new free pattern: Little Ditties

Little Ditties! Use size 11 seed beads, SuperDuo beads, any size 3mm beads (round beads, glass pearls, fire-polished beads or size 8 seed beads) and any two-hole beads that have a width of 5-8mm (Czechmates tile or brick beads, 8mm Czech Beadstuds, Rulla beads, Tila beads or another SuperDuo bead) to create as many different bracelets as you want. Bead several for stacking or one really long one that you can wrap round your wrist several times. The variations are endless.

new pattern: Maru Bracelet and Earrings

New pattern for sale: the Maru Bracelet and Earrings pattern, $4.25 at AroundTheBeadingTable.com and Bead-Patterns.com:

 

Use any type 3mm and 4mm beads (round beads, fire-polished beads, glass pearls, bicone crystals, gemstones etc.), SuperDuo beads and size 11/0 seed beads to create this bracelet and matching earrings.

New crystal and SuperDuo bead pattern up: the Flutter Bracelet and Earrings

New pattern for sale: the Flutter Bracelet and Earrings pattern, $5.00 at AroundTheBeadingTable.com and Bead-Patterns.com:

 

Use any type 3mm and 4mm beads (round beads, fire-polished beads, glass pearls, bicone crystals, gemstones etc.), SuperDuo beads and size 11/0 seed beads to create this bracelet and matching earrings.

Chandelier Earrings, now a free pattern!

 

CHANDELIER EARRINGS

(copyright 2009 Deborah Roberti)

Materials:

• 2 yards waxed Nymo or C-Lon thread, size D, or 6 lb. FireLine
  
• Approximately 60 size 11/0 seed beads: Miyuki Bronze 11-0457. Can be purchased online at Charlene's Beads, RedPandaBeads.com and WhimBeads.com.
• 16 size 3mm fire-polished beads: Czech Bronze on Topaz Base. Can be purchased at ShipwreckBeads.com.
• 18 size 4mm bicone crystals: Swarovski Crystal Copper. Can be purchased online at FireMountainGems.com.
• two small (2-4mm) jump rings
• a pair of ear wires, or whichever type of earring finding you prefer

Step 1: Thread your needle with a yard of Fireline.

String a bicone crystal, a seed bead, a fire-polished bead, a seed bead, a bicone crystal, a seed bead, a fire-polished bead, a seed bead, a bicone crystal, a seed bead, a fire-polished bead, a seed bead, a bicone crystal, three seed beads, a bicone crystal, a seed bead, a fire-polished bead and a seed bead.
Leaving about a 6-inch tail, tie the beads in a circle with a double knot:


Step 2: Go back around through the beads that you strung in the last step—through the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, the bicone crystal, the three seed beads, the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead and the bicone crystal:


Step 3: Go back up through the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, the bicone crystal and the seed bead:


Step 4: String two seed beads. Go through the jump ring and then go back through the second seed bead that you just strung:


Step 5: String a seed bead. Go all the way back around through the seed bead, the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, and the bicone crystal (all beads highlighted in RED):


Step 6: For extra reinforcement, go back up through the three seed beads, through the jump ring and back down through the three seed beads (all beads highlighted in RED):


Step 7: Go back down through the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead and the bicone crystal (all beads highlighted in RED):


Step 8: String a bicone crystal, a seed bead, a fire-polished bead, three seed beads, a fire-polished bead, a seed bead and a bicone crystal.
Go around and across through the fire-polished bead, across through the seed bead and down through the fire-polished bead highlighted in RED:


Step 9: To make the earring less floppy, go back around through the beads that you added in the last step (the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the three seed beads, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead and the bicone crystal) and then go back across through the bicone crystal that you exited at the end of the last step (all beads highlighted in RED):


Step 10: Go back down through the bicone crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead and the seed bead (all beads highlighted in RED):


Step 11: String three seed beads. Go back up and around through the seed bead, the fire-polished bead, the seed bead and the three bicone crystals highlighted in RED:


Step 12: String a seed bead, a fire-polished bead, a seed bead, a bicone crystal and a seed bead. Go around and down through the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, and the two bicone crystals highlighted in RED:


Step 13: String a seed bead, a fire-polished bead, a seed bead, a bicone crystal and a seed bead. Go around and down through the fire-polished bead, the seed bead and the bicone crystal highlighted in RED:


Weave your way back into the earring, knot and cut your thread. Thread your needle with the tail from Step 1, weave your way into your earring, knot and cut your thread. Attach your earring finding to the jump ring.

