Beware! Beadwork Can Be Addictive
You had better watch out before you start reading this lens....Beading can be addictive. Don't believe it? I am a true example of it. I don't know why I did not become addicted back in the 80's when I first started beading, but I sure did starting in 2005. It is a wonderful addiction though. I can create beautiful jewelry to give away or sell as I wish.
There are so many styles of beadwork that you need to narrow down which one you want to start with. I started with pretty wire and crystal ornaments and stringing beads. I moved up to working exclusively with crystals and seed beads and doing Right Angle Weave. I found peyote stitch after that. I still love both but design in peyote. I love to make pretty crystal bracelets because they look so dainty and feminine. I love to make sets also. If I have a bracelet, for some reason, I feel the need to make earrings.
Too many beads? NEVER! I told you beading is addictive and it is one we don't want to be cured of.
There are so many styles of beadwork that you need to narrow down which one you want to start with. I started with pretty wire and crystal ornaments and stringing beads. I moved up to working exclusively with crystals and seed beads and doing Right Angle Weave. I found peyote stitch after that. I still love both but design in peyote. I love to make pretty crystal bracelets because they look so dainty and feminine. I love to make sets also. If I have a bracelet, for some reason, I feel the need to make earrings.
Too many beads? NEVER! I told you beading is addictive and it is one we don't want to be cured of.
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Wonderful Surprise in Email Today.
Filet Rose in Black and White - Loom Bracelet Pattern Made into hatband
I opened an email from one of my pattern customers who purchased my Filet Rose in Black and White - Loom Bracelet Pattern. Instead of making a bracelet from this loom pattern, she extended it and made a beautiful hatband.This was my first Filet pattern that I created. Since then, I have created the Filet Rose in Color - Loom. I love it both ways but have to admit that my favorite is the one in color.
Filet Rose in Color - Loom Bracelet Pattern
Isn't this a gorgeous use for the pattern?
Can you think of any other uses?
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KittySmith
May 4, 2012 @ 6:20 pm | delete
- I love your pattern and the Hatband is stunning in black and white.
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grandmamarilyn
May 4, 2012 @ 7:38 pm | delete
- Thank you, Kitty. I work hard to try to come up with some lovely patterns. And, I loved the hatband my customer beaded up.
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Anime-e
Aug 2, 2011 @ 3:03 am | delete
- outstanding is the word im looking for great job! been amazed with all your work so far!
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grandmamarilyn
Aug 2, 2011 @ 3:31 am | delete
- Thank you.
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ShirleySunshine
May 12, 2011 @ 11:48 am | delete
- What great work, this is perfect as a hatband!
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To Help You Learn More About Beading
- Exhibition: Journeys in Beadwork at Shipley Art Gallery
- While Shipley staff in the adjacent gallery are sorting out fabulous beaded dresses ? latest catwalk designs ? for the second display, Emma explains that their assortment of 100 items ? collars, chest pieces, anklets, bracelets and decorated clothing ...
- New Orleans Jazz Fest Focuses on Mardi Gras Indian Culture
- Each year requires a new design, decorated with uncountable numbers of caviar-sized beads, demanding hours and hours of meticulous labor. "Some nights you sew until daybreak," he said. Jones' spare bedroom is blanketed with beaded mosaic patches.
- Lucinda Yates, Designs By Lucinda: Finding Inspiration For Her Business In The ...
- I used to sit in the city park with other homeless women, who taught me how to craft American Indian beaded jewelry. I'd see mothers walk through the park with their baby carriages and wonder, "Where are they going; where do they live?
- Miss Indian World has Poplar ties
- Jessa also has won awards at the Sante Fe event and is also an accomplished bead worker and powwow dancer. A fully beaded buckskin dress with designs, including horses and horse tracks in which Jessa and other family members helped her grandmother bead ...
Spiral Rope Beading Variations Tutorials
Such An Exciting Beading Technique
This lense is great for a beader wanting to learn the different variations of spiral ropes. They are so beautiful when they are completed. The triple spiral bracelet shown here is one that I created for a swap. I did it this way because I wanted something different for her so I did the spiral for a portion and added a cube bead and more spiral and a cube bead until I got the length I wanted. I think it came out pretty cute. I might have to make another one with some of the other variations available to me now.
Beading Supplies To Help You
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Beading Videos
To Let You See The Steps In Beading Visually
Here are some You Tube videos to help you with your beading.
Beaded Dog Collars
Another option for a bracelet pattern
At the end of January, I saw a picture of a dog in a beaded collar. The collar looked gorgeous. It was from a pattern created by Debbie Van Tonder Debbie received a request from a customer asking her if she could reduce the width of the loom bracelet and make the pattern so that it could be repeated a couple to times to fit around her dog's neck. Once Anne Medley finished her dog collars, she sent Debbie pictures of the collar on her dogs. She says her dogs are the best dressed dogs in town. The picture here is of Lulu wearing her collar.At my request, Anne sent me the directions on how she attached the beadwork to a nylon dog collar. Anne said she glues it onto the collar to keep it from moving. Once dry, she works around the top and bottom of the beadwork by going through every 3rd bead and through the collar to give the beaded portion of the dog collar more stability.
