Today, we are going to put our new dimensional beading skills to work and make the Sumptuous Square components. For the last few weeks, we have reviewed several methods of cubic right angle weave. We are going to begin by making the base squares and then I will demo two different ways you can use …
Jewelry Techniques
Bead Weaving 101 – Two Needle Cross-weave Technique for RAW and Ladder Stitch
Hello Beaders! Today we are going to revisit the two needle or cross-weave technique. Only instead of Ladder stitch, we are going to apply the technique to Right Angle Weave. Just like it sounds, cross weave technique involves crossing two thread paths through the same bead. Two needles are threaded onto both ends of a …
Bead Weaving 101 – Cubic Right Angle Weave with Pattern Method 3
Welcome back folks. In the last post CRAW Method 2, I ran into a little snag. We we learning to create cubic right angle weave, one cube at at time. Towards the end, I realized that I had not picked the right colors of the beads and the pattern did not come out exactly right. …
Bead Weaving 101 – Herringbone Stitch with Bead Variations
Welcome back to the Herringbone portion of Bead Weaving 101. We have covered a lot of variations of this stitch so far and today I want to talk about adding a variety of different sized and shaped beads into a Herringbone project. The use of different beads in your work, can add design elements such …
Bead Weaving 101 – Cubic Right Angle Weave Method 2
Welcome back to Bead Weaving 101. For the last few weeks, we have been exploring RAW (Right Angle Weave) techniques and variations of this highly versatile stitch. We began our exploration into one of the three dimensional forms of the stitch, CRAW or Cubic Right Angle Weave, with the Basics and made our first cubes. …
Bead Weaving 101 – Cubic Right Angle Weave Method 1
Welcome back to Bead Weaving 101. For the last few weeks, we have been exploring RAW (Right Angle Weave) techniques and variations of this highly versatile stitch. In the last post, we began our exploration into one of the three dimensional forms of the stitch, CRAW or Cubic Right Angle Weave. In that lesson, we …
