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FREE Beading Pattern: Bugle Butterfly Necklace
FREE Beading Pattern: Bugle Butterfly Necklace

FREE Beading Pattern for Bugle Butterfly Necklace

July 1, 2020 / / 4 Comments

I love this new butterfly necklace design, made from #3 (7mm) bugle beads, 4mm or 6mm beads or crystals, and 8/0 and 15/0 seed beads. You can create one or more butterfly components in a string, then finish off the necklace with jump rings to attach your chain of choice. I got the idea looking at one of my older designs (Bugle Triangles Necklace), and seeing that part of the triangle component looked a bit like a butterfly wing. It took several tries to construct something that resembled a whole butterfly, and to figure out the best thread path, but I am very happy with the result. It is also fairly quick to make. I always use 6lb Fireline when working with bugles, so the thread does not break on the bugles’ edges. I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!

FREE Beading Pattern: Bugle Butterfly Necklace
FREE Beading Pattern: Bugle Butterfly Necklace

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FREE Beading pattern: Caged Bead Earrings
FREE Beading pattern: Caged Bead Earrings

FREE Beading Pattern for Caged Bead Earrings

June 11, 2020 / / 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!

FREE Beading pattern: Caged Bead Earrings
FREE Beading pattern: Caged Bead Earrings

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FREE beading pattern: Jordana Earrings
FREE beading pattern: Jordana Earrings

FREE Beading Pattern for Jordana Earrings

February 2, 2020 / / 7 Comments
FREE beading pattern: Jordana Earrings
FREE beading pattern: Jordana Earrings

This is a stunning yet simple design, which encases a 14mm Rivoli crystal inside a cage made of #5 and #3 bugle beads, 11/0 TOHO seed beads (2 colors), and 15/0 seed beads (plus a 6/0 or 8/0 seed bead for the jump ring to go through). I probably made 10 different versions of this concept before arriving at the right geometry, that would hold the rivoli in place securely, and keep the cage from moving/skewing too much at the joints. All bugle beads used (#5 and #3) are from Hobby Lobby. The metalic TOHO beads are from FireMountan Gems (Permafinish galvanized, to resist tarnishing). The accent color TOHO beads are from Michaels (matte black for the purple/silver piece, silver-lined aqua for the aqua/silver piece, and clear rose peach for the peach/gold piece). Finally, the 14mm Rivoli crystals are from FireMountan Gems. The thing I like best about this particular pattern is how relatively fast they are to make. I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!

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Video Tutorial: Jordana Earrings

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FREE Beading Pattern: Chip Fringe Earrings
FREE Beading Pattern: Chip Fringe Earrings

FREE Beading Pattern for Chip Fringe Earrings

October 10, 2018 / / 3 Comments

My apologies for erroneous e-mails sent from my website recently. I had been hacked.  I believe the problem is resolved, but there may be a few already-queued e-mails I couldn’t stop from going out before this post notification – kindly ignore those. On a more positive note, here is an earring design to coordinate with my previous Chip Fringe Necklace design.  This pattern also features beautiful bugle fringes with coraled ends, hanging off a superduo beaded chain connected into a small circle.  It was a bit tricky to convey this 3-D pattern in a 2-D diagram, but I tried my best – I hope it is clear enough to follow.  Below were the materials I used.  I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!

FREE Beading Pattern: Chip Fringe Earrings

FREE Beading Pattern: Chip Fringe Earrings

11/0 seed beads 2.5 x 5mm Superduos Bugles Chips
Metalic dark gold TOHO
Dyna-Mites silver-lined transparent rainbow gold		 Bronze Fire Red Czech Superduos 12mm gold Red/orange Adventurine (I think)
Dyna-Mites silver-lined transparent rainbow light aqua
TOHO black hematite		 Black hematite Superduos #3 Twisted Light Blue Blue crackle-glass chip
Czech satin metallic bronze
Dyna-Mites Iris Green		 Bronze aluminum Superduos #3 Iris green Dark green natural stone
Dyna-Mites Purple transparent rainbow
Dyna-Mites silver-lined transparent rainbow silver		 Jet Metallic Suede Purple Superduos #3 Twisted Silver Amethyst

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FREE beading pattern: Chip Fringe
FREE beading pattern: Chip Fringe

FREE beading pattern for Chip Fringe Necklace

May 13, 2018 / / 8 Comments

This is my latest design: a V-shape necklace featuring beautiful bugle fringes with coraled ends, hanging off a superduo beaded chain.  The use of natural stone drilled chips (or any drilled chips with some color variation) gives an organic feel to this necklace.  It was fun to experiment with different color combinations, and I love how all of them turned out!  The pattern requires twin or superduo beads, 11/0 seed beads (1 or 2 colors), bugle beads (any size), and small to medium drilled chips.  The last photo with the blue lapis chips shows a variation where I added half the fringe (alternating from every other twin bead instead of every twin bead) with 4 – 5 chips in the coral end instead of 2.  I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!

FREE beading pattern: Chip Fringe

FREE beading pattern: Chip Fringe

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