New free crystal beaded pattern: Victorian Earrings

VICTORIAN EARRINGS

(copyright 2008 Deborah Roberti)

For the exact beads used in the photo above, click here to go to the RedPandaBeads.com Gallery of Color Suggestions and scroll down.

Materials:

• 2 yards waxed Nymo or C-Lon thread, size D, or 6 lb. FireLine
• About 50 size 11/0 seed beads
• 12 size 4mm fire-polished beads
• 16 size 4mm bicone crystals
• two small (2-4mm) jump rings
• a pair of ear wires, or whichever type of earring finding you prefer



Step 1: Thread your needle with one yard of Nymo, C-Lon or Fireline. String six seed beads. Leaving about a 6-inch tail, tie the beads in a circle with a double knot:


Step 2: Go through the next three seed beads on this circle of six seed beads:


Step 3: String a fire-polished bead, a seed bead, a crystal, a seed bead and a fire-polished bead. Go around and back through the seed bead on the circle of six seed beads that you exited at the end of the last step:


Step 4: Go through the next seed bead on the circle of six seed beads:


Step 5: String a fire-polished bead, a seed bead, a crystal and a seed bead. Go around and across through the fire-polished bead that you added in Step 3 (highlighted in RED), and then through the seed bead on the circle of six seed beads that you exited at the end of the last step (also highlighted in RED):


Step 6: Go through the next seed bead on the circle of six seed beads:


Step 7: String a fire-polished bead, a seed bead, a crystal, a seed bead, a crystal and a seed bead. Go around and up through the fire-polished bead that you added in Step 5 (highlighted in RED), and then through the seed bead on the circle of six seed beads that you exited at the end of the last step (also highlighted in RED):


Step 8: Go back down through the fire-polished bead, the seed bead, the crystal and the seed bead that you added in the last step:


Step 9: String three seed beads. Go around and back through the seed bead that you exited at the end of the last step, forming a picot:


Step 10: Go back up through the crystal, the seed bead, the fire-polished bead and the seed bead on the circle of six seed beads (highlighted in RED):


Step 11: Go through the next seed bead on the circle of six seed beads:


Step 12: String a fire-polished bead, a seed bead, a crystal and a seed bead. Go around and up through the fire-polished bead that you added in Step 7 (highlighted in RED), and then through the seed bead on the circle of six seed beads that you exited at the end of the last step (also highlighted in RED):


Step 13: Go through the next seed bead on the circle of six seed beads:


Step 14: String a fire-polished bead, a seed bead, a crystal and a seed bead. Go around and across through the fire-polished bead highlighted in RED and then through the seed bead on the circle of six seed beads that you exited at the end of the last step (also highlighted in RED):


Step 15: Go through the seed bead on the circle of six seed beads and up through the fire-polished bead (both beads highlighted in RED):


Step 16: String a seed bead, a 4mm crystal and two seed beads. Go through the jump ring and then back through the last seed bead that you just strung:



Step 17: String a seed bead, a 4mm bicone crystal and a seed bead. Go down through the fire-polished bead, across through the seed bead on the circle of six seed beads and up through the fire-polished bead highlighted in RED:


Step 18: Go back around through the beads highlighted in RED and the jump ring again to reinforce your attachment to the jump ring:


Weave your way back into the earring, knot in and cut your thread. Thread your needle with the tail from Step 1, weave your way into the earring, knot and cut your thread. Attach your earring finding to the jump ring.

Snowflake Ornament

Designer Michelle Skobel has made a beautiful ornament cover from my Snowflake Earrings pattern. For a free PDF of the design, click HERE or on the picture below. Michelle has many more beaded ornament and jewelry patterns, both for free and for sale, on her website at www.michelleskobel.com. 

For my free Snowflake Earrings pattern, just click on the picture below.

