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FREE beading pattern for Marissa Earrings

July 6, 2021 / admin / 3 Comments

Enjoy a free video tutorial to accompany the PDF download for this design! I love the old-world lacy feel of this earring design, as well as its kite shape – simple but elegant. I really enjoyed experimenting with different color combinations, and I’m sure you will too. They are very quick and easy to make. I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!

Materials

These earrings require eight 6mm bicone crystals, 11/0 TOHO seed beads, and two 6/0 or 8/0 seed beads to connect the ear hooks or clips via jump rings. I use 6 lb. Fireline with a size 10 needle for construction.

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FREE beading pattern for Sarina Necklace

January 15, 2021 / admin / 0 Comments

Similar to my “Rondelle Radiance” challenge, this design was inspired by a single package of round beads on sale at Michael’s, which included four sizes (4mm, 6mm, 8mm, and 10mm).

I wanted to design a necklace using all four sizes of the round beads, and this “Sarina Necklace” is the result. The finished necklace is about 19 inches long (including clasp), but can be made longer by making the “chain” section longer than 5 inches at both ends. The pattern also requires 2 colors of 11/0 TOHO seed beads (one color matching the round beads, plus an accent color), as well as two 6/0 or 8/0 seed beads to connect a clasp at both ends via jump rings. This is a 2-page pattern, and materials are listed on the 2nd page.

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FREE beading pattern: Rondelle Radiance Necklace

FREE beading pattern for Rondelle Radiance Necklace

November 2, 2020 / admin / 1 Comment

This is the last post in my “Rondell Radiance” series, where I challenged myself to design a matching bracelet, earrings, and necklace set using a single package of rondelle crystals of different sizes.

After the Rondelle Radiance Bracelet and Earrings from my last 2 posts, I had 17 8x10mm, 3 6x8mm, 15 4x6mm, and 4 3x4mm rondelle crystals left to work with.

This necklace design requires all of the 8x10mm and 4x6mm rondelles I had left, so the only left-over crystals after this challenge are three 6x8mm and four 3x4mm rondelles… not bad! This necklace also requires 11/0 and 8/0 seed beads plus a lobster clasp and two jump rings at both ends. This design makes a 17″ necklace, but can be extended by including more of diamond-shaped “chain” links at the beginning and end.

This necklace design is made in 2 rows, but even making it with only the first row looks nice too.

FREE beading pattern: Rondelle Radiance Necklace (one row only)

Since I did not make a bracelet for the bronze/cream piece, I had extra 3x4mm rondelles to include a variation on the first row of the necklace (using 16 3x4mm rondelles instead of the 8/0 seed beads).

FREE beading pattern: Rondelle Radiance Necklace (variation)

Both variations look nice. I hope you enjoy this design series, and this free beading pattern!

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FREE beading pattern: Rondelle Radiance Earrings

FREE beading pattern for Rondelle Radiance Earrings

October 12, 2020 / admin / 3 Comments

This is the 2nd post in my “Rondelle Radiance” series, where I challenged myself to design a matching bracelet, earrings, and necklace set using a single package of rondelle crystals of different sizes.

After the Rondelle Radiance Bracelet from my last post, I had 23 8x10mm, 9 6x8mm, 19 4x6mm, and 14 3x4mm rondelles left to work with.

I wanted to utilize all four rondelle sizes for the earrings, so this is the design I came up with. Making both earrings requires six 8x10mm, six 6x8mm, four 4x6mm, and ten 3x4mm rondelles, plus 11/0 TOHO seed beads and two 8/0 seed beads to connect ear hooks via jump rings. I hope you enjoy this design series, and this free beading pattern. Stay tuned for another upcoming free pattern for the Rondelle Radiance Necklace!

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FREE Beading pattern: Caged Bead Earrings

FREE Beading Pattern for Caged Bead Earrings

June 11, 2020 / BeadDiagrams.com Administrator / 1 Comment

This is a simple geometric design, which encases a 10mm round bead or crystal inside a cage made of #5 (12mm) bugle beads, 8/0 seed beads, and 15/0 seed beads (plus a 6/0 or 8/0 seed bead for the jump ring to go through). I had played with this simple geometric shape in the past, but had never been satisfied with the exposed sharp edges of the bugle beads, or how visible the thread was. In addition, the bugles would shift around the joints (where the 4 bugle edges come together), making it uneven. I then came up with the idea of covering each joint with a 8/0 and 15/0 seed bead to both cover the sharp edges and hide the thread. At first, I struggled with finding a thread path that would not go through the 15/0 seed beads too many times. After many tries, I found the best solution was to construct the entire bead cage first, then cover the joints at the end (as opposed to trying to incorporate them while building the cage). The 8/0 seed beads also served to stabilize the joints from shifting around, which was a bonus. After I nailed down this method, I was able to quickly make many of them to try different color combinations. I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!

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