It's been a busy year (and it's about to get busier for the next few months!) but I've managed to find time to add two more patterns to my website. Both of these have actually been published in magazines already, but after receiving requests from people asking me to make the patterns available from my website, I have completely rewritten them and added lots of new diagrams and photos. The first pattern is Daisy Chain (originally published in Bead magazine) and as the pictures below show, you can make your little daisies into a variety of finished pieces - from a complex looking necklace or bracelet to a simpler pendant or pair of earrings. All of these finished pieces are surprisingly simple to make and full details are included in the tutorial.
The second pattern is for my English Rose necklace (originally published in Perlen Poesie magazine) and is bit more advanced than Daisy Chain, but again, there are lots of diagrams and photos to help you create the finished piece. The project is to make the necklace shown and the idea is that you make several 'roses' as they are interchangeable, but it would be easy to adapt it to make a bracelet (to save you making several feet of beaded rope!) or you could just make the 'rose' and turn it into a pendant or a brooch.
So the pattern shop is gradually filling up and there are now seven patterns to choose from. I will be adding one more in the next few weeks and then I really MUST start preparing for my workshop in Hamburg as it is coming around frighteningly fast! Bye for now!
