I am so excited:)

My beadwoven earrings were included to one Etsy treasury list! It is a very nice collection of white and pastel color items called - Colors of the forst snow. I´m so glad:)

Herringbone necklace in progress

I wanted to try to do a herringbone stitch flower. For the center I took yellow (tone sunflower) 14 mm Swarovski rivoli and nested it with beaded bezel. For the bezel I used Toho seed beads - 8/0 size silver lined yellow and 11/0 golden ones.

 To make the flower I took silver lined dark orange Czech seed beads, I gues the size is 11/0. And started to surround the rivoli with herringbone stitch. I made many increses when I stitched the flower to make it weavy. I´m very satified how it turned out.

Now I plant to make twisted herringbone rope for the necklace. Maybe I´ll do some more flowers, maybe a bit smaller ones...   I´ll decide this when the rope is finished.

Brown bead embroidered necklace

AS I wrote in last post my brown bead embroidered dragonfly necklace in finished.

In the center of the pendant there is a Czech glass button with golden dragonfly motif. Background of the button is shining in orange and brown tones. I surrounded the button with different seed beads and some brown fire polished beads. I decided to add a spiral weave necklace from brown and light yellow seed beads and made a beaded T-clasp for closure.

 I used light brown leather to cover the backside of the pendant.

This necklace and my other beadwork items are avaylable in my Etsy shop.

A little blue dream

My brown bead embroidered necklace is finished and I try to do some photos today, as we have a nice sunny day after quite a long period of clouds and rain.

So today I will show you what other jewelry and handicraft makers have done. I picked some light blue things from different Etsy shops and made one little Powder Blue collection.

Here it is.

Brown dragonfly pendant necklace in progress

I had a gorgeous Czech glass button with golden dragonfly motif and decided to make a bead embroidered necklace. At first I thought I´ll use more orange tones (as the background of the button is something between brown and orange) and some bronze color freshwater pearls.

 But when I started to work with it, the plan changed and it came out more brown and golden. And only a little orange. I used Japan seed beads and peyote stitch to bezel the button and surrounded it with seed beads and small faceted glass beads. I haven´t finished the pendant yet, because for a moment I got idea to add some fringes, but I´m not very sure about that.

So I decided to make the necklace next. This was again a tricky task - what would suit the best. At first I tried twisted tubular herringbone, but I didn´t liked it. So I tried spiral weave rope with brown and yellow seed beads and I like how it turned out and I´ll stay to it. Texture of this rope is more lively and it is very flexible.

Hope to show the finished necklace next time.

Brooches

I had some big flat round beads. Some are from glass, some are from colored shell. And I thought to make some bead embroidered brooches.

 

First one is with red shell bead. I nested it with 8/0 and 9/0 seed beads. Then added two black glass leaves, round glass beads and some more seed beads. Backside is covered with black felt.

 

The other one is with bright orange shell bead. At first I thought I will use black and orange combination. But then I found those dark green glass leaves and decided to use orange-dark green color palette. And I like how it turned out.

 This brooch has dark grey felt on backside.

Bracelets

This post will be about older things. I just thought to collect together pictures of my wrapperd leather bracelets I have in my Etsy shop.
At first triple wrapped leather cuff bracelets. I used different Czech glass beads, leather cord and metal buttons to make these.

 Those two bracelets are made from oval Czech glass beads and have also metal button.

 The last one is made also from Czech round glass beads in different tones of red and in different sizes. This bracelet wraps four times around the wrist.

 All those bracelets are very flexible and comfortable to wear. I like to wear this kind bracelets myself.

Something fresh and green

 When I bought two packages of green Czech seed beads with opaque finish I actually didn´t knew what I will do with them. I just added them into my cart because I didn´t had so bright green seed beads and thought that in some projest I could use them. When I got my package I looked at them and got idea from crocheted rope lariat with some colorful addition. As an image of a flower - green flower stalk and colorful petals. I found one package of transparent green seed beads from my stash and started to thread the beads. I stated crocheting with darker beads, eight beads in a row, and finished with lighter ones.

After I had finished the rope it stayd for a while because I couldn´t find my colored shell chips I had purchased earlier and wanted to use here. And when I found them, I realised I had too few of them. After I found some more light blue and pink shell chips from one bead store I managed to finish my projest.

 I added some beaded fringes with shell chips and covered the ends of rope with chips. This lariat is very long, 168 cm (a bit over 66 inches) and I used almost 140 grams of seed beads. This is so long, that can be warn as a waistband as well.