December 05, 2006

New Beads

After several attempts at figuring out how I wanted to attach the clasp I made one vital error!

I fixed it and here's the finished necklace. Just what you wanted to see - a 55 year old neck close up!

When I took the right angle weave class the instructed has us use Nymo B doubled. I see instructions for netted or woven beads using single strands of Nymo D and some with single strands of Nymo B. In this necklace you can see where I had to go through beads more than once and I don't really like that. Any suggestions?

I started a new necklace which is much prettier in real life. I've used Topaz Iris seed beads but you can't see the beautiful shading. I forget what the blue beads are called but they are cylindrical.

Posted by Charleen at December 5, 2006 12:35 PM
Comments

The necklace is beautiful. Love it!

Posted by: Brooke at December 5, 2006 06:35 PM

Yummmmmmmy!

Posted by: Cheryl at December 5, 2006 06:40 PM

Pretty :-), and hey, I have a neck that old. I think yours looks better. Were you thinking of bugle beads?

Posted by: Sara at December 5, 2006 07:42 PM

Very pretty.....including a neck of the same vintage as mine!

Posted by: Valerie at December 5, 2006 10:07 PM

My standard for netting is a strand of B, since you always end up passing through at least some of the beads twice. I like netting with drape and will sometimes do the stabilizing rows, a band around the top of a bag for instance, with a strand of B and the rest of the netting with a strand of A. Are you using 11's?

It really does help to think of beadwork as fabric.

Posted by: Sylvia at December 5, 2006 10:10 PM

Very nice!!

Posted by: Cathy at December 5, 2006 11:06 PM

I love those golden colours. And the blue's pretty - so delicate. Don't know nuffin' 'bout nymo, but...

Posted by: M-H at December 6, 2006 03:51 AM

Your beadwork is lovely!

Posted by: Kim at December 6, 2006 11:01 PM

Very nice beadwork, and the weaving...Fabulous. I knew visiting your blog would inspire me to get the creative part of me in gear...I scrolled down and picked up that recipe too! Thanks!

Posted by: LadyV at December 7, 2006 05:08 PM

I think that neck is looking pretty damn good.

Posted by: claudia at December 8, 2006 05:31 PM

I hope you got my note yesterday. I'm still coveting that blanket!

Posted by: Angi at December 10, 2006 01:27 AM