Sunday, February 2, 2014

Bracelet of the Day: Quick SuperDuo Bracelet

 QUICK SUPERDUO BRACELET
  • 15/0 seed beads “Metallic Chocolate” *
  • 3mm druks “Bronze Antique” **
  • SuperDuo beads “Opaque Green Luster”
* This color is not available anywhere that I know of in this size. Deb Roberti sent them to me in a huge box of seed beads that had no labels on them. Thanks, Deb!
 
** I bought these at Beadoholique. A while back they got in a large assortment of gorgeous druks from Nirvana Beads.

 
My friend, Teejay, came up with this variation of a Beading Daily tutorial called "Quick Bracelet with Two-holed Seed Beads", which we call "Quick SuperDuo Bracelet" for short. Her version is actually more like the motifs in this one called "More Right-angle Weave With Two-holed Seed Beads". You can also connect the motifs with SuperDuo beads instead of druks like Teejay did in this example:
 


Here are the earrings that I'm wearing today with this bracelet:



I made them with Vintaj charms that I bought at Hobby Lobby for about $3.00.
 

 

14 comments:

  1. Just gorgeous! You make such wonderful color choices. Those Vintaj charms are so useful.

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    1. Thanks, Jeanie. I'll see if I can tear myself away from my beads long enough to type up a tutorial one of these days.

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  2. First you do BEAUTIFUL work! I love almost all of your pieces! My question is how can I view your page without the vintage background hiding the words? It starts off visible then the background appears.
    Thanks,
    Chrisi

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    1. Thanks, Chrisi. I don't know what to tell you about the text. It shouldn't be going anywhere near the background. Do you have your computer font size set really large perhaps? I've checked in both Internet Explorer and Firefox and the text is all within the beige area of the page.

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  3. It scrolls over top of the background in only text not the color behind the comments. I dont know . Your work is really nice though. :)

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  4. Linda, could you tell me about the clasp you use here? Is it a specific brand, and can you tell me where you purchase them?

    Thank you,
    Liz

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    1. I bought them in a local shop but they're readily available online. They call them "Trailer Hitch" clasps and they're not expensive. Some are more cheaply made than others so you need to look closely at the photos if you buy them online. The really cheap ones have stamped edges that don't look nicely finished. This type of clasp is nice because you can pretty easily fasten it on yourself with one hand.

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    2. Thanks for sharing this beautiful pattern! I am definitely going to try it out.

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  5. You have a pattern for this one it's beautiful

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    1. As I mentioned above, it's based on this pattern: http://tinyurl.com/qjgmzvm

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  6. very lovely, and I really enjoy your jewelry and hope to be able to learn from your work. Nix on the Hobby Lobby though. I do not shop at places to treat women as children.

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    1. I would ask what you mean by your comment but this really isn't the place for that kind of discussion.

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  7. Unfortunately the link doesn't work

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    1. Thanks for letting me know. They had moved that page. I did a search for that article and found the new link and updated my post. The first article with the bracelet pattern does still work.

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