Tag: Beading

Plastic Funnel

instructables Plastic Funnel

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Sometimes you need a big funnel – why not cutting the top of a plastic bottle and use this?
I find this instruction great again: with little means reaching something practical and additionally recycling :)

By the way you can use those funnels, too, when pouring little beads from one container to the other, I don’t like to use my kitchen funnels for this.

Incidentally you can use up the rest of your bottle, too ;-)


Links:
Plastic Funnel (Never buy plastic funnels again!)

Here at unikatissima: Entries containing the word ‘plastic bottle’

St.Petersburg Necklace

Cut Out + Keep St Petersburg Necklace

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I found a beading tutorial for a beautiful necklace, the St. Petersburg necklace.

Doesn’t only look wonderful but seems to be easy to make, but I have to try this yet ;-)


Links:
St.Petersburg Necklace

Additionally I found (but unfortunately I can’t remember how) a PDF-file with this tutorial: Stitch a St. Petersburg to make a lariat or necklace designed by Hatsumi Oshitani (PDF – ca 600 KB)

Ladder Rings

unikatissima Ladder Ring

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I found the Ladder Rings where they added a link to the (free) instruction. But you have to register there and I don’t like this.
So I figured out how I would do it and that’s what I came up with (it may be that their instruction is completely different):

 

That’s what you do:
 

unikatissima Ladder Ring
You need two sizes of beads which are to be linked as seen in the diagram.
If you’re ready it doesn’t look very good because there are really gaps between the little beads as in the diagram.

 

unikatissima Ladder Ring
That’s why you pull the thread once more through all little beads – the ring is finished.

 

unikatissima Ladder Ring Caution: The second step tightens the ring considerably.
I made my first ring much too narrow because I didn’t know that it gets smaller in the second step.
Unfortunately I can’t say how much.

At the second try I did it differently: I repeated the first step until I thought that it should be enough, then I pulled the thread through the little beads on one side and tried if the ring fits.
It didn’t, so I pulled out the thread from the little beads, repeated the first step two more times and then it was right.


Links:
Ladder Rings

Beaded Tubular Net

unikatissima TubularNet Necklaces

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For a certain time I worked tubular nets, e.g. to make necklaces like the ones on the photo.
I find them beautiful and that a simply eye catcher like the beaded freeform bead is enough. Additionally they are wonderful soft because the tubular net is so elastic.

 

unikatissima TubularNet Glass Tubes detail You can use tubular netting as well to bead glass tubes like at the bead and wire wall vase or to bead little bottles.

 


Links:
TubularNet
Netz-Ketten (German) (short description, scroll down to ‘Netz-Ketten’)

Net technique (German) (not tubular)

Here at unikatissima:
Bead and Wire Wall Vase
Beaded Bottle

Entries with the tag ‘vase’

Beaded Hyperbolic Planes

The Institute For Figuring Beaded Hyperbolics

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Today again more an inspiration than an instruction, nonetheless fascinating: beaded hyperbolic planes.

And while you’re at The Institute For Figuring you must absolutely take a look at the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef!
Wow!


Links:
At The Institute For Figuring:
Beaded Hyperbolics – a wonderful gallery
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef – ditto ;-)

Needle Felted Bracelet

theartofmegan Needle Felted Loop Bracelet

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I found a good tutorial again, this time about how to make a needle felted bracelet.

I put it directly on my list, because I think it is great as a base that can be embellished e.g. with bead embroidered Paisleys or bead picots but also with ‘just-embroidery’ like the cross stitch heart, the freeform embroidery or the Embroidery Crust.
Additionally you can make matching earrings and a pendant for a necklace.


Links:
Needle Felted Loop Bracelet

Here at unikatissima:
Bead embroidered Paisleys
Bead Picots
Freeform Bead Embroidery

Entries with the tag ’embroidery’
Cross Stitch Heart
Freeform Embroidery
Embroidery Crust

Beaded Square Stitch Heart

unikatissima Bead Square Stitch Heart

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Because it’s not long to Valentine’s Day any more I’d like to offer a template for you to bead a heart with square stitch (for instructions on how to do the square stitch see links below).
It’s great to make a card but can be made into a piece of jewelry as well.

 


unikatissima Heart Chart Click picture to enlarge and then simply print.

 

unikatissima Bead Square Stitch And here you can see easily where the name ‘square stitch’ comes from ;-))

 


Links:
Standard Square Stitch Beading Tutorial
Making Square Stitch Samples Part I – shows also the ‘Circular Flat Square Stitch’

Perlenhobby Anleitungen (German) => click ‘Anleitungen’ in the left navigational bar => click ‘Quadratstich’

Peyote Triangle Bracelet

thisyearsdozen_wordpress Peyote Triangle Bracelet

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Recently I browsed the internet for Peyote bead work and this way I found the instruction on how to make a Peyote triangle bracelet (see instead this diagram).
Looks great, doesn’t it?

My to-do-list gets longer and longer ;-))


Links:
How to Make a Peyote Triangle Bracelet, Part 1
How to Make a Peyote Triangle Bracelet, Part 2
Peyote Triangle Bracelet

But I found a diagram (Triangle Peyote Stitch.Beadwork.) that you can possibly use instead.

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘Peyote’
Entries with the tag ‘beads’

Bauble – Knitted Bead Cuff

unikatissima Bauble.jpg

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I found at knitty the instruction for the knitted bead cuff ‘Bauble’ and really liked it.
Therefore I wanted to knit at least a bit to see how it looks.
Because I don’t have any bigger beads at the moment I used some left over paper beads.
But I didn’t manage to knit the bead string at all.
I really must try it again when I’m a little more untroubled because I really find Bauble beautiful!


Links:
At knitty: Bauble

Here at unikatissima: Paper Beads