
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Carol Wilcox Wells added some ruffles onto a decorative bottle in her Creative Bead Weaving book, too - another beaders' staple that I hope you have in your library. :) I hope some of these have inspired you, and that you have some fun ruffling!<br />
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Happy beading, see you all next month!NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1094887434787326651.post-33741705102701544122017-03-19T02:30:00.000-04:002017-03-20T04:23:58.727-04:00March Beady PromptHellllooooo again! I hope some folks had fun with last month's prompt - it's been pretty quiet in the Facebook group, but I continue to hope that the little ideas are helping someone's muse. I wasn't able to get down to the beads last month, but I've sternly admonished myself that this month I shall make it work.<br />
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Getting down to business, this month's prompt is something that almost always inspires me - Bead A Rock! Since I know that not everyone is quite as excited about beading an actual, normal, boring rock as I am, I am including beading around a semi precious cabochon or donut as Beading A Rock. <br />
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In the last few years I have been collecting little rocks from places my husband and I visit, bringing them home, and encasing them with beads. Sometimes I encase them with freeform peyote, sometimes with freeform right angle weave, sometimes with a combination of both. If you're interested in photos of some of the ones I've done previously, you can find them all in a blog post <a href="http://nedbeads.blogspot.com/2016/01/rocks-and-on-color.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>. This month I plan on using a special beady soup I purchased to encase one in a combination of the two stitches mentioned above. If you're interested in finding out how to encase your own rocks, Karen Williams of Skunk Hill Studios wrote a book on freeform beadwork in which I have a tutorial explaining how I go about it. (The book is also jam packed chock full of other awesomeness, so I recommend it even if you never want to bead a rock!) You can grab the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Explorations-Freeform-Peyote-Beading-Designing/dp/0692244549/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421437767&sr=8-1&keywords=explorations+in+freeform+peyote+beading" target="_blank">HERE</a> on Amazon, or you can get the quick download Ebook <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/260868048/the-complete-e-book-collection?ref=shop_home_active_3" target="_blank">HERE</a> in her Etsy shop. <br />
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This is the rock I made for Karen's book. :)<br />
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I found some really fabulous tutorials/kits around this prompt for beading around cabochons or shaped rocks if you aren't into beading a rock from your driveway, so read on. <br />
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Have you ever seen those gorgeous semi precious egg shaped rocks? Should you happen to have one, or want to go and find one, Helena Tang Lim of Manek-Manek Beads has a stunning tutorial on creating a beaded version of a Faberge Easter Egg in her shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/75349368/etutorial-ode-to-faberge?ref=shop_home_active_25" target="_blank">HERE</a>. (I'm sure you could use a different egg form rather than the semi precious one, which is likely to be expensive, but for this prompt it would really need to be a rock.)<br />
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Betty Stephan Beadwork has AHMAZING tutorials and kits which use semi precious rocks - I especially love this brooch kit. You can purchase any of her things <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/123991623/kit-bloom-and-branches-brown-pin?ref=shop_home_active_28" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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Ella Dess of Ellad2 has a beautiful tutorial in her shop for beading around a semi precious donut - something I keep meaning to do myself, as I have a ton of donuts and Ella's tutorials are wonderful. You can find the tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/93163776/tutorial-donut-mandala-pendant-beading?ref=shop_home_active_24" target="_blank">HERE</a>.<br />
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And the terrifically talented Lynn Davy has a tutorial on capturing a cabochon with right angle weave and peyote <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/51559971/beadweaving-tutorial-2-capture-a?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=pattern%20for%20bezeling%20a%20cabochon&ref=sr_gallery_4" target="_blank">HERE</a> in her Nemeton Etsy shop.<br />
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This is the ordinary little rock I'm starting with - hopefully I will have some in progress pics to show in the FB group, and a finished and ornate rock to show next month. I hope you have fun with the prompt, I can't wait to see what you all come up with! Have fun and happy beading!<br />
