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One of my first Spiral bracelets, from the summer of '06. 8/0 crystal seed beads, fire-coloured 10/0 transparent silver-lined beads, and a single little carenelian chip from gods-know-where. |
| Another Sprial from summer '06. Colours picked out of a bead mix called "Earth Tone" from John Bead. A very nice blend. |  |
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Yet another spiral from summer '06. Not sure whant the composition of the colours are....I have to get better about writing that stuff down. |
| Variation on the sprial stich using 10/0 for the base, and a few 6/0 and 8/0 on the outer spiral, with Siam drops on the outside. Adapted from a recent Bead and Button design. |  |
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One of my first experiments with square stitch or 'faux-loom' weave. Wanted to see if I could increase the stitch for this feather-like bracelet. |
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| A firey dutch spiral bracelet with bugle beads on the 'spokes' instead of rows of seed beads. |  |
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Again, the versatile Potowatomi weave, this time using 4mm square beads and 4mm fire polish beads.
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Same as above, but in Topaz. |
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Ill-placed, as I think this one is my first Dutch Spiral. I've got to find those pink-ribbon charms, and see if anyone at school is willing to buy them. I'll be donating the proceeds to Breast Cancer Research. |
| Purple Dutch Spiral - I gave this one to Cyndy, as it matched her sweater the day I brought it into school. |  |
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Modified daisy chain, but this time with 4mm swarovski as the centre 'blossom'. |
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Rosemary. There weren't that many of each, and the bugles were the
longest I'd ever seen before. Had to extend the length a little
bit with seed bead loops on either end, but it worked really well.  |
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Mom's birthday present. The (again) versatile Potowatomi Weave, done with 6mm swarovski, and 4mm swarovski as the centrepiece for the 'flowers'. Turned out a bit heavy, but still very nice. |
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More modified daisy chains!  |
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 Black/White/Silver
Dutch Spiral. |
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I tried this colour scheme because my colour wheel said blue and orange would go together. Uhm....maybe not these particular shades....
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 Potowatomi
weave using a general mix from the "Earth Tone" set I mentioned
before. |
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An experiment with Potowatomi Weave. Done in 8/0 beads instead of my usual 10/0, then I went back and threaded 6/0 in between the odd beads to either side. Unexpectedly, it gave the bracelet a natural twist, which was a very neat effect.
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 Square
bracelet from a recent Bead and Button article, using 10/0 square
beads. Really neat effect. Pretty sure it's just a Right-Angle-Weave
variation. |
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More Pototwatomi Twists!  |
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 Not
entirely sure what to call this one. I saw an example of it at BeadFX
on one of my "Bead Pilgramages" and thought it looked really
neat. Once I got home I sat down and 'reverse-engineered' how it came
to be. |
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My first double-Potowatomi Weave bracelet. Getting the hang of it was rather tricky, but fun in the end. I'll have to do another one soon.
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 Another
of what's now called the "Open Pyramid" using shorter bugle
beads, giving a looser and slightly larger structure, as I'm using
two bugle beads per 'arm'. |
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Green Squares from a design in a recent "Bead and Button" magazine. I'll have to try to put all my sources up eventually....
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The ever-versatile Potowatomi Stitch. You can do many interesting designs with it! |
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The "Open Pyramid"
in Rose-Bronze and Copper.  |
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 The
"Open Pyramid" in twisted oily blue bugle beads and dusky
grey-black. |
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Potowatomi Weave - making a basic daisy chain out of it. One of the most versatile stitches I've learned.
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The modified daisy chain, pink and green. Brian called this one the "Flowering Grape Vine." |
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Dutch Spiral yet again, wanted to try a basic black and white motif.
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The adapted daisy chain again, but not such a variation of colour as in some of the others. |
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| I called this one "Silk Road Sands" as it had a very Persian feel for me once it was done. It was, at first, an experiment with a longer-spaced Dutch Spiral, then I wondered if I could fit 4mm fire polish beads between the 'spokes' without distorting the work. This is the result. I rather like it, and I've gotten several compliments. |  |
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 I
was asked to 'reverse engineer' this stitch from a set of cryptic
instructions. Turns out to be a RAW variation (nice how everything
turns out so simply). I'd not done much with RAW before this, because
of the 2-needle/lines needed to really work it, and I didn't think
I was that co-ordinated. Well, 2 bracelets and 3 pages of instructions-with-diagrams
later, here it is. |
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| Same stitch
as above, but different bead placement. Nothing's really original
these days...  |
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I've decided that my current favourite sitch is the netting weave. Larger versions make really nice necklaces, and small versions can make really lacy textures. The design for this one was inspired from the cover of "Urban Shaman". The Heroine is wearing a bracelet like this one. I'm not entirely happy with the final product, as it's not evenly spaced (though that's the stitch's fault), so I may try again. |
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More netting weave! Patterns
inspired from a book by Jane Davis that I borrowed from the library
in the summer of '06. The colour choice wasn't quite right,
but it still looks neat.  |
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My 4mm version of the Swarovski Potowatomi bracelet. I ran out of beads, which is why this is an incomplete scan. I'm really ticked off, because I can't currently FIND this bracelet to give a final scan. 4mm Swarovski Montana Blue and Fire Opal. I think AB. |
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