African Queen

The tutorial by Jimmy Boatright was in the Bead & Button Magazine from February 2017.

It is easy to follow the pattern but the mentioned amount for the main colour is not correct.

Constellation Pendant

By Cathy Andrews, you can find the tutorial in Beadwork-Magazine December 2017. My ladies here call it a “Fish”, for me it is more a medal.

The pendant is now waiting for its crochet rope.

Crochet Ropes

After a long time, I decided to crochet again. Both patterns can be found Pinterest.

The necklaces are made with seed beads 15°.

Rose of Sharon

This brooch was also designed for the world tour.

It is made in Herringbone-technique, which needs a bit of patience but during those days at sea, time was not a problem.

Beadcroching

Finally the tutorials for the beaded sphere "World" and "Cat and Mouse" are printed.

They are now available in our etsy-shop.

Set "Aroha"

Finally, it is time to follow up on my last cruise.

I had the opportunity to accompany the “AIDAcara“ on a part of its world tour. My part brought me from San Antonio in Chile over the Easter Island, Tahiti, Bora Bora and New Zeeland to Sydney. If you take a look at the route, you will see, that we passed a lot of time at sea.

Therefore, I prepared a lot of projects, some needing a lot of time like the “Double Oglala”.

One of the special projects is the set “Aroha“. The name is a word of the Maori and means “Love“.

Because we were travelling shortly before Christmas, I thought, that something sparkling was the right idea. So, I bezeled Rivolis of different sizes with peanut-beads.

Sadly, my design was not as liked as I thought. They liked the earrings and the chain of the necklace but not the pendant. 

Petite Couronne Pendant

It doesn’t happen very often now, but when I opened the last issue of Beadwork-Magazine and saw this pendant, I knew, I had to bead it.

Once again it’s a brilliant pattern by Alice Coelho.

Anniversary

It has been 10 years ago that I wrote my first tutorial for a contest. I want to celebrate this by sending my booklets from my etsy-shop without shipping costs until the 15^th of November 2017.

Tutorial "Aladdin´s Lamp"

Now this booklet is finished too. You can purchase it in our etsy-shop.
https://www.etsy.com/shop/pajaroandson

Mildred´s Cross

These instructions by Beading4perfectionists were a birthday present from a friend. Therefore we had to try it together.

I did not like the colours of the example so I chose my own colours. Here is the result:

The instructions contain 13 pages with many photographs. Unfortunately, you first have the descriptions of four photographs and beneath that those four photographs in one row, which is  a bit confusing. When you know, what you are doing, it is manageable.

Although every step is explained, there are some mistakes in the instructions. The most important is the last element of the cross.

I also changed the beginning of the Herringbone-strap because my start looks neater.

However, I find the design of this pendant ingenious. By now I wear it on a long crochet rope.

Necklace "Rollercoaster"

This necklace by Vera Baumeister was published in “Perlenpoesie” n° 32.

It has an extraordinary design, so I had to try it.

I started with the first repeating pattern following the instructions to the letter. But I noticed that I did not like it this way. I do not like these seesaws and I could see the thread on the edges between the picots in step 6.

So I decided to bead it my way. That means, I secured the three seed beads of the picots in one step above and below before starting the next element. I also connected the RAW-parts directly to the corresponding basic-element. This way I built up the necklace reducing the back-weaving to a minimum.

The necklace is very lightweight. You have to place it very carefully but then it keeps it place.

Addition: Wearing the necklace a bit longer, the semicircle parts fold to the centerline, which doesn`t look not very nice

Tutorial "Basket Bangle"

Another booklet is finished. You can purchase it in our etsy-shop.

Tutorial Set "Leyla"

Now also this booklet is finished. You can purchase it in our etsy-shop.

Noor Pendant

This pendant by Riana Olckers has been on my to-do list for a long time. Finally I did it.

Unfortunately the picture does not show the real brightness of the used colours.

For some steps I had to change the sizes of the beads, because with the ones mentioned in the pattern there was to much thread still visible.

Easter bunny

The last project of this trip is a little pendant with the shape of a Easter bunny.

Aladdin’s Lamp

Arabia, these also are the Fairy Tales of Thousand and One Night. Along these lines I have designed this pendant.

Aladdin’s Lamp looks especially beautiful when a Rivoli with a strong colour is used.

Leyla - the necklace

To complete the set I needed a matching necklace. It was made after the trip and in a new colour combination.

Leyla – Ring and earrings

To the set „Leyla“ also belong a ring and matching earrings.

Leyla - the bracelet

My last trip started in Dubai. So I needed some projects with oriental touch.  Now I want to show them here.

"Leyla" means: beautiful, like the night. This is the bracelet:

Soon the tutorial for the entire set is available in my etsy-shop.

Muscat I

Another long-term-project is finished.

Two years ago my husband bought me this beautiful labradorite in Muscat. It needs a suitable frame, which it got with this crochet necklace.