…compilation of tutorials
When I saw the drinking straw pin I thought: ‘Oh yes, I want!’ ;-)
It is quite easy: I took two different coloured drinking straws, cut them (veeery carefully!) into spirals with an X-acto knife und knotted them (not too firm) together.
This way my little ball stays in form without glue, sewing or the like.
I wanted to cut them first with scissors but I got ugly edges, the cut must be made with a really sharp cutting tool.
I find it cute as well as jewelry as well as tree ornament ;-)
While surfing the internet I found this necklace and found it amazing.
I thought that it should be easy to made: you make the mdedaillons with flat round Peyote (see links below) just as for the bottom of the beaded bottle, but then you work the pattern back again.
This way you get a slightly thicker medaillon in place of a flat disk.
Unfortunately I’m not so good concerning colours and so I’m not really satisfied with my own medaillon (see photo).
Perhaps I should have printed and coloured in one of the graphs (see links below) to use this as template?!
One day I really will do this ;-)
Links:
Tutorials for flat round Peyote and graphs:
Flat Round Peyote Stitch Step by Step Tutorial (English) – tutorial
Flat Round Peyote Stitch – Beading Graph Paper (English) – graph
Hexagonal Flat Peyote Worked In Rounds (English) – tutorial and graph
Rundes Peyote mit variabler Perlenanzahl (German) – tutorial, click there on ‘Rund-Peyote’
Google search result for ‘flat round peyote’
Google image search result for ‘flat round peyote’
Here at unikatissima:
Beaded Bottle
Peyote Variations
Wrap a Rock
These fabric covered beads aren’t the same as the fabric beads or the knotted fabric beads, but fabric covered wooden beads.
I like them :)
Links:
how to of the day: fabric covered beads
Here at unikatissima:
Making Fabric Beads
Knotted Fabric Buttons and Beads
Some time ago I presented the Skinner blend beads necklace, the ‘skewer’ beads shown here are made in the same way.
I call them ‘skewer’ beads because I made them by rolling polymer clay sheets which I wrapped around wooden skewers. Then I cut the sheets in sections before baking.
For the beads on the photo I
Afterwards I threaded the beads on a simple leather string that matches wonderfully the colour of the beads.
The used polymer clay canes are mostly transparent just as for the egg and the flower canes of the polymer clay box.
I still enjoy this necklace.
I really wanted to play around a little with ‘jade’, especially because this is a wonderful way of using up rests of coloured, perhaps self-mixed polymer clay ;-)
As for the subject ‘jade’: Glassattic was a great help to me.
For the beads on the photo I
For this necklace I
But of course you can embellish the tubular beads that are made on skewers with other techniques and in other widths, also (as you can see at the Skinner blend beads necklace ;-)).
Here I varnished the black polymer clay sheet to be wrapped around the skewer (with I don’t remember what) in red, let it dry and pushed then the whole sheet through the pasta machine to let the varnish crack.
Additionally I made some black-only beads of the same width.
I still find this combination beautiful ;-)
Links:
On the topic of ‘faux jade’: Glassattic — Faux many => click there on ‘jade’
Here at unikatissima:
Skinner Blend Beads Necklace
Transparent Polymer Clay
Polymer Clay Flower Canes
Carving Polymer Clay
Entries containing the word ‘cane’
Na, doesn’t this sock necklace look great?! ;-)
And about the advent calendar: you can insert here easily little paper strips into the socks just as for the simple spool advent calendar and wham!, ready is your advent calendar ;-))
So, that’ve been the advent calendar ideas for this year, now you may begin…
;-))
Links:
socks necklace
More photos of recycled socks of tabychan
via: tabychan recycled work
via: Fiber Jewelery – Summer Fashion
via: art for housewives
Here at unikatissima:
Simple Spool Advent Calendar
Entries with the tag ‘advent calendar’
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)
Here at unikatissima:
Making Paper Beads
Artist Book
Pages 9 & 10 of the artist book
I found the jewelry with the self-made turquoise already a long time ago and was thrilled!
Once I tried myself making my own turquoises from Fimo but it didn’t quite work.
Somewhen I will try it again… ;-)
Links:
Making faux turquoise
Jewelry with polymer clay turquoises (Gallery Southwest)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘faux’
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
Here at unikatissima: Making Paper Beads
I find those beads soo beautiful and can easily imagine them in other colour combinations!
One day…
Sigh.
;-)
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
