AURELIA Chenille Stitch Hollow Bead LARIAT

 AURELIA Chenille Stitch Hollow Bead LARIAT available at 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/694789969/beading-tutorials-and-patterns-beaded

Materials

Seed beads, 2 mm Fire Polished Beads, Toho seed beads, Miyuki seed beads

Description

Aurelia Lariat - Beading PATTERN with full colour graphics, photos and written instructions . Easy to read. A working knowledge of Circular Peyote is required.

TEN pages to print
Length of lariat - 60 cm or as long as you prefer

Video Tutorial

The matching bracelet pattern - Minerva Warrior Bracelet Pattern is available in my Etsy Shop

https://www.etsy.com/shop/RianaOlckersBeadWork

Inspirational Bead Artist for November

It is my great pleasure to introduce Phyllis Dintenfass to you.  What a talented lady! Phyllis sparked my interest in geometrical bead designs.  Thank you for sharing your talent with us.

 Starman TrendSetter for the year (August 2014-1015) Beadsmith Inspiration Squad (October 2015 -   ) 

 Bead weaving, with all its intricacies, has become my creative obsession. While traveling in Africa, Europe, and throughout the United States, I have always looked for examples of beadwork as adornment. I am committed to carrying on those traditions. The endless array of colors, shapes, and sizes of beads allows me to experiment with new techniques and combinations, so that each piece is unique. My jewelry takes into account color, composition and ease of wearing. Beads are a passion I'm lucky to have. 

Biography

I have been designing beaded jewelry for nearly 40 years. After years of stringing “big beads,” I became addicted to working with seed beads when I found out I could thread the tiny eye of a needle.  I'm fascinated with the many off-loom bead weaving techniques.  My work has sold in galleries and to private individuals in this country and abroad.  

I most like to design custom pieces for clients, so I welcome commissioned pieces. If you are interested,Since retiring from a career in education, I have concentrated my efforts on teaching beadwork and designing patterns.

www.phylart.com/phylart

Chenille Flower Bracelet

The Chenille Flower Bracelet Pattern now available at

https://www.etsy.com/listing/451164702/bead-pattern-chenille-stitch-tutorial
This is such a beautiful bracelet with its own clasp.  Yes, the flower is the clasp.
The pattern is written step by step with detailed illustrations, and I have added photos to about every step this time. Even a beginner can create this bracelet!  Twelve pages to print.

Inspirational Beadweaving

Maggie Meister of Amphora Designs  is my September 2016 Inspirational Bead Weave Artist. We all have our own signature style and I found that we tend to lean towards other artists that fit your own style.  Maggie's work speaks to me.  From her choice of color and her style of beading to her love for two drop peyote stitching and the 3D designs. Her deep interest in history is showcased in every design.  Just by reading the description of a piece is a history lesson on its own. I can smell Italy and ancient times gone by, by just looking at her designs.

Maggie's work is regularly  published in various international magazines and she is highly regarded as an artist to be respected.  She teaches all over the world  and her bead inspired tours of Italy, well known.

What I love about Maggie's work is it is functional and wearable.  I personally worked up a few bracelets and they are amazingly beautiful and comfortable to wear. Her interesting use of shaped lines, that no one else ever dared to tackle, makes the designs priceless.  She transforms difficult forms and shapes made with mosaics into a bead design. 

Background   by Maggie

The love of ancient history, color and patterns have followed me throughout my life and my designs have come to fruition during the time my family and I lived in Italy. In looking back, beads have always been a part of my life – from playing with Mardi Gras beads or collecting semi-precious stones as a young girl to my love of ancient and ethnic jewelry as I became older. Today seed beads have become the medium I use to translate my sources of inspiration into personal designs for adornment.

When living in Naples, Italy, I was surrounded by ancient history. The fragments of Roman columns, mosaics and frescoes are my inspiration and I am grateful for those “ancient voices”. Translating these voices into designs fills my days with joy and wonder and I cherish my “connection” with the past. Teaching and beading are ways for me to share this wonderful experience and bring those voices of the past into the present.

Visit her website to get to know this inspirational artist. 

www.mmmbeads.com

 Thank you Maggie, for your valuable contribution towards our craft.

The Rio Tassel Pendant

https://www.etsy.com/listing/457946036/beading-tutorial-the-rio-tassel-pendant

The Rio Tassel Pendant Pattern is available in my Etsy Store.  It is so colorful it will brighten up any day.  Quick and easy to make.

Inspirational Bead Artist

I want to honor one of  my most favorite inspirational bead weaving artists.  Eva Maria Keiser is well known throughout the world for her exceptional designs and use of color in her designs. Her passion to  architect  structural bead work designs, leaves me in awe time and again. The detail added in layering beads makes her designs one of a kind. Bead&Button, Perlen Poesie and Muses magazines are just a few in which her work was published.  

