The eagle eyed among you will have noticed that this isn’t exactly running in order – that’s because some of the beaded beads are easier to blog about than others. For example beads 4&5 are photographed, but I need to pull out the references and links needed to give the designers proper credit. Bead 6 is one of mine so less digging needed.
Bead 6 is actually a set of samples which will hopefully evolve into a new tutorial – not quite there yet, as in samples 1 & 2 there’s a size 11 placement which annoys me, and the spikes in sample 3 are rather wobbly. But I will persevere.
Sample 1 was born of beading lots of different beaded beads, and getting one of the possible structures so stuck into my brain that I had to try it in spikes. It uses 12 spikes, woven into a kind of a cube with trios at the corners. At least I think it is – looking at the finished ones I’m no longer sure (best take some step by step photos of sample 4).
Sample 2 uses gumdrops (they are often interchangeable with standard size spikes as they have the same size base – 7mm). It switches to 11s from 15s in some places, but as you can see above still has 11s in the trios and they don’t sit right.
And sample 3 is back to spikes to try and iron out some flaws in 1&2 by just using 15s. Still not right though, the spikes are more wobbly than 1. One more combination left to try I think……..
Anyway, no recipe yet or tips since you can’t try this one at home, but bear with me and it will emerge eventually as a tutorial.
The Indecisive Beader 