Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Playing with my beads...Claire's bracelet pattern samples


My good friend Claire Lee, who owns Supply Emporium on Etsy, is working on her very first bracelet pattern. It's similar to Deborah Roberti's "MiniDuo Bands" but it calls for SuperDuos instead of MiniDuos. There are a few other differences as well. Claire asked me to give her tutorial a test-run so I made some samples in the five colorways below. Claire made the bracelet at the top of this post and also the red and black one at the bottom.

Claire's pattern does not have a name yet and it is not yet available in her shop. She is in the process of working on the diagrams to go along with her tutorial. While you're waiting to buy this pretty pattern, visit Claire's Etsy shop HERE for an amazing array of gorgeous beads as well as bead packs (patterns sold separately) to make lots of popular bracelet patterns by designers from around the world.

This bracelet comes out about 3/4-inch wide and the pattern works best with Toho seed beads. My first sample below has Miyuki beads and it doesn't lay completely flat like the other four samples. I have added links in the supply lists below to beads that are available at Supply Emporium.



I love these Silky beads. They're from Claire's Etsy shop and I haven't seen this color anywhere else. I put a little faux loop on this sample. This is not how the actual button loop will look.






  • 11/0 seed beads Toho "Antique Bronze" (223)
  • Silky beads "Alabaster Red Luster"
  • 3mm fire polished beads "Transparent Pink Topaz Luster"
  • SuperDuo beads "Ruby Luster" (Pink Luster is similar)  
  • SuperDuo beads "Crystal Gold Luster"



  • 11/0 seed beads Toho "Antique Bronze" (223)
  • Silky beads "Alabaster Senegal"
  • 3mm fire polished beads "Opaque Gold and Smoky Topaz Luster"
  • SuperDuo beads "Crystal Gold Luster"
  • SuperDuo beads "Opaque Gold and Smoky Topaz Luster"



  • 11/0 seed beads Toho "Antique Bronze" (223)
  • Silky beads "Alabaster Vega Luster"
  • 3mm fire polished beads "Bronze Illusion"
  • SuperDuo beads "White Terracotta"
  • SuperDuo beads "Crystal Gold Luster"


 

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