#beadwork
@katiajewelbox has been inspiring me with her amazing bead necklaces, so I’ve pulled out my seed beads for the first time in a decade.
I’ve lost my threading needle so stringing these beads is slow going, but I’m going to experiment with crocheting strings and sheets to see what effects I can create.
Update:three minutes later, dozens of tiny beads on my sofa, I’m remembering why i stopped beading….
Bead project update: while I found several amazing patterns for crochet beadwork they presented me a problem: crochet depends on the width of the hook to be in sync with the width of the thread in order to provide the piece stability. There are plenty of tubular designs that can be worked in crochet, but to get them stiff enough to hold the beads in place they require hooks even smaller than my 1.0mm… and the fact that i strung the beads on transparent fishing line makes the stitches hard enough to see at 1mm scale.
These are some sewn bead tubes I made a very long time ago that I wanted to compare to seed bead crochet technique.
The top tiny tube is Tubular Stitch, which secures every bead to the four beads around it. It creates stiff tubes and is ideal for creating buttons, cufflinks, large beads to string onto jewellery etc.
The bottom two are… I’ve forgotten the name of the stitch :( but on the blue necklace only the gold beads are joined, letting the blue beads bend and move freely on their string. On the multicoloured necklace only the gold and the black beads are joined, and their different sizes force the tube the arch and bend to accommodate their width, creating more extreme angles than the blue necklace.
So after realising that making a crochet tube was creating a floppy mess I decided to play about with the beginnings of a netting design. I’ll probably pull this apart and make a circular net whose floppiness won’t matter too much.
However…
Someone’s birthday is coming up and I want to make them a fancy gift! I found my old miyuki delica beads and strung them onto a thread thick enough to pair with my existing crochet needles. Stringing miyuki beads is like night and day compared to those cheap beads! The holes in the middle are wide and even, accommodating both this thread and a cross stitch needle. If you want to do a crochet project with seed beads splash out on the miyuki delicas, their ease of work is worth the cost.
I’ll post pictures of this crochet project as I work on it through the week. I need to finish it by Saturday!
From a quick first glance this striking gown looks either painted or printed on, but actually Eric Gaskins has captured the inspirational brushwork of his favorite artist Franz Kline through exquisite beadwork on this silk gown from 2014. Love it!!!#ericgaskins #blackfashiondesigners #museumatfit #inspiration #beadwork #fashion #art (at Museum at FIT)
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At the end of every rainbow you can find one of these, smaller rainbows. Scientists are still trying to find the even tinier rainbow at the end of one of these.
Can cast Reduce Person 1/day
£7 http://reeshasbeads.weebly.com/store/c6/Other.html
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Every 100 years, the Dragon of Wood’s mortal body perishes, ready for it to be reborn. Each time this happens, its eyes solidify, and to wear one grants good luck and a closer bond with nature.
+3 WIS, +3 LUCK, +10 Knowledge (Nature).
£15 http://reeshasbeads.weebly.com/store/c5/Necklaces.html
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The sprightliest of nature’s children, zig-zagging amidst a garden of green and yellow beads; the essence of new life encapsulated in jewellery form.
Wearer may regen 1HP per minute.
£5 http://reeshasbeads.weebly.com/store/c4/Bracelets.html
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When faced with the glorious sparkle of this exquisite beaded masterpiece, none but a petty fool would question whether a “real” diamond lurks within. What is reality, other than a supposition constructed from perceptions? Reject such abstractions and focus on the only graspable truth; that this ring is super pretty!
+10 to Illusion magic.
£5 http://reeshasbeads.weebly.com/store/c6/Other.html
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Did you know that one cup of raspberries can provide you with half your daily vitamin C, and one third of your fibre? This pendant won’t help with that, but will look pretty awesome, looking like a raspberry, but actually being made of beads! The things technology can do these days!
+1 STR, +1 DEX, +1 CON.
£2 http://reeshasbeads.weebly.com/store/c3/Pendants.html
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“I AM VENGEANCE!”
“I AM THE NIGHT!”
“ I AM THE-”
Shut up necklace. Sorry, this one has a lot of unresolved issues, let’s move on to the next one, shall we?
+3 STR, +3 CON, +2 DEX, -2 SAN.
£15 http://reeshasbeads.weebly.com/store/c5/Necklaces.html
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When the soft light of the world shines through these beautiful Andean Opals, the play of radiance that they emanate looks like a summer sunset.
Can cast Prismatic Ray 1/day.
£6 http://reeshasbeads.weebly.com/store/c2/Earrings.html
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The wisdom of Thoth, the passion of Isis and the might of Sutekh can be yours by simply adding this fragment of mythic splendor to your wardrobe.
+2 WIS, +2 CON.
£5 http://reeshasbeads.weebly.com/store/c4/Bracelets.html
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Replicate the mysterious potential of the Ood’s secondary brain by simply buying and wearing this pendant. Allegations that Reesha’s Beads developed this technology in collaboration with Ood Operations have not been verified.
“Can cast Psionic Chorus 1/day.”
£10www.reeshasbeads.weebly.com
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Porcelain, once merely an exquisite statue made from finest china, was brought to life after a dragon of luck granted the wish of a lonely young woman that she would find a partner who would love her forever. The delicate beauty, though cold to touch, was warm and tender of heart, and brought her human lover bouquets full of white and purple gemstones as tokens of her statuesque affection. The mortal woman aged and died, as all do, but Porcelain endures, remembering her love in stony silence, and shedding no tears.
May cast ‘Animate Statue’ once per day.
£12www.reeshasbeads.weebly.com
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