{"id":4907,"date":"2013-11-22T19:10:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/?p=4907"},"modified":"2013-11-22T19:10:41","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T00:10:41","slug":"beading-intermission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/2013\/11\/beading-intermission\/","title":{"rendered":"Beading Intermission"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was waiting to hear from my first sample-testing-mama about the wrap, I decided I’d make a beaded ornament. I haven’t made any since last year, and then I didn’t have time to make any real fancy ones. I like to have them for the December Roycroft show.<\/p>\n

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While there are similarities for sure, I design each of the ornaments individually. I’m pretty much forced to, since beads aren’t all exactly the same size – at least my beads aren’t. So the number of beads that is just right when using bead A is different from the number of bead B. <\/p>\n

Getting step 1 done – to the black arrow – wasn’t too bad. I just had to figure out how many beads would go around the top, then how many to make it to the middle of the glass ball, making sure I had the number of hanging ‘strips’ that would work out for step 2. <\/p>\n

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Step 2 – to the blue curve – is standard beaded netting. All I had to do was figure out how many beads I needed in each section to hang down to the length that made sense to me. I did a 1-2-3-2 pattern, so the end was scalloped, with 1 being the shortest and 3 the longest. <\/p>\n

Now for the last section, step 3, the part that would make the ornament special. I tried at least six different arrangements before I found one that I liked. That means string beads for at least one whole section (1-2-3) then take them out. Try a different pattern: string beads take out. Repeat at least four more times.<\/p>\n

That’s why when people ask me how long it takes me to make an ornament I honestly have no idea. If I kept track of the time I’d have to charge a ton of money for each ornament, so I don’t keep track. Ya gotta love making these or there’s no point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While I was waiting to hear from my first sample-testing-mama about the wrap, I decided I’d make a beaded ornament. I haven’t made any since last year, and then I didn’t have time to make any real fancy ones. I like to have them for the December Roycroft show.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

While there are similarities for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[272],"class_list":["post-4907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jewelry-healing-gemstones","tag-victorian-ornament","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4907"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4912,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4907\/revisions\/4912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secondwindjewelry.com\/jewelry-weaving-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}