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Sunday, November 20, 2011
Bracelet in brown-yellow colors
Today we will make a bracelet out of round beads and seed beads of two sizes. To make it we will use the beading technique of flat spiral weave.
For this bracelet I used:
- 6 mm round beads of white color,
- size 6/0 seed beads of amber color,
- size 10/0 seed beads of brown color,
- nylon fishing line 0.2 mm thick and a beading needle,
- clasp for a bracelet.
Spider
To make a simple beaded 3-D spider we need:
- seed beads #11: red and black;
- 130 cm of wire 0.2 mm in diameter;
- about 50 cm of thin fishing line or monofilament.
We use the technique of three-dimensional beading. Each row in the figure consists of two tiers: the upper tiers will form the back of the spider and the lower tiers - its tum.
In this figure we will use such a technique starting from the 3rd row.
Frog
Today we'll make a very simple thing in 3-D beading - a frog.
We will need:
- seed beads of #10 size of four colors; I used green, yellow, red and black colors;
- wire of 0.2 mm in diameter;
- thin nylon line and a beading needle for cross-linking of finished figure.
For beading we will use the technique of three-dimensional beading. Each row of the figure consists of two tiers: the upper tiers will form the back of the frog, and the lower tiers of beads - its tummy.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Why I created this blog
Hello, readers of my blog!
My name is Julia and first of all I want to tell you why I created this blog. Today there is a lot of websites and blogs dedicated to beading and beaded products. But among a variety of information it is very difficult to find a site that describes beading basics for beginners in a simple language. Although any search engine gives hundreds of sites for the query "beading for beginners", the number of really useful ones for the beginner is very small. Novice in the world of beads can hardly understand and remember a lot of information - about the different types of beads, different techniques of weaving, it is difficult for him to understand products' schemes. But the desire for beading is big and you cannot wait! Because using beads you do not only learn the new skills, but you can also decorate your home or, for example, make a beautiful and very original gift that you can give to any person for any occasion. That is why for such newbies, as I myself was once, the information should be submitted simply and clearly enough to help them learn how to make beaded items without thinking of the complexities. Then I thought, 'I can create such a website myself!' And as a result here is this blog.
I will gradually post here the detailed beading lessons and in each lesson describe the procedure of making the one product. It seems to me that such a presentation of information will be the most useful for beginners in beadwork.
I also beg a pardon for my written skills as English is not my native language and I can make stupid mistakes :-)
My name is Julia and first of all I want to tell you why I created this blog. Today there is a lot of websites and blogs dedicated to beading and beaded products. But among a variety of information it is very difficult to find a site that describes beading basics for beginners in a simple language. Although any search engine gives hundreds of sites for the query "beading for beginners", the number of really useful ones for the beginner is very small. Novice in the world of beads can hardly understand and remember a lot of information - about the different types of beads, different techniques of weaving, it is difficult for him to understand products' schemes. But the desire for beading is big and you cannot wait! Because using beads you do not only learn the new skills, but you can also decorate your home or, for example, make a beautiful and very original gift that you can give to any person for any occasion. That is why for such newbies, as I myself was once, the information should be submitted simply and clearly enough to help them learn how to make beaded items without thinking of the complexities. Then I thought, 'I can create such a website myself!' And as a result here is this blog.
I will gradually post here the detailed beading lessons and in each lesson describe the procedure of making the one product. It seems to me that such a presentation of information will be the most useful for beginners in beadwork.
I also beg a pardon for my written skills as English is not my native language and I can make stupid mistakes :-)
Christmas Tree
To make this beautiful product - beaded Christmas Tree, we need:
- beads #11:
white - 5 grams,
light green - 15 grams (for simplicity we shall hereinafter call light green beads just "light")
dark green - 15 grams (for simplicity we shall hereinafter call dark green beads just "dark")
- wire 0.3 mm in diameter, preferably of a dark color.