Thursday, November 12, 2015

New Tutorial - Cellini Flowers and Leaves Beaded with Peyote Stitch

I'm pretty excited about my newest tutorial, Cellini Flowers and Leaves.  With these instructions, you can learn to make earrings and a pendant with sparkling leaves and flowers. Cellini Flowers and Leaves are my original variations on beaded Cellini spiral, combining peyote and herringbone stitches.
Cellini Stitch Spiral
Beading leaves is fast, fun, and easier than it looks. After you master leaves in two sizes, try a flower and a branch, and assemble everything into a cascading corsage pendant. Then bead earrings. And if you still want more, try the large flower beaded bead shown below. Aside from an 8 mm round bead in the small flower, everything is stitched with regular Japanese seed beads, using only a gram or two of each color. So if you collect seed beads, you probably already have everything you need. There's no need to buy more beads; just get right to beading!

Cellini Stitch Spiral
This project is suitable for advanced beginning beaders who want to learn more about peyote and herringbone stitches. For you designer types, the pattern ends with drawings to inspire you to create your own beaded jewelry compositions with Cellini Flowers and Leaves. With so many different designs in one pattern, you could combine the techniques to make your own designs for pendants, bracelets and elaborate necklaces.

Cellini Flowers and Leaves is my third tutorial using the Cellini beading technique, and it won't be the last! The first was Slugs in Love. This is a new Slugfest kit with matching earrings that I assembled. 
Slugs in Love
 I still have a couple kits left before they are all sold out.
Slugs in Love
The second was Snail Shells and Twisty Bits. With this tutorial, you can make a bangle bracelet like this.
Cellini Spiral Stitch
You can also make necklaces and doughnuts like these...
Cellini Beaded Spiral
... as well as pendants in various sizes, like these.
Cellini Spiral Peyote Stitch
And this example shows how Twisty Bits work seamlessly with classic tubular Cellini spiral stitch.
Cellini Spiral Peyote Stitch
As always, thanks for looking.

2 comments:

  1. Beautiful work! What a neat way to make beaded leaves and flowers too :)

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  2. Those are really pretty and I love the colors. My brightly colored pieces always get a lot more attention than my favorite more subdued colors.

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