Thanks to Chrisbeads for including my Imladris Gloves in this Australian collection of lovely red and black creations from the DUSTteam September colour theme

You can view the treasury here


My favourite Chrisbeads creation is this Snake Bracelet Pattern - awesome!

Made from a variety of seed beads using a spiral technique

This flower hair clip was based on a design from a book a friend lent me. It could be created with a variety of seed bead colours to make different specific flowers, but the width of the petals is somewhat dependent of the strength of the wire in holding each line of beads.



Each petal is created by adding 3 beads to the centre of a length of wire, then rows of 6 beads which both ends of the wire is fed through.
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I added two centre sprouts and a hair clip to the bottom, and am quite happy with how it turned out

This ring is created from shiny blue seed beads that I got from a closing down sale a while back. I just used plain thread so it is one size only. The difficulty with this design was joining the first row to the last in a secure and neat enough way to keep the ring strong enough to wear.

This tiara was created using clear sead beads and very thin purple wire. A requirement here was finding wire that could be threaded twice through the same bead. You make it in a zigzag pattern.

This bracelet was designed in imitation of pink seafan coral. It uses sead beads to create the joined beaded effect of some coral types. To create the coral strands I used this technique shown on the right. The clasp was joined with the same technique, using small crimp beads threaded back through the blue beads to secure the ends of the thread. Design image available here

I created this bracelet about a year ago when I was thinking of the white houses with bright blue doors of Mykonos. The houses are set against a sky which is matches the blue of the doors and balconies.

I designed the pattern as I went along, but it turned out to include some open triangle shapes that resemble swimming fish in a line. The clasp is made up of a beaded loop and a ball that fits inside it. I used somewhat elastic thread, which allows the clasp to stay firm but in retrospect causes some difficulties with keeping the consistancy of the beading across the band itself.