Re: very pretty!kittnslaveFebruary 3 2007, 17:03:54 UTC
I do - I am just getting back into it -I set it aside for a year or so while I was going through the divorce and all - but I am back to it since christmas - and I have just picked up a lot of natural beads to work with...
It won't surprise you that none of them are selections I'd make. I still think you did a beautiful job on them.
Do you have one of the tools (I forget what they're called, sorry) that can clamp a bead onto wire without having another bead next to it, or only have a tiny bead next to it? So you have bare wire showing?
I've noticed a trend among most of the people I see out and about toward more wire, fewer beads, and where there are beads, large ones with maybe one smaller one on each side (and then a teeny tiny one on the outside of the cluster).
Just a thought :) Again, I do think you have done a terrific job on these.
Not all of them are my style either - some of them were requests :)
The only tools I use on my pieces are a pair of cutters and a pair of needlenose pliers :) I don't have a bead reamer (for clearing out or enlarging the whole in most beads) I don't have a crimper (which is what I think you are describing) nor do I use a beading board - I just do everything by eye and watch it fall into place.
Thanks for the ideas - I am at the moment just doing what feels right to me...but I may try more later once I get some of the other ideas out of my head
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I really enjoy the beading and have been getting more of the stones to work with as opposed to the glass.
The pink and grey is nice (though pink really isn't my colour but it came out well :) )
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Do you have one of the tools (I forget what they're called, sorry) that can clamp a bead onto wire without having another bead next to it, or only have a tiny bead next to it? So you have bare wire showing?
I've noticed a trend among most of the people I see out and about toward more wire, fewer beads, and where there are beads, large ones with maybe one smaller one on each side (and then a teeny tiny one on the outside of the cluster).
Just a thought :) Again, I do think you have done a terrific job on these.
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The only tools I use on my pieces are a pair of cutters and a pair of needlenose pliers :) I don't have a bead reamer (for clearing out or enlarging the whole in most beads) I don't have a crimper (which is what I think you are describing) nor do I use a beading board - I just do everything by eye and watch it fall into place.
Thanks for the ideas - I am at the moment just doing what feels right to me...but I may try more later once I get some of the other ideas out of my head
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