I've Been Playing With Beads

Warning! Lots of pictures.

For the last 2 weeks, I've been playing with beads. For some reason, a video reel popped into my Facebook feed of a bracelet made with 2-needle Right Angle Weave. It was so pretty I had to try it out. I've made 5 bracelets.

This is the first one I made. I have quite a few glass pearls in the stash and this used some of them.

I used gold and black size 11 seed beads and 4 mm glass pearls from the stash in this bracelet .

I found the cutest clasp on Amazon, of all places.

My daughter liked the above bracelet so much I made her one.

I used a silver clasp that I found on Amazon.

I used silver and dark green size 11 seed beads and 4mm glass pearls  from the stash to make the bracelet.

I found this bracelet tutorial on the page for the first bracelet.

I found a simple pearl clasp for it, again, on Amazon. It matches the bracelet so nicely.

I used silver size 11 seed beads, 4mm Czech fire polished crystals in a pale blue, and 6mm glass pearls  from the stash in its construction.

I thought about my daughters wife and made this for her. Same pattern as above, but I changed the beads used.

I found this really simple folding clasp on Amazon.

For bracelet construction, I used silver size 11 seed beads, 4mm clear AB bicone crystals from the stash, and 6mm Natural Stone Colorful Selenite Gypsum Beads that I bought from Amazon.

Then I made this bracelet for daughter. She wears a lot of green because it goes with her red hair.

I again used a simple silver fold over clasp like the bracelet above. The beads are silver size 11 seed beads, 4mm lime green bicone crystals, and 4mm glass pearls from the stash.

I am surprised at the quality of beading stuff I bought from Amazon. I didn't expect that. I've since bought some more very nice glass pearls and 4mm bicone crystals (Preciosa) for other tutorials I want to make. Everything is very good quality.

If you are a member of Facebook, here's a link to the FB page I got these tutorial videos from: Wedding Decoration Ideas . I was going to link directly to the first bracelet tutorial, but I can't find it. She's got a LOT of videos to scroll through. 

I promised my daughter a knit cardigan some time last year. I've got all the yarn, but now I can't find the pattern. It's around the house somewhere. I will keep looking because I can not purchase another copy. They are no longer available. Sometimes I wish I kept my stash more organized. Not enough to do anything about it, of course.

Live long and prosper.\\//