Beaded donut - tutorial. Part 1

Yes, finally it has been finished! Now, as I promised in this entry, it is going to be published on here - it is too long however to post everything at once, it will be published in parts instead. So here is the first one... Enjoy!


What you need:

36 x 6mm round beads
24 x 4mm round beads, color 1
36 x 4mm round beads, color 2
48 x 3mm round beads
264 x seed beads size 10-11 (surely you don’t have to count them ;) )
2 x Beading needle (size 10 should be enough)
Your favourite beading thread (for this project a fishing line 0,20 mm has been used)
This tutorial ;)

The finished piece is 4cm (1,57") wide in diameter


1. Cut a comfortable length of the beading thread, thread the needles on both ends
2. Pick up 1 x seed bead, 1 x 4mm bead (color 1), 1 x 3mm bead, 1 x 4mm bead
and cross the thread in the last bead

3. Pick up 1 x 3mm bead with one needle, 1 x seed bead and 1 x 4mm bead with the other needle
4. Cross the thread in 4mm bead added in step 3
5. Repeat steps 3-4 until you have added 12 4mm beads in total
6. Pick up 1 x 3mm bead with one needle, 1 x seed bead with the other needle
and cross the thread in the first 4mm bead added in step 2 to connect both sides altogether

7. This is how your beadwork should look like at the end of this step:

8. Pass one needle through the seed bead. Do not cut the other end of the thread as
it will be useful later (surely you can get rid of the other needle for now ;) )

9. Pick up 1 x seed bead and pass the needle through the nearest seed bead added in step 3

10. Repeat step 9 until you have added 12 seed beads in total. Do not step up, leave the thread
coming out from a seed bead added in step 3

11. Pick up 1 x 4mm bead, 1 x 3mm bead, 1 x 4mm bead and pass the needle again through
the same seed bead it was coming out

12. Pass the needle through the next two seed beads
13. Pick up 1 x 4mm bead, 1 x 3mm bead and pass the needle through the nearest 4mm bead
added in a previous step

14. Pass the needle through the same seed bead the thread was coming out at the beginning of
previous step

15. Pass the needle though the next two seed beads

16. Repeat steps 13-15 until you have added 12 4mm beads in total.

17. Make sure you have repeated step 15 after adding the last bead, so your thread is coming
out from the seed bead added in step 3. Pass the needle through the first 4mm bead added
in step 13, pick up 1 x 3mm bead and pass the needle through the last 4mm bead added, to
join both sides altogether

18. Pass the needle through the same seed bead the thread was coming out at the beginning
of step 17

19. Pass the needle through one 4mm bead and one 3mm bead

20. Pick up 1 x 3mm bead and pass the needle through the nearest 3mm bead added in step
13. Repeat until you have added 12 3mm beads in total. Do not step up, leave the thread
coming out from the 3mm bead added in step 13

21. This is how your beadwork should look like at this stage:

The next part will be available as soon as possible. So stay here. ;)

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The printer friendly pdf file with the whole instruction is available here on Craftsy and Etsy.

Disclaimer: Please do not sell the items you made from the free tutorials. If you want to sell the items, please purchase the pdf files I offer on Craftsy and Etsy - that gives you the right for selling your creations. Thank you.

And one more beaded donut ;)

I was almost forced to make this one. ;) Yesterday, after showing the previous two pendants on Polski Beading, a few have asked me about the tutorial... Since the pattern was created entirely in my head, there was no other choice but to make the tutorial for them. So the pendant was made, the photos were taken, and now there's some more work ahead of me... but I think the tutorial should be ready within the next two days. It will be available for free for everyone interested in getting it. So stay tuned! ;)



Some more beaded donuts and a crochet necklace

Only some other pattern this time. Two beaded donut pendants made of glass wax pearls, fire polished crystals and seed beads. They are double sided (both sides look the same) and measure 4 cm (1,57") in diameter. Not much else can be written about them though... it's just better to see them, so here they are: :)

The necklace however is just a mere beaded crochet rope, accompanied with three beaded balls. It is 112 cm (44") long, made entirely of Preciosa dark grey, silver lined seed beads, and it can be worn in a few different ways. The two of them shown below are just an example... the necklace gives some more possibilities too.

And, the last thing for today... A beaded crochet bracelet that was strongly inspired by Chudibeads' projects. She makes beautiful beaded ropes, you have to admit! My bracelet though is a bit simpler... and yet it is one of my favourites at the moment. 

So, enjoy and until the next time. :)

For the Brave! ;)

Oh yes, only the brave one can wear this. The Preciosa Volcano crystal surrounded by Toho beads is an extremely eye-catching piece of jewellery. It is huge as for a pendant - 5 cm (2") in diameter and it will be accompanied by a black beaded crochet rope - as soon as I make one certainly. ;) The photo however doesn't really show how beautiful the crystal is... it can be purple, red, orange and blue, depending on light. Truly amazing mix of colours really.

