A new friend

Last Monday I met Monique from France. She loves the beads as much as I do.
It is almost fantastic, how fast we understood, although we did not know each other. Also our husbands got along right off.

Monique gave me this beautiful present, which I want to show you here:

Boite à secret

Almost I forgot to show my version of the little box.
Thanks, Laure (http://www.creationslaurebijoux.com/), for this wonderful pattern.

Capricho - the necklace

When I saw the instructions for this necklace at www.creationperles.com, I knew, I must have it. Here it is – in my favored color

and here with my newest model:

The base is made with seed beads size 11 and 15 in crystal. Then I used facetted beads 3mm in light sapphire and capri blue and 4mm in capri blue and navy blue. It was a pleasure to bead this necklace. I want to repeat it with other colors.

Cool Spirit

I had the honor to test the new pattern of Brigitte’s necklace “Indian Spirit” http://solidbeads.blogspot.com/
The colors, I choose, are colder, that’s why I called it “Cool Spirit”.

I used Miyuki seed beads 15/0 and Turkish crochet yarn nº 70. The necklace ends in crochet hemispheres, the clasp is a crochet ball of 10 mm and the necklace is 59 cm long.

Cubtrigio

This is my newest necklace. I like to use various parts to combine, here I used crocheted balls.

Gentilli

The forum of http:///www.perlenhaekeln.de celebrated its 7th anniversary. For that reason an e-book with the title “Die Perlenhäklerin” came out. In this story you can find the instructions how to make Gentilli-Spirals. Of course I had to try it too.

The spiral is created by a special crochet technique. I used Matsunos size 11/0 and crochet yarn strength 50 for my necklace.

Geometry

I also crocheted. This time I used a geometric design with 20 beads per round.

I used again my favorite seed beads size 15 but this time I used thread size 50.