What started as a netted seed bead and crystal necklace, turned into a wavy netted necklace. The beads have a mind of their own, but…
Category: Beads
Tubular peyote stitch using size 11 or 13 seed beads (very small). Each one is filled to hold it’s shaped and capped with a flat…
Tubular peyote stitch. Good for small or large seed beads and a variety of patterns.
A few different techniques of large beads as the base and seed beads creating a crossover pattern on or around the large beads.
Each year I create a new beaded brooch for Christmas. This year it was a Christmas stocking design. Each stocking had a different colour or…
Three rows of large red glass beads with white seed beads zigzagged in between. Finished with a large bead and loop.
Three strands of white, red and black seed beads braided around a further three strands of red frosted seed beads.
The necklace is viking knitting with purple nickel-free wire. The feature is thread after thread of purple and mutli-coloured seed beads, with small purple and…
Inspiration came from the cube stone beads for these bracelets. The cube beads were ladder stitched together and linked each of the threads with crystals…
The top triangle section is brick stitched together, and the remaining strands dangle freely with silver crystals on the bottom.
Inspired by a lace Japanese fan, this necklace uses large white coral beads as the central focus. The twisted, shiny brown bugle beads fan out…
I wanted to create a textured look on a simple seed bead bracelet, so decided to add crystals at intervals throughout the bracelet. Finished with…
Spiral tubular peyote with different sized beads – from small seed beads through to crystals. This has given the necklace and earrings texture. The necklace…
Each year I create a new beaded brooch for Christmas. This year it was a Snowman design. Each brooch had a different coloured hat.
Using a seed bead net as the base, I then added crystals to the gaps which forms these thick, sparkly bracelets. A slide clasp is…
Using the brick stitch, these flat earrings hang nicely from the silver-plated hooks.
Inspired by the beautiful large green beads at the bottom of these earrings, a simple design was created using seed beads and green bugle beads.
With an intention to add highlights to a simple black tubular peyote necklace, individual shapes were made out of seed beads using the square stitch…
Made as a gift, this tribute to Dr Who’s Tardis, a police box, needed straight edges. So my usual brick stitch technique for brooches wouldn’t…
All based around a single thread of beads in the middle, each strand of seed beads spirals its way around as it’s being made. Finished with a…