Bracelet

I made this


With these



Using brick stitch around each glass bead.

Bracelet finished

I finished my bracelet after many trips to my shed to make new beads. I really love it.

Lampwork and Clay Bracelets

Here are two bracelets I made with some of my Lampwork beads and some clay beads made by a very talented young lady.




I've used leather with a simple knot between each bead.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bumblinbeads

Laura McCabe necklace day eight

Here's the progress so far. I think it's going well but I'll be running out of a key bead colour soon.

Bracelet Progress

The beads I made look really good.



This is progress so far. I'll need to make more beads but I'm very pleased with how it's looking.

Bracelet

This time the dye worked better


I had a go at making the bracelet with some pearls and gemstones I have but couldn't quite follow the method in the magazine because the thread I wanted to use wouldn't go twice through the holes. I have some alternative beads now cooling very slowly in my kiln. Hopefully they will work better.

Bracelet making

I wanted to make a bracelet featured in the magazine Making Jewellery.

I had some natural leather and had read about natural plant dyes. I liked the idea so thought I'd give it a try.

I like green so I thought I would use mint. I found a good website and followed the first step of preparing for the dye. My leather went from this


To this



Not what I was aiming for!

I now have another bit of leather soaking in green food colouring and water to see if that works. No hot water has been used!