The Alluring Bead Boutique

My grandmother used to call it Decoration Day. She was born and the end of the 19th century and was no stranger to loss from war.  In her lifetime,  she had to deal with the stresses and losses of at least four major wars. She was already a young woman during the first world War and had four of her sons serve during the second.  One of whom, never came home. She had grandsons who also served in…

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…

Another Beaded Floral – Sculpted Peyote Leaves

Welcome to a new lovely Beaded Floral Tutorial. For the next few weeks, I am going to explore a vital part of floral beadwork, the Leaf.  In this post I will demonstrate how to make this peyote based sculpted leaf. I have experimented with several tutorials on YouTube to see what works and what doesn’t. As you may know there are lots of tutorials shared by the international community. Some are…

Flowers Flowers Everywhere – Six Petaled Flower Part 2 – The Flower

Welcome to Part 2 of the beautiful Six Petaled Flower tutorial. In Part 1, I demonstrated how to make the lovely cupped petals with a lustrous pearl inside.  Now we are ready to combine the petals and insert a shiny rivoli into the center.  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. Materials and…

Flowers Flowers Everywhere – Six Petaled Flower Part 1 – The Petals

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 a two part lesson, I will show you how I made this lovely Six Petaled Flower. The technique used is a modification of peyote stitch. The lovely cupped petals are all stitched separately and then…

Flowers Flowers Everywhere – Layered Five Petaled Flower

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. In this lesson, I will expand on the Five Petaled Flower tutorial from a few weeks ago. I made two flowers of different size. And then I stitched them together using the sections of herringbone for an…