Tag: Button

Button Collage Necklaces

craftster Button Collage Necklaces

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Even if the ‘pendants’ don’t really match my liking, I find the idea and the workmanship really great!
In fact she only wrotes as ‘instruction’: “I don’t really have a process on
how I make them it’s a trial and error thing.”
That means that it is my part to realize something to my liking – as necklace, as earring, as pin and so on ;-))
And I have already some tutorials for buttons ;-)


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Button Collage Necklaces (New Collage necklaces)

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Entries with the tag ‘button’
Entries with the tag ‘necklace’
Entries with the tag ‘earring’
Entries with the tag ‘pin’

Beaded Spiral Button

beadwork about_com Spiral Button

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While surfing I found a beautiful spiral button.
I have to give it a try ;-)

If I don’t like it, I can still come back to my own spiral beads ;-)
Or to the folded spirals.
Or the crochet spiral ;-)))


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Spiral Button Free Bead Pattern

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Beaded Spiral Beads
Folded Spirals
Crochet Spiral

Weave Wrapped Bead Buttons

unikatissima Embroidered Bead Buttons

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Once I found an instruction on making buttons by weave wrapping wooden beads and tried it immediatley with different weave patterns: It is great!
I really like the weave wrapping of the buttons and find that the results are too beautiful to be used as buttons, I like them more as beads ;-)


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Weave Wrapped Bead Buttons – scroll down to ‘To construct this type of button,…’

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Fringed Buttons

unikatissima Fringed Button

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I found the fringed buttons very nice. But they are done with ready-made fringes which I don’t have at home.

 

unikatissima Fringed Button Therefore I made a kind of pom-pom from wool rests and put my button inside there and although I find the button awful kitschy I quite like the combination ;-))

 

unikatissima Crazy Daisy Buttons Of course you can as well tuck a Crazy Daisy under the button ;-))

 


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Fringe-y Goodness

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Crazy Daisy Ring
Crazy Daisies
Crazy Daisies II

Buttoned I-cord Bracelet

unikatissima Buttoned I-cord Bracelet

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I found a great instruction on how to make a beaded I-cord.
She knits an I-cord where she works in previously stringed beads.

 

unikatissima Buttoned I-cord Bracelet Because I only had seed beads I simply took some of my buttons and must say that I like the result, also.

My I-cord is a little bit uneven, because the heads of my buttons often got in my way, but I like it nevertheless ;-)

 


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an anti pattern

Beaded Shank Button

Beaded Shank Button

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Many pieces of jewelry like necklaces or bracelets need some kind of closure. Purses do, too, journals perhaps. Maybe you crochet an iPod cozy that should be closable.
You can use pre-made closures (which I mostly don’t like), but you can make a self-made shank button match just as you like.
For my bracelet bracelet *Little Black Dress* with the beaded spiral bead I made such a shank button and it worked out really fine.


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Beaded Shank Button (Tubular Herringbone/Ndebele)

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Beaded Spiral Beads

Beaded Spiral Beads

Beaded Spiralbeads

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I once found in internet photos from some spiral beads beaded from seed beads. Because I really liked them, I figured out how to bead spiralbeads.
The instruction is in German, but I drew explaining pictures that (I hope ;-)) say it all.
You begin in the middle. First you increase the circumference of the bead in the first 3 rows, then in rows 4 and 5 you work straight to create the sides of the bead and from row 6 on you decrease in the same way you increased before.
I then created the necklace *Summer, Sun and Spots* and the bracelet *Little Black Dress* with such spiral beads.
The beaded strings for the necklace where made in tubular peyote stitch (here an English instruction). After having finished them, I sewed them on.
The bracelet ‘strings’ where made in flat Herringbone weave (here an English instruction).


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Beaded Spiral Beads (in German)

Spiral Beads Necklace *Summer, Sun and Spots* (in German)
Spiral Beads Bracelet *Little Black Dress* (in German)

More instructions on:
Tubular Peyote Stitch (English)
Tubular Peyote Stitch (German): click ‘Anleitungen’ in left navigation bar, select ‘Schlauch-Peyote’

Flat Herringbone/Ndebele Weave (English)
Flat Herringbone/Ndebele Weave (German): click ‘Anleitungen’ in left navigation bar, select ‘Flaches Ndebele’