more jewelry

Top uses peanut beads and botom uses Superduo

herringbone original designs

schnitzel with onions

I ate this dish or something very like it last week at a little cafe. Very simple dish and tasty.Fry a small onion in oil for a fairly long time, Add one chicken schnitzel which was pounded thin. Slice it into slices lengthwise and fry with the onion. Add salt a nd pepper to taste. Can serve with rice or potatoes.

two bracelets

Top is Antonia from Roberti. Bottom is Embellished diagonal peyote bracelet from The Bead lady

Russian leaf

This is the pattern from Ellad. uses Delicas.

spiral necklace

herringbone and peyote cube beads

getting rid of the little 1.5mm cube beads

small cube beads

from Jaycee

getting back to beading

SEveral months with no beading means my fingers have lost their capability. So now I  can bead again and I'm starting by trying to bead easier projects such as cube beads. I have several nice patterns I've downloaded from Carole Ohl and Deb Roberti so these are the ones I'm working on. I also am thinking that I have to use up my cube beads now as there don't seem to be a ny patterns coming out for them. Instead we're getting Tila beads and other two hole beads. But eventually I want to start using my Delica beads and make some bracelets which I've made before and then into the bead boxes by Julia Pretl.
   The reasons I wasn't beading are a few. Mainly though I want to bead in direct sunlight and since November, I've had to keep all my shutters closed as they are renovating the building outside. But finally they opened them up for me. The other reason was traveling and I just didn't have the r ight light there. I saw my optometrist and my eye dr and there's nothing wrong with my eyes. So now the main problem is to get my fingers more flexible.

making jewelry

AS Inishmaan

This is an Aran saddle shoulder pullover from Fishermen knits by A Starmore. The patterns are all on the multiple of 4 rows so it is an easy one to memorize. The yarn is Rowan Magpie, a great aran yarn. This picture is of the back. The ribbing has a mistake and for the small size should be to cast on 118 sts instead of 122. Rest is f ine.

Let it shine bracelet by Ellad

One of the Ella d bracelets. I would like to change the white beads next time around. It was a bit difficult to make but second time should be a breeze.

thin tila bead bracelet

This is a Tila bead thin bracelet that I couldn't find any instructions for. Batya, a local instructor, showed me how to make it and said one of her students had learned it in a class or store locally. It turns out to be very quick a nd fun to make. I used 25 tila beads for the base. To begin take a seed bead size 11 and then one Tila bead and repeat until you have the right length minus the clasp. then you return to the other hole on the Tila bead and go back working the same size 11 beads in between the Tila beads. That is the bottom of the bracelet. the second or top layer consists of 4 size 15 beads and one crystal size 4. You begin by taking one size 15 and going into one of the 11 beads on the bottom. then pick up another size 15 bead and into the crystal. Pick up another size 15 and  Go into the bottom 11 bead and repeat all the length on the same side of the bracelet. At the end, return on the other side, now just going into an 11 bead and a crystal but adding a 15 before and after so you will end up with 4 size 15 beads between each crystal. The crystal is only added on the first pass of the top layer. On the return you go into the existing crystal just adding your size 15 beads before and after going into the size 11 from the base. You don't go into the Tila on the top layer at all. Make sure to keep to the same side when you add the size 15s.

new bracelets

Both were Deborah Roberti designs several years ago. I changed the type of beads and thread for the blue white one.

fixed error

I was unhappy with a glaring error in this bracelet but here I have fixed it. Can you spot the place?

Alexandra set from Roberti

This is a pretty set, but it took me over 3 days for the bracelet and a few hours more on the earrings. I might do the earrings again.

Roberti tila bracelet

I'm going to enjoy wearing this one. Pattern from Deborah Roberti. It took 3 days.

magnetic clasp

Hong Kong beadstore

After many trips to Kowlooon to the MTR stop at Cham Shi Po (exit A), I finally got to this bead store which stocks Miyuki and Matsuno beads. They only take cash as do the other stores there. They sell in ounces instead of grams and the prices are t he HK dollar which is about 8 to one US dollar. I felt prices were very good. I found Tila beads that were on the latest catalog list and was told they are the only store plus the main store in Taiwan to get them. But mainly I wanted gold beads and did get them. They speak good English and also stock needles, threads, some English books, etc. 

Moussaka my way

Moussaka.
1 lb ground beef and  1 large onion both fried. Add 1 small eggplant cut up in small pieces, half a red pepper, 2 small cans of t omato sauce, 1/2 cup of white wine, lots of water, salt, pepper and some Italian spice. cook covered on low fire for about one hour.

new brascelet (Jayccee design)

Bracelet design from Jaycee. Uses size 15s 24 karat gold, Swarovski 3mm pink pearls, rice pearls 4x6mm and some size 11 gold beads. 

Earring present

These earrings are for a dear email friend who couldn't find the earrings in red that she wanted so hope she likes these.

Maroon bracelet Ella Des

This is called the Maroon bracelet and is a  pattern available on line from Ella Des. I have also seen a bracelet very similar on a French site with the same name. I really enjoyed making this one and plan on doing it again. Ella des is very talented.

Cha cha bangle

The photo has two bangles with the same beads. The smaller one on the left took several hours to make a nd the larger one over a week. That one was a pattern on Etsy from Debbie von Tronder and the small one was figured out by an Israeli beader called Danni. The stitch is a type of RAW using the new Twin beads.

charity sweaters