I made this bracelet from the picture posted in the “Your Work” section of Bead & Button Magazine, Issue 102 from April 2011. The piece is created by Michelle Albertella from Encinitas, CA. My friend Alicia and I were very impressed with this gorgeous design. We drooled over the picture for about a day and decided to make it. There were no instructions in the magazine, but the article mentioned that the leaves were made using St.Petersburg chain and the petals are brick stitch….
Digging through my beading stuff, unfinished projects etc. I came upon my very first beaded object, the Beaded Stick! Years ago my Russian friend Lena had a coworker, a Native American lady, who invited her and her daughter, Anya, about 7 years old at the time, to join an annual Native American celebration given by La Jolla Indian tribe on its reservation on Mt….
Recently I’ve made two of those fabulous bead necklaces, one in gold with turquoise center bead (in the photo) and another in silver with dark garnet beads. The pattern is straightforward, easy to follow. Really loved making it. I found this necklace in Sabine Lippert’s Beaded Fantasies, a great beadwork book that makes you want to try every project in it….
I stayed up all night making this incredible necklace. It was a project out of one of the Bead and Button magazines. It’s a nice pattern because, really, you can stop at any point at the end of any row. And it would look great anyway. Making this, don’t pull too hard. Looser weave makes the necklace drape better. My high-fashion model didn’t show up….
A very popular pattern. Little funky if you are a beginner, but the effort pays off every time. It’s a classic. Chances are you’ve done it. If you haven’t, you have to.
This necklace was a class I took from Susie at the Shepherdess in San Diego as I was just starting to bead. Alas, the lovely Shepherdess closed, but I still have the beading friends I met there.
Same pattern as the Turquoise-Colored Necklace, but what a difference the color makes! It’s transformed into a delicate lacy piece, very feminine. I actually made about 20 of these using different colors. Each of my girlfriends and sisters got one for Christmas. The little pearl dangler on this one is precious!
My first experiment with a peyote counted pattern. I found the pattern for this Native American theme beaded bracelet in Bead and Button magazine. The beading was a little tough, but the result is stunning. The bracelet button closure was all of my own doing, as I recall, and it did not work. My ingenious design made the beaded loops too tight, so I could hardly push the buttons through….