#beading projects

Russian Leaf Variation – Working in a Round

Welcome to a new lovely Beaded Floral Tutorial. Today I will be sharing a tutorial for another beaded leaf.  I was pleasantly surprised that this Russian Leaf looking project could be worked in a round. And I decided right away to share it with you.  The traditional Russian Leaf is worked as a peyote strip using increases and decreases (diagonal peyote) and then joined at the top…

Flowers Flowers Everywhere – Trillium – Sculpted Peyote

Welcome to another fresh and beautiful flower tutorial. Florals seem like the perfect way to brighten up the grey winter days.  I hope you are enjoying this series of projects as much as I am. Today I am going to explore a different type of sculpted peyote project with you and show you how I made this three petalled Trillium bloom. I got the idea from a pendant project by Cathy Andrews called…

Welcome to a new lovely Beaded Floral Tutorial. Today I will be sharing a tutorial for my second leaf. Last time, I shared a lesson for creating a Sculpted Leaf. In this post I will demonstrate how to make this peyote based flat leaf. The leaf I will show you today is a variation on one I had done quite a while ago, called Beaded Autumn Leaf. I hope to get a written form of the old version done…

Flowers Flowers Everywhere – Sculpted Flower Petal or Leaf Variation 2

Welcome to another fresh and beautiful flower tutorial. These lovely Florals are certainly brightening up my grey winter days.  I hope you are enjoying this series of projects as much as I am. In today’s tutorial, I am going to show you how I created a variation of the petals in the last flower we made, Six Petal Flower. Instead of using a pearl bead in the initial setup, I replaced it with an…