Saturday, 19 January 2008

French Bead Sites

Over the holidays I had some fun time cruising the internet and looking at some off shore bead sites. I found some really wonderful sites in France, and had a great time trying to translate things. I liked them so much I have subscribed to 2 of them. They have wonderful patterns on them, and I am amazed at the professionalism of the patterns and the quantity.

Like Japanese sites, they use a lot of 2 needle techniques. I am slowly getting the hang of this, but it is still awkward. Bead-patterns.com has a good instruction sheet by Chris Prussing that I have found very helpful.

Take a look at a couple of these sites:
Les Perles de Frany has wonderful links to other sites in France and elsewhere.
http://lesperlesdefrany.canalblog.com/

See the Pumpkin Bead Pattern on this site:
http://mimilg.skynetblogs.be/tag/1/Creations

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