I haven't managed to get into the studio for a couple of weeks now, however this weekend I finally did something with all the tiny beads I've been making.
Every week when I go into the studio and make some beads, I finish my session by making some tiny tiny beads with some dot and stripe patterns. The idea is to practice making beads all the same size and my dot placement, extra hard on tiny beads.
Now I've got a good collection I wanted to make them into a necklace and a bracelet. Firstly I sorted them by size, saving the really small ones for the bracelet.
Having watched some videos on YouTube on how to knot pearls into a necklace I wanted to do the same with the beads, but after a frustrating hour or so I gave up - I just couldn't get the knots where I wanted them or a consistant size. 'im outdoors suggested I use seed beads as seperaters instead and this worked well and was a lot quicker.
I then used a special two hole bead I'd made as a fasterning. It worked really well. I'm really pleased with the necklace, it's pretty without being too in your face.
I then tried making a bracelet. As a first attempt it's ok but I think it will need more work. Maybe I should just follow the necklace design and have a single row? But I like that they can move about. It uses a sliding knot, so very easy to put on and take off and I like that I could finish each end with a bead, but getting the whole lot to sit nicely on my wrist is hard. I might take it apart and have another go at some point. Maybe I need a different sort of cord too?
It's great to finally have a 'use' for some of my beads. At the moment most of them are just sitting my my desk, which isn't really the point of them. It's nice to give them a purpose.
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