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This n that
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
October 9, 2006
at 9:45 PM (Pacific)
Drat! My favorite bead shop is still closed. It's funny, it's a small shop, but they always seemed to have the best materials. Oh well...grumbles...
I had to do a spot of bead shopping for a friend; I ended up going to two shops to find what I highly suspect I could have gotten from my favorite store had it been open. But I did find it, and I like bead shopping (it's "a beading thing"). Each shop is different. I've never been to a bead store that didn't have something that you wanted inside it, and, as often as not, it's not something you wanted before you saw it. Does that make sense? Once you see the beads, you start spinning a dream of what you want to make.
I usually don't go with a pattern. The exceptions would be the "Sundance catalog" earrings, the braided wire bracelet and the diamond-shaped earring frames I got from the WigJig site (all mentioned previously).
That's why I've tried to boil down what I make to several "templates." Once you have your own set of templates, it's easy to know what to buy and how many of each.
That said, I have yet to finish all this boiling down. Today I saw these beautiful Japanese glass beads...I will say the Japanese beads are exquisite...those tiny glass beads in a tube. These were deep blue with this little lining of pink. Wow! And then there was a similar tube with mixed pinks and raspberry colors. I got these tubes not knowing exactly what to do with them. But when I got home, I saw a sterling clasp with a violet stone that I already had, and I pictured making three strands of these deep blue beads and attaching them to the clasp to make a bracelet.
This came about after I did some experimentation...I'd seen these very simple bracelets at Cost Plus that were made in India. For these, it was basically a single piece of wire strung with seed beads. The ends of the wire were each a simple loop and they'd just linked the two loops together (not a memory wire bracelet, just a single loop of wire). I started out with this premise and it wasn't bad, but the three-strand-and-clasp idea was better (not dissimilar to the braided bangle, but with the three strands lightly twisted rather than braided).
I'd like to do a necklace to match this bracelet (there are plenty of beads left in the tube).
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