Earlier this week I picked up some of the new solo beads from my local beadshop. They are made by the Czech company Preciosa and are a short, blunt dagger shape with the hole at one end. They are the same shape and size as the twin bead, but with one less hole! They come in a lovely range of …
I was surprised, delighted and honoured to find that I had been chosen as Blogger of the Week by Jewellery Maker. I try to post every week, but now I might be encouraged to write far more frequently! Since last appearing on Jewellery Maker I have been recovering and working on tutorials. I have just sent off a tutorial for …
It is easy to make a 2-colour beaded spiral with Round Braid, but it is much trickier to work out how to do it with 4 different colours. There was a question in the Kumihimo Facebook Group about how to do this and although I have done it before and I knew it involved alternating the beads on the cords, …
I have finally finished loading on the free instructions for the designs I showed on Jewellery Maker TV on 14.5.14. I hope this will be useful to people who bought the kit, but I also hope that they will have a wider appeal. The designs are very versatile and can be adapted to accomodate many different sizes and shapes …
I have been very busy working on the instructions for the designs I showed on Jewellery Maker on Wednesday (20.5.14). They can be found here and are intended to be used together with the YouTube video. However, I want to make it really clear that they are very different to the tutorials for sale in the shop, which are extremely detailed, …
For my second full show on Jewellery Maker I demonstrated a couple of wire designs and a new way of using chain in kumihimo. These photos show just a few of the designs I made using two beautiful kits. The show can be seen on YouTube by following this link, Additional bullet point instructions will follow, but I have now …
For those who are interested, I am starting to get the instructions for the jewellery demonstrated on Jewellery Maker added to the site. I have created a new section under the Gemstone Kumihimo tab and have just loaded the instructions for the Magic Mint kit. The others will appear soon, but please be patient as I am working on the …
Yesterday was my first full 4 hour show on Jewellery Maker and it certainly looks as if I had fun! I can’t believe how quickly the time went and it was wonderful to have so many lovely comments sent in to the show. It was also really thrilling for me to see entries to the wall of fame both yesterday …
My television debut yesterday on Jewellery Maker TV went well and I am now looking forward to the next appearance! There was a lot to learn and I found it surprising how busy the studio is and how many cameras and monitors there are to worry about. I was very nervous, but I enjoyed the whole experience. I found that …
This is a glimpse of an ingenius button hole fastening which requires only beads and cords and if all goes well I will be demonstrating the method on Jewellery Maker on Tuesday 6th May between 1 and 2 pm GMT (8 and 9 am EST). This will be my television debut, so watch out for trembling hands and quivering …
