Beading – Page 14 – unikatissima's

Beaded Leaves

These leaves are a kind of Peyote leaves and they are called ‘Russian St. Petersburg leaves’.
She made the tutorial because she didn’t find any – I find that great!

Ehm, I did find another tutorial (just in case) ;-)

If the leaves are called ‘Russian St. Petersburg leaves’ then I think that they are supposed to be made for the St.Petersburg necklace – that stands to reason, doesn’t it? In any case they would match wonderfully.

Links:
Beaded Leaves (Let’s talk leaves ** TUTORIAL**)
How to Make Leaves using St. Petersburg Stitch

Here at unikatissima:
Peyote Leaves
St.Petersburg Necklace

Braided Bead Rainbow

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A long time ago I’ve found the instruction for the braided bead rainbow but when I wanted to present it here at some time the website didn’t exist any more.
So you can imagine how glad I was when I found it back accidentally! :))

So now also for you to make it ;-))

Links:
Braided Bead Rainbow (Instructions / Anleitungen / Schémas) (English, German and French)
=> scroll down to ‘Braided Rainbow English instructions’, ‘Geflochtener Regenbogen Deutsche Anleitung’ and ‘Arc-en-ciel tressé Instructions francaises’

Beaded Art Dolls

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On the photo is one of the first Beaded Art Dolls I’ve ever seen and it impressed me deeply.
I always wanted to make one but haven’t had the time yet.
Up until now I only made my freeform bead embroidery ;-)

But I looked for ‘Bead Art Doll’ already ;-)
In doing so I found a mermaid and a butterfly craftalong (in a craftalong several people work on the same project and compare notes). Furthermore I found a most beautiful bird, a blog entry on the subject of ‘Beaded Art Dolls’ and several wonderful finished Beaded Art Dolls, where I like most the Wise One and the little Alien Doll.

If you want to make one, too, you can get patterns for the dolls here.

Links:
Beaded Art Doll on the photo (Coral beaded art doll (first ever!))

Mermaid beaded art doll craftalong with descriptions
Butterfly beaded art doll craftalong with descriptions

Bird (beaded bird art doll)

As inspiration:
Blog entry (Use Beads as Art:Beaded Art Dolls)
Photos of Beaded Art Dolls
Wise One
Alien Doll

Google image search result for ‘bead art doll’

Free patterns: Doll Forms & Figures – you find the links on the top left: FREE PATTERNS! Bird Goddess, Tiny Goddess, Butterfly Goddess

Here at unikatissima:
Freeform Bead Embroidery

Beaded Embroidery Stitches

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Actually Advent should be a time of contemplativeness and so it should exactly be the right time to try something fiddly as beaded embroidery.

For those who experience a less contemplative Advent: you will have time to try it later, too ;-))
And if you don’t have beads at hand at the moment, try some ‘normal’ embroidery ;-)

On the photo you see a beaded cross stitch, I find it cute and put it on my list of things-to-try.

Links:
Making Bead Embroidery Samples Part I
Here you can find the beaded cross stitch, you must scroll down to ‘Bead Cross Stitch’.
Making Bead Embroidery Samples Part II

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ’embroidery’

Herringbone/Ndebele Necklace

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Some time ago I made a Herringbone or Ndebele necklace.
I find it beautiful, it is wonderfully sleeky and simply elegant.
And I found the bead weaving itself downright relaxing.

To make sure that the necklace doesn’t look boring I simply made a little Peyote bead like for my paper beads bracelet, pulled it over the necklace and worked little bead fringes on the bead like for the pages 9 & 10 of my artist book – looots ;-)
Well, I like it ;-)

Links:
Herringbone/Ndebele Necklace(Beaded Herringbone Cord)

Peyote Beads (Beaded Bead)

Here at unikatissima:
Making Paper Beads
Artist Book
Pages 9 & 10 of the artist book

Beaded Wooden Spools

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When I saw the little beaded wooden spools I directly wanted to go for making them myself!
Luckily I didn’t have any wooden spools at home at the moment ;-))

But you can easily ‘weave’ the little Peyote beads from my paper beads bracelet (without any wooden spools ;-)) around the wooden spools.

Links:
Beaded Wooden Spools

Peyote-Beads (Beaded Bead)

Here at unikatissima: Making Paper Beads

Beaded Shoes

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I’d never have had the idea myself: beading shoes!
Up until now I mostly ‘jumped’ at buttons and pins and the bead embroidered Paisleys are still on my list, but shoes…
If you don’t like the pattern, check out again the cross stitch patterns treasures ;-)

I’m thrilled, it’s possible that I really will make them once ;-)

You can possibly even embroider your self-made shoes.
On the other hand it may be easier to spraypaint the shoes.
And if you are a sneaker type you may prefer to customize your sneakers ;-)
Besides fall has begun, possibly you better add crochet embellishments to your shoes?! ;-)

Links:
Kasut Manek (Beaded Shoes)
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 1 – Preparing the frame and canvas
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 2 – Border Beading
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 3 – Interior Beading
Beading (Manek) Tutorial – Part 4 – How to take measurement on your foot

Here at unikatissima:
Freeform Bead Embroidery
Bead embroidered Paisleys
Bead Picots
Cross Stitch Patterns Treasures
Sneaker Customizing
Self-made Shoes
Spraypainting Accessories
Shoe-torial

Spiral Rope Chain

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Actually it’s time to bead me a nice necklace, e.g. this spiral chain.
At least I find that I should ;-)

She says that it is an easy stitch that is worked quickly.
Once I tried the stitch and I find that she’s right.
Only I gave the necklace away and took (of course!) no photo before.
Well, I have to make it again, this time for me ;-)

Links:
Spiral Rope Chain