Bridey's Beads - Patterns

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I also have a page of Vintage Beadwork Patterns.....

LOOMWORK

Snake belt Original created June 1984 Length: approx. 27" 11 beads wide Czech size 11 transparent luster 2-cuts COLORS: Dark red, brown, bittersweet, amber No picture of finished belt available,sorry.	B094A1Snake belt Originally created July 1984 15 beads wide Czech size 11 transparent luster 2-cuts COLORS: Green, dark green, brown, amber and burgundy
H155A1 "Kissing Lizards" hatband Created July 1984 11 rows wide, rotate pattern so lizards "kiss"! Size 13/0 3-cuts and vintage French steel cuts COLORS: Black, bronze, green luster, silver, and burgundy	H008A1 "Hearts" Hatband Created February 1983 Porcupine quills separating 7 sections of beadwork (string the quills on your warp threads before you start beading) Size 13/0 3-cut beads COLORS: White ceylon, bronze iris, dark red, light red

"Waves" belt pattern, 1984 (repeating, 6 extra rows shown)

"Ocean Scene" Belt

Created December 1983
2-1/2" wide - 52 beads wide (make a loom-- 2 combs at the end of a long board)
Size 13/0 beads
COLORS:
Czech 3-cuts: Blue iris, green luster, amber luster, bronze iris
Vintage beads: White satin cuts, wine red younie seeds, red whitehearts
This belt would be gorgeous done in some of the colors available today-- maybe 15/0 Japanese beads
Click on the picture for the full-sized pattern - 4 overlapping sections scanned from my original chart
Designs adapted from *Baroque Charted Designs for Needlework*, Johan Sibmacher, Dover Publications

EARRINGS

I rarely used a pattern for my earrings, and most of them used hard-to-obtain vintage micro needle bugles-- 21mm in length and tiny in diameter. But here's an earring pattern that is fast, easy, and uses fairly common beads:

BRIDEY'S VICTORIAN STYLE EARRINGS
Pattern for "Victorian style" beaded earrings, 1983	MATERIALS LIST Vintage beads needed: GREEN IRIS BEADS 18 - #5 bugles 18 - #3 bugles 12/0 3-cuts PURPLE IRIS BEADS #5 bugles FRENCH BRASS BEADS 62 - about size 12 (or substitute gold-wash 3-cuts) Beads in the diamonds range from rose to wine red and are size 12/0 seed beads. 4 shades of whitehearts are ideal if you can find them. Bead the 9 green bugles first, then the dangles through each. Peyote stitch the tops last from the bottom up. Designed 1983 Copyright Bridey's Beads	One variant of this earring in blue iris... sorry such a poor image! Another variant of this earring using gold washed bugles. Ditto on the image.