#beadcraft

Use up time!! Some seed beads I’ve had forever, stained silk thread and a scrap bit of cloth. Always forget how Extra beadwork is…. What do you mean I can’t pick up more than three/four beads at a time or it gets a bit wonky?? And I have to go through each bead twice?? Astounding.

Necklace "Alma Peregrine" for true English lady in three shadows of blue and gold lace 😍 It's awesome, elegant and stylish as miss P is 💙.

The finished set! All those beads I bought (as well as the beads I intended to use up in the first place) are all present and accounted for. Which just goes to show how hungry beading is! At least now I can fit all the bigger beads I have left into my storage box again. And who knows, maybe in the far far distant future I’ll do some more beading projects.

Things I learnt:

Wherever you think you should put your needle full of beads, put it a little further.

Tension issues are more of a thing than I ever thought possible.

You WILL want to thread more than three beads at a time, that is the devil talking. The devil wants you to make shapes that have the texture of a photographed water droplet hitting a lake surface. That is not always a bad thing, but you do have to think very very carefully if going a tad faster is worth that risk.

Consistent design will require many many adjustments and will look stunning when done right but the chaos of “same colour family” and “pick up some beads and thread them without looking” also looks stunning and doesn’t require a close scrutiny of every bead you’ve picked up.

Quick pit stop on the coasters to bang out a bug brooch for my eldest sister to go with her newly created bug vest but don’t tell her because it’s going in her birthday gift which is not for ages yet)