I’ve been digging through my bead stash and wondering what to do with these turquoise teardrop beads. I only had a few of them so there wasn’t enough to make a bracelet but with a little bit of wire, I jazzed them up and made them into earring components! Wire wrapping works well with round beads […]
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Seed Bead Project For Bead Along: Done!
Well, here it is at last – my Summer Lace Necklace – and my first entry for the Bead Along with Off the Beaded Path. Only 4 days after the deadline! It was due on 15th April, but I just didn’t finish it in time. Reminds me of my old school reports, which stated things […]
5 Fantastic Felt Bird Projects
Lately I’ve been looking for inspiration on the internet for how to make felt birds in the hope of creating a mobile for my daughter’s bedroom. There are some really beautiful projects out there! Here are some of my favourite felt bird projects, most with free tutorials, from some very creative crafters who have allowed […]
Points To Consider When Getting Started In Bead Weaving
Bead weaving is the art of stringing together tiny seed beads to form pieces of jewellery or decorative works of art. There are two methods to bead weaving – either using a loom (a special tool for weaving beads together) – or using off loom techniques which means threading beads together with special beading needles […]
Felting For Baby By Saori Yamazaki: Book Review
If there is one gorgeous baby project feltmaking book, in my opinion this one has got be up right up there in first place. ‘Felting for Baby’ by Saori Yamazaki contains 25 projects for babies and toddlers. The photos inside this book are just stunning and you’re going to want to make every single one […]
How To Make Jump Rings or Split Rings
Today, I thought I would post a quick tutorial on how to make another useful jewellery finding! Below are step by step instructions on how to make jump rings (or split rings). What’s a jump ring again? A jump ring is a little coil of wire used in jewellery making, which can be pulled apart […]
How To Make A Charm Bracelet
It’s been snowing so much recently even though it’s meant to be Spring, so I felt like making something bright and white! This is a free tutorial for how to make a charm bracelet. I’ve made beaded charms here, but you can use whatever jewellery components you like: kitsch; steampunk, gemstones; precious metals; whatever you […]
Beading Book Review: Metallic Seed Bead Splendor by Nancy Zellers
It’s here at last! Yippee! I absolutely couldn’t wait to get hold of this beading book – Metallic Seed Bead Splendor – by Nancy Zellers as I will be using it to guide me through the Bead Along project with Off the Beaded Path! This is the first time that I’ve been involved in a Bead Along […]
How To Make A Felt Heart
After I made my felt beads the other day, I had a little bit of purple wool top fibres leftover. Hmmm, what to make?! I decided to attempt this 3D felt heart – I’m quite into decorative hearts and have a good few of them hanging around in different places throughout my home! Anyway, I followed […]
How To Make Felt Beads
Making felt beads is really fun and relatively easy. Felting is the process of turning wool into a dense hard fabric (felt) and these felt beads are made using a wet felting technique. Below is a quick step by step tutorial about how to make them! You’ll need the following: Merino dyed wool tops – mixed […]
