Riverlea Beads: Beaded Beads

Wednesday, 4 February 2009

Beaded Beads

I love to make beaded beads. These are from a French blog by Ilde www.lestresorsdildes.com
that I have found through the forum Iles Aux Perles. Using the French forums and blogs has been really interesting. Their beading is very artistic, and many posts have patterns ("schemas") that are usually free. As a bonus, reading them is helping my French, and I can easily follow the French patterns now. If you have some French, I highly recommend Iles Aux Perles. When I started I just kepts an online French dictionary loaded on a separate tab.
I had to work hard to figure out a pattern for the rose accent bead. I used a peyote chart paper, but had to rip out a few rows as I got confused on the sequences. Anyway, making my own chart was a good exercise in how to chart and make up a pettern.
These were put on 1.5 mm wooden beads. I just found another pattern for 2mm that I will try next.

1 comment:

Natalie said...: Do you happen to have a tutorial for this type of beaded bead? Thanks.

nataliemack.blogspot.com; 14 November 2011 at 16:23

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Why Beading?

I have just retired from my day job as a senior administrator for a school board, and now have more time revisiting all the hobbies I have loved but not had as much time for over the years.
I love to play with the beads, and however much I organize my stash, I can mess it up in a few minutes when I am trying to work out a pattern. I continue to be amazed by the amount of bead information on the internet. There are so many patterns and general information. Inspiration from other artists is all over the world, and the world is your oyster on the internet. I am not really sure why, but I am addicted to finding out new techniques and patterns. I hope this blog will share some of my inspirations.
So, happy beading!