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02-13-2011, 12:16 AM #1Master Dollar Stretcher
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Beaded bookmarks
I am trying to work my way through a huge stash of beads, so I started making a beaded bookmark, using seed beads. It is slow going, but has a lot of promise for interesting bookmarks down the road. My current one is just a single colour, with a border, but I am starting to work on a pattern for the next one, which will be wider and a bit more elaborate.
Here is the progress on my first, simple, bookmark so far:DH aka Mad Hen
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How neat and creative!
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Looks really good MH!! What do you string the beads on?
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It looks so pretty, love the colors. You are so creative and motivated, thanks for the inspiration.
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Looks great madhen!
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MM, along with my bead stash, I have a bunch of bead string (Silamide) in different colours. I also have regular sewing thread, and I am trying that on my second project, because I loop through the same beads so many times, there is pretty much no chance the beads would fall off if a strand broke.
Here is the second one, although I think I'll end up keeping it, because the border beads appear to be just a teeny bit bigger than the interior beads, and it is throwing the look off.DH aka Mad Hen
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Actually MH - that is a great look - makes me want to rub my fingers over the beads.
I've never done beading like this - so if you are adding the beads across the work, does anything keep the beads together on the vertical or are they loose?Travel light. The baggage of the past can only hold you back.
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You typically add only two beads at a time, and you are constantly working the thread through the previous row, so you end up with a very tightly bound product. Basically, you work in little circles of four beads at a time (two on the row you are working on and the two in the row below), if you can picture it. You can take a pair of scissors to it afterward and cut straight through, and typically, if you've done it right, you still won't be able to easily remove any beads from the work.
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I get it - mahalo! Are you using a wire thin flexible needle?
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Yes, I'm using a size 12 beading needle.
DH aka Mad Hen
(http://mad-hen-creations.blogspot.com/)
June no-spend: 0/15 June wasted money: $0 June grocery: $0/400
2012 LAPAW: 8.8/20 2012 Get-Thee-To-The-Gym Challenge: 7/52
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Total debt (with mortgage, HELOC, and 1 cc): Jan 2012: $285,105 (Jan 2011: $292,750) (2911 days until retirement)
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02-13-2011, 04:31 PM #11
Wow, awesome. Looks great and it looks like a lot of work.
It is what it is.
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Both of them look great MH. Pretty TEDIOUS stuff!!
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I don't think that my eyes could handle this type of work anymore!!
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It does get tedious and you do get eye strain. That is part of what takes so long - you have to take a lot of breaks!!
DH aka Mad Hen
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June no-spend: 0/15 June wasted money: $0 June grocery: $0/400
2012 LAPAW: 8.8/20 2012 Get-Thee-To-The-Gym Challenge: 7/52
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thats very nice
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