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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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FREE beading pattern: Laguna Earrings
FREE beading pattern: Laguna Earrings

FREE beading pattern for Laguna Earrings

March 24, 2018 / / 4 Comments

Here is an earring pattern that coordinates nicely with the Laguna Necklace from my last post.  Same as the necklace, this pattern requires 11/0 seed beads (plus a 6/0 or 8/0 seed bead at the top of each earring for connecting a jump ring), Superduo or twin beads (2.5 x 5mm), 4mm beads, and one 8mm bead or crystal for the center of each earring.  The pattern can be done using only one color of seed beads (like the dark gold/orange/turquoise piece, or the green/purple/aqua piece), or two colors of seed beads (like the black hematite/light aqua piece, the gold/clear/green piece, or the light blue/lavender/silver piece).  I found this design works wonderfully in a variety of color combinations.  I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!

FREE beading pattern: Laguna Earrings
FREE beading pattern: Laguna Earrings
11/0 seed beads2.5mm x 5mm Superduos or twins4mm beads8mm bead
Metalic dark gold rocaille (Miyuki)Chalk Travertine SuperduosOrange glass, and Turquoise roundOrange glass round
Dyna-Mites silver-lined transparent rainbow light aqua, and TOHO black hematiteBlack hematite SuperduosMontana AB druksAcrylic Wonder bead, light blue
Green lined transparentPurple SuperduosCapri blue matte druksDark aqua Czech round faceted crystal
TOHO gold, and Clear ABClear AB SuperduosGreen Adventurine, roundGreen Adventurine, round
Dyna-Mites rainbow clear light blue, and TOHO silverTransparent pearl lavender twin beadsLight Blue AB bicone crystalsLight Blue AB bicone crystal

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FREE beading pattern: Laguna Necklace
FREE beading pattern: Laguna Necklace

FREE beading pattern for Laguna Necklace

February 25, 2018 / / 4 Comments

This is my latest design, featuring a diamond shaped pendant on an embellished Superduo chain.  The pattern requires 11/0 seed beads, Superduo or twin beads (2.5 x 5mm), 4mm beads, and one 8mm bead or crystal for the center of the pendant.  The pattern can be done using only one color of seed beads (like the dark gold/orange/turquoise piece, or the green/purple/aqua piece), or two colors of seed beads (like the black hematite/light aqua piece, the gold/clear/green piece, or the light blue/lavender/silver piece).  I really enjoyed experimenting with different color combinations in this design, and was especially happy with how well the light-aqua silver-lined seed beads complimented the black hematite Superduos.  I’ve tried black hematite with different colors in the past, but this is by far my favorite compliment to black hematite yet.  I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!

FREE beading pattern: Laguna Necklace
FREE beading pattern: Laguna Necklace
11/0 seed beadsSuperduos or twins4mm beads8mm bead
Metalic dark gold rocaille (Miyuki)Chalk Travertine SuperduosOrange glass, and Turquoise roundOrange glass round
Dyna-Mites silver-lined transparent rainbow light aqua, and TOHO black hematiteBlack hematite SuperduosMontana AB druksAcrylic Wonder bead, light blue
Green lined transparentPurple SuperduosCapri blue matte druksDark aqua Czech round faceted crystal
TOHO gold, and Clear ABClear AB SuperduosGreen Adventurine, roundGreen Adventurine, round
Dyna-Mites rainbow clear light blue, and TOHO silverTransparent pearl lavender twin beadsLight Blue AB bicone crystalsLight Blue AB bicone crystal

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FREE beading pattern: Wire Loop Cross
FREE beading pattern: Wire Loop Cross

FREE beading pattern for Wire Loop Cross

July 5, 2017 / / 19 Comments

This wire loop cross pendant and necklace is made as a single interconnected piece, and looks fabulous as a short necklace.  It is made using bead stringing wire (0.015in, 0.38mm), crimp beads (6), 11/0 seed beads, 4mm and 6mm round beads, and 4 Superduo beads for the center of the cross.  Instead of transcribing this pattern as a diagram, I decided to create more of a picture tutorial in hopes it would be easier to follow.  This piece can be made fairly quickly, so I was able to make many of them to experiment with different color combinations.  You can use crimping pliers to crimp the beads at steps 7, 8, and 11, but I found just pinching the crimps flat with needle-nose pliers worked just as well, and was easier to do.  I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!

FREE beading pattern: Wire Loop Cross
FREE beading pattern: Wire Loop Cross

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The following photos demonstrate how to make this piece, step by step.

Wire Loop Cross: steps 1 and 2
Wire Loop Cross: steps 1 and 2
Wire Loop Cross: step 3
Wire Loop Cross: step 3
Wire Loop Cross: step 4
Wire Loop Cross: step 4
Wire Loop Cross: step 5
Wire Loop Cross: step 5
Wire Loop Cross: step 6
Wire Loop Cross: step 6
Wire Loop Cross: step 7
Wire Loop Cross: step 7
Wire Loop Cross: step 8
Wire Loop Cross: step 8
Wire Loop Cross: step 9
Wire Loop Cross: step 9
Wire Loop Cross: step 10
Wire Loop Cross: step 10
Wire Loop Cross: step 11
Wire Loop Cross: step 11


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FREE beading pattern: Tudor Cross Pendant
FREE beading pattern: Tudor Cross Pendant

FREE beading pattern for Tudor Cross Pendant

January 31, 2017 / / 3 Comments
FREE beading pattern: Tudor Cross Pendant

I really love how this pendant turned out!  It comes in two flavors: Diamond-shaped and Cross-shaped.  When experimenting with different color combinations, I found that a higher-contrast seed bead color accentuated the outline of the cross-shape better.   I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!

Materials

Both Diamond-shaped and Cross-shaped versions of this pendant require Superduos, 4mm and 6mm round beads or pearls, and 11/0 seed beads. Between the smaller Czech 11/0 seed beads and larger TOHO 11/0 seed beads, I found the smaller Czech ones worked slightly better.  However, larger TOHO beads still worked in this pattern (see the dark copper/olive and bronze/red examples below). Those examples with TOHO seed bead were made with natural stone 4mm/6mm round beads, which tend to be on the larger side of 4mm/6mm.

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Video tutorial: Tudor Cross Pendant

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