Bracelets Made of Earrings

For a light evening beading project I chose to make this lovely earrings called Mia from BeadsMagic

I was so pleased with how it turned out and how easy and fast it was to make one square so I just kept making them until I had enough for a bracelet. I have rather thick bones so I needed 6 squares for my hand. For my friend's hand I only had to use 5 squares. I have tried different clasp solutions with every one of them to not be to repetitive.

My favourite one is the first one I made - bronze with clear bicones.

Don't know what it is about it but I just LOVE how it turned out. There is something about it what gives it this wow factor. Is it the metallic bronze beads? Or the clear bicones? I have never used any of them for any other project before but now it's gonna be one of my favourite combinations.

Gold and green.

After finishing the first one I was truly convinced that metallic beads with any bicone would give me this WOW effect - I was wrong! My expectations were so high and the gold bracelet didn't deliver. Now, what if I would replace the bicone for some lighter colour? Would that be a solution?

Pastels.

I have shown few colour combinations to a friend of mine and she encouraged me to continue with this blue/green/peach mix. I personally have mixed feelings about it, but I learn to be more open minded about the accessories I make. Something I like might not necessary be also nice for others and vice versa.

Which colour combination is your favourite?

Flat double spiral stitch bracelet

I was going for a holiday, back to my country, where I have arranged a catch up with some of my high school girlfriends. I thought it would be great to share with them my new growing skill and surprise them with little handmade gifts. I decided to make many bracelets and each of my friends could choose the one she likes the most. I needed patterns that wouldn't be time consuming, but still very effective. Flat double spiral stitch is exactly like this! Pearls and gold are my longtime favourite combination so I started from that one. It took me only around an hour to finish that bracelet and I was in love in how impressive it looks! That is why I decided to make one more, but in different colour scheme.

Today's tip: This stitch is very flexible and easily curves, you could make a necklace out of it as well. Also, you can always double it as showed in this video.

Pattern from pandahall.com

Necklace Dita

I've started this one right after the first delivery of beads and crystals. Lime green is recently my thing (together with the orange-pink, but can't really find any beads this colour!) but even then it took me a while to choose base colour. I've been worried that any kind of silver lining, or pearl effect, with a combination of this many crystals, might end up looking too glamour. I wanted to achieve more 'everyday' look so I went for this translucent green. Bicones are I believe grey, with this opalescent effect, thought next to the seed beads they appear quite greenish themselves! Magic.

Today's tip: It's good to think through the bead combination of a planned project. Not only based on colours, but also on a style which you're willing to achieve. As more experience you get as easier it will be to imagine the final effect.

Pattern from beadsmagic.com

Necklace Cranberry

While waiting for a large seed bead and crystal delivery from all over the Internet my bead choices were rather limited. For this simple necklace I ended up reusing some opalescent plastic beads from my old bracelet. I have combined them with medium blue Japanese seed beads size 11/0 and  few transparent Czech seed beads with neon yellow lining. I absolutely love the colour combination, it looks so vibrant and modern. I just regret that the crystals are plastic and don't have as much shine as I would like them to have. Well, I would just have to make another one.

Today's tip: Japanese seed beads are much more consistent in size than the Czech seed beads.

Pattern from: beadsmagic.com