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Black Cat Seed Bead Earrings

Tammy Powley — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:26:47 +0000

Here’s a bead weaving project for you using odd count peyote: Beaded Peyote Cat Earrings. This looks like a nice small project for anyone who’s trying to learn to create patterns in your peyote bead weaving.

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Super Quick Beaded Cover

Tammy Powley — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:50:34 +0000

This Flower Petal Ornament Cover is probably one of the quickest beaded cover you’ll ever make. When it lays flat, it is shaped like a flower, each petal falling over the bulb when you place it over it.

While this doesn’t incorporate in particular beadweaving stitch, it is still a good beginner’s project if you want to just learn to work with seed beads. It’s also a cool way to use those super long tube beads.

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Grow a Little Bead Tree

Tammy Powley — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:45:29 +0000

If you’ve ever done brick stitch before, then you remember how it will automatically become the shape of a triangle unless you increase or decrease the stitch. Let the brick stitch do it’s thing when you make these fun Brick Tree Ornaments.

These actually work up pretty quickly, especially if you use some fairly good sized seed beads like size 6 or 8.

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3 Bead Netting Tutorial

Tammy Powley — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:37:44 +0000

Is this gorgeous or what? Amazing what you can create with seed beads and a fairly smiple netting stitch. Whimbeads.com has a tutorial on 3-bead netting, which was used to make this yummy amulet beadwork bag.

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Beadwork Loves Me

Tammy Powley — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:35:58 +0000

Yee – ha! In the Feb/March issues of Beadwork magazine, I’m in there two times: First, they have a brief review of my seed bead book, Making Designer Seed Bead, Stone, and Crystal Jewelry, favorable of course (they really liked the illustrations), and then a few pages past that is an ad for all four books I’ve written for Rockport in the Making Designer Jewelry series.

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Seed Bead Tree

Tammy Powley — Sun, 10 Sep 2006 09:41:24 +0000

These little seed bead trees turn out so cute, and bascially, you just need to know brick stitch in order to make one. As you may or may not know, brick stitch (aka Comanche) automatically shapes itself into a triangle unless you do an increase or descreas with it. So, ta da, you’ve got a tree.

For the tree pictured, I used large seed beads, size 6, but you could use smaller ones, like size 11, and get teeny tiny trees and make them into earrings.

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Net Beaded Ornament Cover

Tammy Powley — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:40:01 +0000

I always say I’m going to make a ton of these one day and give them as gifts. I have given out a few, but not the dozens that I imagine. Though, really, they don’t take all that long to make compared with most bead weaving projects because it uses one of the most user friendly bead weaving stitches known, netting.

I say user friendly because netting is a great stitch for beginners, but even old pros will enjoy how these turn out.

You’ll need two color of size 11 seed beads, matching beadint thread, beading needle, and some tiny glass side-drilled teardrop beads. For complete instructions see, Beaded Ornament Cover.

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Beaded Flower Strap

Tammy Powley — Tue, 23 May 2006 08:58:49 +0000

I made this ribbon amulet necklace a few years ago and sold it through a gallery. I always wondered if the person who bought it enjoyed wearing it as much as I enjoyed making it.

Before I became a jewelry designer, I sewed a lot, thanks to a college roommate who showed me the ropes, so I still have a soft spot for fibers, especially ribbon.

The flowers on this wide ribbon were the inspiration for the strap, which has little flowers sprinkled here and there on it. The beads on this are sometimes called “fringe beads,” and they have a teardrop shape to them. Thus, you can put them all together to create a flower affect.

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Milky Lampwork Beads

Tammy Powley — Sun, 14 May 2006 08:22:56 +0000

I love these milky looking lampwork beads adorned with flowers created by D.D. Hess. I’m still mulling over what I’m going to make with them. Right now, I’m thinking a really long necklace, maybe about 40 inches so you can double it, and include white pearls and crystals or glass seed beads in colors to match the flowers.

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Easy Bead Fringe Earrings

Tammy Powley — Wed, 10 May 2006 18:02:25 +0000

Make mom some fringe earrings this Mother’s Day. If you already know brick stitch and ladder stitch, then you can whip these seed bead earrings up in probably less than 30 minutes. For full instructions see Fringe Earrings 101.

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