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Frying Up Some More Necklaces
I can’t get enough of this pattern. Toggle clasp.
Fence Snake Necklace
No it is not a snake! This is the piece that inspired me to start beading seriously. Pamela Aronoff, a serious and very creative beader, gave me a necklace as a gift. I was so stunned by it, that I thought I wanted to make one myself. Since Pam lives 2 hours north from me, I went looking in local bead stores with my precious necklace in hand, asking if anybody could tell how I could make one….
First Beading Class Project
Project from my first beading class with Ana Garcia at Shepherdess in San Diego, CA.
First Efforts
Shower Gift: Baby Blue Bracelet The first kind of bead work I did was a vast number of African Helix stitch bracelets. The instructions came from a book I took out of the local library, and the African Helix stitch seemed the most approachable out of that book, which was not beginner level. Everything else seemed too complicated. Still, having no experience in beading or even stringing at all, it took me the better part of the day to figure it out….