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So this month's prompt is to combine two or more stitches in one piece. I have always had a good time trying to get two stitches to work together in a piece, whether it be a beaded bead or a rope or an object. Combining stitches was one of my favorite chapters in Carol Wilcox Wells' book Creative Bead Weaving when I first started; I was fascinated by how she melded right angle weave and peyote, or transitioned from peyote to herringbone, and it became one of my favorite beginnings when designing something myself. I especially love layering one stitch on top of another - say, right angle weave as a base with netting as a layer over the top, which is what I did with my Trellis Necklaces. (Tutorial<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/91999317/tutorial-trellis-necklace?ref=shop_home_active_18" target="_blank"> here</a>.)<br />
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Transitioning from one spiral to another as I did with Triple Twist, also makes me happy. I like how each spiral stitch is made differently from another, yet blend visually when combined in one piece. (Tutorial<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/102115530/beadwoven-necklace-tutorial-triple-twist?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank"> here</a>.)<br />
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Another piece that strikes me always when I think of combining stitches is Sabine Lippert's Bokhara bracelet, a gorgeous combination of peyote stitch with an overlaying layer of fringe that has always made me swoon. SO PRETTY, people!!! (You can find Bokhara <a href="http://www.trytobead.com/en/Patterns-and-Kits/Bracelets/Bokhara.html" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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An ingenious and beautiful piece of work which marries prismatic right angle weave and Pondo stitch, is the Goosebumps bracelet pattern designed by Heather Collin. This one amazes me in lots of ways... Pondo is so lovely, and PRAW is so much fun - not to mention Heather's fabulous use of color! (You can find her tutorial <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/504088247/beading-pattern-instructions-praw-pondo?ref=shop_home_feat_2" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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Tracey Lorraine of Crystal Star Gems has combined peyote, brick stitch and herringbone in her Patience Daisy tutorial, which results in a truly stunning flower. (Tracey's daisy can be found <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/129826904/patience-daisy-tutorial?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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Cynthia Newcomer Daniel has used modified right angle weave and lacy netting to great effect with Moroccan Melodies, creating a structurally sturdy yet visually fragile piece. This bracelet is full of paradox and pleases my nerdy brain no end. (You can find Cynthia's bracelet <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/168653187/seed-bead-lace-cuff-moroccan-melodies?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">here</a>.)<br />
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Freeform beadwork is also a wonderful way to combine stitches, you can use ANY of them together and just have a blast. One of my favorites is to combine peyote and right angle weave - you can go back and forth without a trouble in the world. But I have run across freeform in herringbone and even St. Petersburg stitches before as well - if nothing else, you can put the St. Pete's on top of the other stitches for a fern like effect. Right angle weave on top of bead embroidery is one I like, too - I did that in my Reflections necklace. <br />
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It really doesn't have to be complicated when combining stitches - one easy way would be to make a rope of one stitch and then beaded beads using another. My Meld necklace is a combination of so many stitches I don't think I could remember them all! The rope is a version of Trellis, and the beaded beads are by various different designers including Cynthia, Callie Mitchell and Heather.<br />
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My original idea was to combine herringbone and hubble stitch - I wanted to do a herringbone base rope and do hubble on top, but I couldn't figure out my connections to make it happen smoothly - if you decide to try this, please do show the results!! If you aren't familiar with hubble stitch yet, please let me point you to Melanie de Miguel's <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Lets-Hubble-Journey-Beadwork-Stitch/dp/1909116475" target="_blank">Let's Hubble </a>and <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hubble-Stitch-Further-Adventures-Planet/dp/1909116726/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1487524536&sr=1-1&keywords=hubble+stitch+2" target="_blank">Hubble Stitch II</a> books. FUUUUUUUN!!!<br />
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So, grab two stitches you adore and smack them together and see what happens!! If you're part of my Facebook group, I will be posting a coupon code for half off of either my Trellis or Triple Twist if either of them intrigue you. :) I would love it if you would come and post your combinations in the group if you're on Facebook, it's always fun to see what others come up with. I will definitely post my results both in the group and here on the blog when I come up with March's prompt. Happy beading!NEDbeadshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14112578445978978385noreply@blogger.com10