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Beading Blog - thebroadroom.net: More notes from the field...
More notes from the field...
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
August 12, 2006
at 7:49 PM (Pacific)
I think I may have come up with a "template" that I like. It's harder than it looks. It's easy to copy existing designs, but difficult to invent new ones...and what I wanted in fact was a template, a pattern of beads that I could reuse by simply plugging in different stones.
This one I did in jade. It's jade rondelles, with wrapped links (three rondelles per link), connected by simple-loop links (single rondelle per link). I've got five jade faceted diamond-shaped beads on headpins, hanging from quartz crystal links (one crystal per link), hanging off the jade rondelle chain.
This is version 1.1 btw, the first had only jade, no crystals.
I went back and added something similar to my iolite, blue lace agate and chalcedony necklace...again, at first I had the diamond-shaped chalcedony beads hanging directly off the chain. It looks nicer to add a link at the top, even with a single bead in the link (here it was a blue lace agate chip).
I don't quite know yet but I think the jade piece could be made with a red stone just as well. The iolite piece, well it depends more on the colors of the beads than the actual pattern.
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