"When I'm not beading...I'm sleeping."
-Eva Maria Keiser

 Eva shares a vast collection of well written tutorials for free.  

Years ago, when I fell in love with the art of seed bead weaving, her work was  and still is today, very inspirational to me. The dedication to the bead world is carried on through her daily inspirational quotes, ideas on the use of color and the artisan tutorials, to introduce us to new and upcoming artists

Eva Maria Keiser, thank you for your unselfish love for beads. You are an amazingly talented  artist

http://keiserdesigns.blogspot.co.za/

New design

Playing around with a new pattern. I decided to work with the bright colored beads. Who needs dull looking projects!

Chenille Bracelet Pattern

Chenille Bracelet Pattern

Basic knowledge of peyote stitch required. This is a tutorial and if you have never done Chenille stitch, now is the time to learn.

Six pages to print. Easy to follow step by step written instructions with full color graphic illustrations and photos

Technique: Chenille stitch

Length: 18.5 cm without clasp

20 cm with clasp

https://www.etsy.com/listing/267628323/tutorial-chenille-bead-weaving-stitch

The next step

20% Discount only for the weekend. Visit my Etsy store and use coupon code:  WINTER20  at the check out

Jabulani Necklace Design Idea

I used the Gertrude Pendant Pattern to create the Jabulani Necklace. Be creative in your thoughts
Available in  my Etsy Store
http://www.etsy.com/shop/RianaOlckersBeadWork

A Journey with seed beads

Square Diamonds Bracelet

This bracelet was part of my Master the Right Angle Weave Stitch Program.  The students 

used the basic pattern and created their own versions. It was a lot of fun, so get out your 

beads and start this easy -to-follow pattern and glam up your wrist. The rustic colors I used 

can be worn with jeans or your little black dress. This is really a versatile bracelet. Play 

around and replace the two hole pearls with the new series of two hole Czech beads now 

available.

Beginner project with four pages to print

https://www.etsy.com/listing/268955374/bead-pattern-right-angle-weave-technique?ref=shop_home_active_1

Ietzy's

The Ietzy pattern is a dainty, hollow 3D beaded component. It can be a pendant, earrings or even become an elegant bracelet.
Dimensions without bail - 2.6 mm/ with bail - 3 mm
Available in my Etsy Shop  now
https://www.etsy.com/listing/228945864/bead-weaving-pendant-pattern-ietzys-bead?ref=shop_home_active_1

Cathedral Windows Bracelet Pattern

New pattern now available at
https://www.etsy.com/listing/227404716/beading-pattern-right-angle-weave-and
or
http://www.craftsy.com/pattern/jewelry/bracelet/beading-pattern-right-angle-weave-and-pe/137312

Lilith Bracelet

Source: Bracelet tutorial - Lilith bracelet pat via Rani's Beadwork on Craftsy

A beautiful bracelet that can be worn with two different styles. Five pages to print. Easy to follow instructions and step by step illustrations and photos.
Available at craftsy.com  ( click on the photo) and
 https://www.etsy.com/shop/RianaOlckersBeadWork

Spring at last

Today is the official date for the beginning of our  South African spring. A beautiful and sunny day - so happy spring is here at last. I am not a winter person at all, and like bears,  I tend to  hibernate during the cold winter months. Now I am awake and the ideas for new designs is flowing freely again.
The 40% discount offer sadly ends tomorrow, do not loose out. I trust you will enjoy making the free pattern and feel free to share with your friends on the social media. The next freebie will be available soon.
Do not forget to show off your Thembimbi Bracelet - I would love to see it! Share on my facebook page (see pattern for details)

Adriana Flower Bracelet

Source: Beading bracelet pattern - Adriana via Rani's Beadwork on Craftsy

Beautiful feminine bracelet, that can be a stunning necklace too! Craw and peyote stitch combined and not difficult at all. Even though the pattern came so easily to me, I struggled for a few days to get the pattern published. At one stage I wanted to name my beautiful Adriana , Satan's daughter,  so frustrated I was with trying to publish the pattern.  First the illustrations that I did, did  not save correctly, then the file gave me that awful " file corrupted" message and in the last few days I rewrote, re illustrate the pattern at least six times. Well, it is now done and  posted  at last. And just for the record -  I was sooo  happy with the first pattern Enjoy

Minerva Warrior Bracelet

Minerva is a step by step beading pattern with full color diagrams and a written beading tutorial. Six pages to print. Czech O beads and Miyuki half tila beads are used. This bracelet is worth the effort and not difficult at all.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/200736228/tutorial-o-beads-half-tila-beads?ref=shop_home_active_1

The patterns

https://www.etsy.com/listing/200022090/tutorial-peyote-stitch-pendant-pdf?ref=shop_home_active_1

Source: Beading pattern - Elizabeth's Pendant via Rani's Beadwork on Craftsy