Odila Necklace

I do enjoy designing and beading a good spiral, this is a variation on the Dutch Spiral, it is a very large spiral and is not for the faint hearted! If you do decide to make the Odila Necklace I hope you had as much fun as I did.

 

 

 

 

 

Pashmina Pin

I love to make beaded beads and usually I create a necklave with them, but this week I decided to make just one special beaded and use it to make a Pashmina Pin.

Grace Necklace - Brick stitch spiral

Customers often ask me where I get the inspiration for all the bead designs. Inspiration comes from so many sources but this weeks design started life as a flat piece of brick stitch that was destined to become a bracelet, but it kept curling up looking like a tube, then I thought that of all the spiral ropes I have made I have never done one in brick stitch, so I started the piece again as a tubular rope. I have really enjoyed using the Rizo beads over the last few weeks and they sit perfectly with size 6 seed beads. I called the design Grace's Necklace.

 

I will be teaching Grace's Necklace at our workshops on 18th & 19th April 2013. Please contact GJBeads on 01736 751 070 to book a place.

Rizo Element Bracelet

I had such a great time designing and making the Rizo Element Bracelet. Once again I achieved a much higher standard of finish using Miyuki seed beads.

Rizo Rivoli Ring

My next project with Rizo Beads used a beautiful Swarovski Rivoli as a centre piece to create the Rizo Rivoli Ring I found that I achieved much better results with the pattern if I used Miyuki seed beads throughout the piece.

Rizo Beads

I have had great fun beading with the new Rizo beads over the last few weeks. My first project was Spiral Rope #19 Rizo Spiral it worked up really quickly and I was delighted with the result.