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Beading Blog - thebroadroom.net: Rambles...
Rambles...
posted by Colleen Shirazi,
March 21, 2007
at 6:52 PM (Pacific)
No pics today, hence the title "Rambles." :D
I made a nice bracelet yesterday, and put the crimp covers on it today, meaning I intend to keep the design. I always wear a new piece all day without crimp covers (if it's a piece with crimps of course :p) because much of the time I flake out and end up redoing the piece. I have successfully re-used crimp covers but it's difficult; much easier just to wear the piece all day crimp-cover-less.
It's a bracelet with four loosely twisted strands, made out of those (natural?) pink one-sided button pearls, top drilled, and some definitely not-gem-grade tourmaline rondelles.
Earlier I tried making a "flat" design of the pearls but somehow the duller, flat sides always ended up flipping on top. With the twisted strands, at least as many domed sides show as flat ones. The tourmaline...none of it is transparent. Some pieces are translucent while others are utterly opaque, but the "rough" appearance makes it look nice. These tourmalines range in color from your classic watermelon pink, to greenish, greyish, blackish and plum colors.
I also put crimp covers on a two-strand citrine and silver bracelet that I haven't photographed yet either. It's a pretty simple minimal piece, but I like citrine paired with lots of silver.
Also made a new bracelet today to match the peridot and vermeil necklace in the previous post. Here again it occurred to me how long it takes me to make anything. This is the same peridot I bought at the Gem Faire last October (blogged here), with a clasp I got a few months ago, spacer bars I got from a bead shop (I do most of my shopping online now, with the occasional bead show when possible), Bali beads direct from Bali...easily six months per piece.Labels: beading notes
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