If you should want to do this, just send a message to the designer of the bracelet pattern to be used and I am sure that if he/she has the time, the designer will be happy to do this for you.
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Rosemary's Bracelet Pattern - used for dog collar above
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Or what would you like to see featured in my lens?
Are you already a beader or a want-to-be beader? I would love to know what type of beading you do and if you have any lenses on the subject if you already bead. If you are a want-to-be beader, I would love to see what you might be interested in seeing.
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Peyote Stitch Technique
Are You Having Trouble Learning This Stitch
A lot of beaders have a hard time learning the peyote stitch. Once learned, it usually becomes a favorite for most beaders as it goes so fast, especially 2 or 3 drop peyote. I have written an article here at Squidoo on Peyote Helpful Hints that will hopefully help you to learn how to do the peyote stitch and love it. If you have any problems, just let me know and I will help you the best that I can.For those of you who are experienced with the peyote stitch, I would appreciate you looking over my lens and adding comments about what you thought of the lens and what I may have missed in my lens.
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I would like to take this chance to thank the high level squids that took the time to come by and like my lens. I really do appreciate it.I had an angel blessing from an angel called "BuildABetterMouseTrap" but I can't seem to find them on Squidoo. Just wanted to make sure they were shown.
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I love hearing from my friends and fellow beaders
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KittySmith
May 4, 2012 @ 6:22 pm | delete
- I loved my time here.
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mistyblue75605
Apr 14, 2012 @ 1:47 am | delete
- :)P awesome lens!
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mistyblue75605
Apr 14, 2012 @ 1:46 am | delete
- great ideas you have on here and love your design patterns!
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mistyblue75605
Apr 14, 2012 @ 1:46 am | delete
- Really nice beading lens! Pinned it! :)P
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teriann
Feb 9, 2012 @ 4:38 pm | delete
- Another great lens Marilyn, Love what you have going on with your niche of beadwork.
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charlino Sep 15, 2011 @ 10:55 am | delete
- This is wonderful! Love this type of jewelery and art. You are a very talented and detail oriented beader. Thank you for sharing your tips and information.
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BevsPaper
Sep 13, 2011 @ 8:14 pm | delete
- You have tempted this Grandma to get herself some beads and start in...I have always admired beadwork and now I want to do it. This Grandma Angel is leaving a blessing in your bead box...
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grandmamarilyn
Sep 13, 2011 @ 8:17 pm | delete
- Oh, I wanna see what you bead up when you are done. I so love eye candy. Thank you for blessing my lens.
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annmackiemiller Jul 24, 2011 @ 3:04 pm | delete
- these are lovely - thanks for sharing
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grandmamarilyn
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Grandma Marilyn
And Who She Is
Hello, My name is Marilyn Southmayd better known as Grandma Marilyn or G-Ma. I have done quite a few crafts but my current favorite is beading and bead pattern designing.
We are all a grandmother that wants children to learn how to carry on our crafts. I have done crafting as long as I can remember. I taught myself to crochet while I was in Italy because I got bored. After that, I did soft doll sculpture, plastic canvas, petal people, and I don't know what else. Then I discovered beading and later bead pattern designing. So I guess you can say that where crafts are concerned, I am pretty well knowledgeable. I will from time to time come up with some more goodies for you maybe on this lens, maybe on one of my other lenses, or maybe one that is brand new. You never know where I will be posting next. All you know is that I will try to make it as interesting as I can.
You can see my beadwork at ecrater, artfire, and zibbet.
You can find my patterns at Bead Patterns Boutique, The Bead Coop, and ecrater. I do have a few located at other places but not many.
My ecrater shop also has craft books available that I am not using anymore. I plan to put up a lot more when I get a chance.
We are all a grandmother that wants children to learn how to carry on our crafts. I have done crafting as long as I can remember. I taught myself to crochet while I was in Italy because I got bored. After that, I did soft doll sculpture, plastic canvas, petal people, and I don't know what else. Then I discovered beading and later bead pattern designing. So I guess you can say that where crafts are concerned, I am pretty well knowledgeable. I will from time to time come up with some more goodies for you maybe on this lens, maybe on one of my other lenses, or maybe one that is brand new. You never know where I will be posting next. All you know is that I will try to make it as interesting as I can.
You can see my beadwork at ecrater, artfire, and zibbet.
You can find my patterns at Bead Patterns Boutique, The Bead Coop, and ecrater. I do have a few located at other places but not many.
My ecrater shop also has craft books available that I am not using anymore. I plan to put up a lot more when I get a chance.
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