Well, not much can be written about it. Better to see it, so here it is:

So, who's brave enough to wear it? ;)

Ornamental beaded balls

Looks like I needed to rest a bit from the crocheting. So I managed to make four beaded pendants and two pairs of earrings just over one weekend instead. You can't see the earrings yet, since it's a present and a person who is supposed to get them can't see them before they reach her of course. But at least I have three out of four pendants (the last one needs a photo first ;) ) that I can show to you. ;)

The first one was an experiment with the Twin beads. Wanted to check how well they work for beaded balls. And looks like they really don't work too bad. They are accompanied by some wax pearls, and Toho beads in two sizes - 11 and 15 (Permanent Finish Galvanized Fairy Wings and Opaque Frosted Jet). With just some metal bail it works great as a beaded pendant. That ball is 2,5 cm (1") wide in diameter.

The tutorial for this pendant is available on Craftsy and Etsy.

Another pendant was in fact made a few years ago. Only it was just a simple beaded ball that I wasn't really satisfied with. Added some seed beads to that pattern, as well as ten tiny pink cabochons... didn't have the eleventh one so had to add some charm made of chain instead, to fill the last, bottom hole. And somebody has just commented that it looks like a shower... damn! ;P

The pendant is quite long, 9,5 cm (3,54") with the bail and the chains, while the ball is 3 cm (1,18") wide in diameter.

The last pendant is a little bit similar to the previous one, a bit smaller though (2,5 cm again), but it also consists of some Twin beads (the green one doesn't). They are the transparent ones (if you can see them on this poor picture). The base of that ball is made of turquoise bicone crystals with a very nice frosted effect... too bad the photo doesn't really show how beautiful they are. So thank you Julia for chosing them as a birthday present for me... just like the rest of the beads. ;D

The tutorial for this pendant is available on Craftsy and Etsy.

I have a few more ideas for using the Twins... so you should see more beadwork soon. ;)

Come To The Dark Side... ;)

 

Or to the light one, if that is what you prefer. ;)

 

 

Yep, that is the good thing with that kind of bracelet. It's a beaded crochet rope (of course! ;) ), made of Czech glass silver-lined seed beads, twenty beads per row and flattened, so I can actually wear it with the dark side on the front or the light one if that's what I feel like. The bronze and the beige work well together, and those silver sparkling holes actually make the bracelet look like its colours interfuse. The effect looks better for real though. Anyway, that's how the entire bracelet looks like:



The bronze/beige bracelet has been actually made as a second rope of that style. The first one, which also was my training bracelet, since I was just learning this technique of bead crocheting, was black and red, with a little bit of gold. Used Chech seed beads for that one too. Actually, this shade of red is one of my favourite colours amongst all of Preciosa/Jablonex beads. It has one big flaw though. The colour wears off easily. However, my affection for this colour and the need of using it as often as possible contributed to something good at least - I have found a great way for protecting the beads and no more wearing the colour off for me! ;D Wonder if I should share the secret, though. ;)

Well, that's how the mentioned above bracelet look like:

And it can be worn like this:

 Or this:

And no, the stripes aren't boring! Below you can see the proof that the statement was true for me. ;)
They only need to be finished now... oh well, making the right angle weave endings for all of them will probably require ten years or so... ;P

Hopefully I can finish them sooner, though. ;)

The project of my life ;)

At least until I make another one, I suppose. ;)

Well, I'm not a good planner. At least when it comes to jewelry. Whatever I plan to make, it turns out to be something completely different. From a simple pearl pendant to the project of my life? Of course it is possible! ;)

So yes, it was just started with a simple tiny beaded pendant, a glass pearl embellished with some black silver lined Czech seed beads and metal antique gold 3mm round beads. When I made it however, I wasn't really satisfied with it... there was something missing, only I didn't know what. Putting it inside a peyote three-dimensional open square perhaps? Why not, it was worth to give it a try. And so it has worked. ;)

Okay. So I had a pendant. But did it really fit as a pendant? Still it wasn't something I expected, wanted something more. If not a pendant, then a part of a necklace? Sounded like a better idea. But what should I hang it on? Seed beads? Wax cord? Beaded crochet rope? Couldn't really decide... Maybe all of them then? ;)

So there is a wax cord, and there is a beaded crochet rope too. Seed beads combined with more antique gold metal balls don't look too bad together I suppose. At least it made me quite satisfied with it.

And this is how the necklace looks like:

It couldn't remain a single piece of jewelry though, so decided to make two matching bracelets, of completely different style, and a pair of earrings. Was working for almost three days on them all... but I hope it was worth all the work.

Hopefully someone will like it enough to become an owner of this set. ;)