Meditation

 

I had the idea that I would plan my next beaded bead pattern while I worked on keyrings. Mmm, no. It turns out that threading beads is akin to meditation - it fills the mind, with no room for flights of fancy. 

Christmas Baubles

 

I know, I know, it's much too early for Christmas baubles. But there were some ideas I wanted to try out. The red and green ball is just a bigger version of the black and brights beads that I showed a couple of posts back. Very easy, I didn't have to work out a pattern or stringing chart. For the other one, I drew one section of the pattern and then just multiplied it by six.

 I kept fingers crossed that it was going to work, that was a lot of beads threaded in vain if it didn't! It worked fine, the theory was good.  There's a plastic ball from a deodorant bottle in the middle of each ball. 

So Excited

I was so excited to see Tammy L Turner's version of my Under An African Sky doily on the Just Tatting Facebook group this morning. Tammy has made some changes to suit her own requirements, while retaining the spirit of the doily. Thumbs up, I love to see a project evolve. One of the changes was the trees - many people have struggled with the interlocking rings, but it's quite possible to do the trees without interlocking. Tammy isn't fond of split rings, so she changed the outer round to use one shuttle rings - splendid.

 Tammy shared a link to the pattern on her post. So many people clicked on it that the daily limit of free bandwidth that Keep-and-Share allows me has been reached! Sorry about that. The free allowance is normally ample for people looking at my patterns.

 There's a link to the pattern on the right hand size of this page. Maybe wait a day or two before clicking on it!

Done

 

I've finished the black and brights beaded bead necklace. I strung the beaded beads sideways, rather than end to end,  to try to show off the 'spider' pattern. Of course the beads swivel on the string, so I'm not sure how well that works. My text is shown as underlined in the draft. I don't know if the underlining will show when I publish it. Last time I wrote, I spent a lot of time and energy trying to get rid of the underlining, and then when I published the post, there was no underlining! I have reduced the size of the text on my photos, as well as making the photos small rather than medium as I used to do. The idea is to claim ownership of the photo, not shout my name at you! 

Work In Progress

I'm working on another necklace of beaded beads.

Trying Out Patterns

I've been trying out patterns on beaded beads. Some of them are my own designs and the others come from beadingdigest, here and here. The beading digest stitch count is a little different to mine. I might stick to my own count for now.

Blogger has now updated me to the new look. Right. Have to figure things out anew. 

A Necklace For Spring

The days are beginning to lengthen, green shoots starting to appear, it will soon be Spring. I have the jump on Spring though with this necklace.

 I hope the person who ordered it will like it. I always wonder if what the person ordering visualises is the same as what I"m imagining!