On the Buy The Kit pattern page, I have two more instruction sets available. One is Grommets Galore:
And the other is Simple Solutions:
Select my name from the BTK pattern page – each is $4.
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Tags: netting, square stitch
For a clasp, I decided to go with simple beads and loops. It would be nicest if the tube beads would stay nice and straight, perpendicular to their closest tube neighbors, but that isn’t the case. It’s secure though, so that’s good!
I think this took longer than it should because the next project on tap is the the Beading for a Cure 2010 project, and I’m not sure what I want to do yet. (I will post the bead kit when we’re allowed.) I’m on my second idea — haven’t touched beads for designing, let alone paper and pencil. I hope to have a few minutes today to give idea #2 an attempt. The first may yet work as well.
I bought these fat white heart tubes a while ago, the seller thought they were either Czech or French. I’m guessing Czech, but I’m really not that knowledgeable. They’re large in diameter, with large holes. A 15 would fit inside. I’ve been messing around with paper and pencil, and then with beads, trying to figure out a design that would show off their beauty. I’ve paired them with vintage Czech beads in a very light chartreuse, which looks nearly yellow. The color is actually in very subtle stripes in these beads, they look a little like Italian gooseberry beads, which I’ve had the good fortune to see once in person. The base color is a lighter yellow-green than the stripes.
So this is the design that’s made the most progress. It’s a combination of right angle weave, square stitch, and brick stitch, otherwise known as messing around. The width is 1″.
It’s not nice and even, and finding a clasp I like to go with it is going to cause me fits. I’m trying to decide if I should keep going.
Tags: brick, right angle weave, square stitch
Okay, I should just follow instructions. Color me stubborn! But I love these beads, and wanted to give it a try – those beads on the edge are a great matte ab root beer brown. They’re too big, though, they really need to be the same size as the internal herringbone rows, the green beads. I’ll probably try this again, but not now — and next time, following the directions to the letter! This attempt was so poor, the blurry picture is apt!
Tags: herringbone
The February 2009 issue of Bead & Button has instructions for cabled herringbone, designed by Rae Arlene Reller. Herringbone is one of my favorite stitches, and I found this very appealing, so I gave it a shot. The blue and purple are French 10’s, fat beads. I increased the width of the herringbone stitch by adding the matte green ab 15s in the center of the stitch. While I think the effect of adding the color is very good, tying the contrasting green edging into the darker blue and purple, the stitch itself won’t work this way. The width of the stitch with the fat beads and the added 15 is too big to cable smoothly, and it won’t curve well around a wrist. I really love the opal blue and purple with the opaque charteuse ab bead, and I have the purple in a 13, but not the blue. I’ll try again, with a different color combination and different bead sizes.
Tags: herringbone
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