New matching earring patterns

COIN EARRINGS

$3 at AroundTheBeadingTable.com

This pattern is fully illustrated with detailed step-by-step instructions for three earring designs, plus instructions for one more variation not shown, and matches my Coin Bands pattern.

ANY BEAD EARRINGS

$3 at AroundTheBeadingTable.com

This pattern is fully illustrated with detailed step-by-step instructions for three earring designs, plus instructions for one more variation not shown, and matches my Any Bead Bracelet pattern. As with the bracelet, I call this pattern the "Any Bead Earrings" because you can use any 4mm beads (round beads, druks, glass pearls or gemstones, bicone crystals or fire-polished beads) and any two-hole beads (Twins, SuperDuos, Czechmates, Czechmate Bricks, Rulla or Tila beads) to create many different earrings from just one pattern design. And when you have exhausted all possible combinations, substitute 3mm beads or size 6/0 seed beads for the 4mm beads for even more variations.

New SuperDuo patterns!

Harmony Bands, a three band set, $5.00 at AroundTheBeadingTable.com and Bead-Patterns.com:

Harmony Earrings, with or without drop, $2.25 at AroundTheBeadingTable.com and Bead-Patterns.com:

new free pattern: Snowflake Earrings

Snowflake Earrings—a variation of my Starburst Earrings, fully illustrated with detailed step-by-step instructions and FREE!

FREE pattern using Czech Beadstuds: the Pyramid Band

There's a new bead in town! 

Czech Beadstuds are two-hole, pressed glass beads shaped like pyramids. The larger Beadstuds, used in my free pattern—the Pyramid Band—measure 12mm square and 9mm in height. These beads are heavier and thicker than other Czech two-hole beads and come in some lovely Czech finishes. 

Just click on the picture for step-by-step instructions for the Pyramid Band:

New crystal bead pattern up: the Eliza Bracelet

New pattern for sale, the Eliza Bracelet, $4.00 at AroundTheBeadingTable.com and Bead-Patterns.com:

new pattern up: the Crossroads Bracelet

New pattern for sale, the Crossroads Bracelet, $4.00 at AroundTheBeadingTable.com and Bead-Patterns.com:

Use any 3mm bead (round bead, fire-polished bead, glass pearl, crystal, gemstone, size 8/0 seed bead, etc.) and either Miyuki Tila beads or Czechmates Tile beads to create this bracelet. When you vary the beads, many different bracelets can be created from just this one versatile pattern design.

Now FREE: the Crisscross Bracelet

CRISSCROSS BRACELET

(copyright 2004 Deborah Roberti)

MATERIALS (for a 7-inch bracelet, not including clasp)

• 4 yards waxed Nymo or C-Lon thread, size D, or 6 lb. FireLine

• About 350 size 11/0 seed beads. I used size 11/0 Delica beads: Lt. Gold DB-34. Can be purchased at FireMountainGems.com and WhimBeads.com.

• About 164 size 4mm beads (they can be bicone crystal beads, fire-polished beads, round beads or any size 4mm bead). I used Swarovski Montana AB. Can be purchased online at FireMountainGems.com.

• Clasp



Step 1: Thread your needle with 4 yards Nymo, C-Lon or FireLine (or start with a length that you feel comfortable with and add more later).

String a seed bead, a 4mm bead, a seed bead, a 4mm bead, a seed bead, a 4mm bead, a seed bead and a 4mm bead.

Leaving about a 12-inch tail for attaching the clasp, tie the beads in a circle with a double knot:


Step 2: Go back around through the beads highlighted in RED:


Step 3: String three seed beads. Go around and back down through the seed bead you that exited at the end of the last step (highlighted in RED), forming a circle of four seed beads:


Step 4: Go back around through the 4mm bead, the seed bead, the 4mm bead and the seed bead highlighted in RED:


Step 5: String three seed beads. Go around and back up through the seed bead that you exited at the end of the last step (highlighted in RED), forming another circle of four seed beads:


Step 6: Go through the next two seed beads on the circle of four seed beads that you created in the last step (highlighted in RED):


Step 7: String a 4mm bead, a seed bead, a 4mm bead, a seed bead, a 4mm bead, a seed bead and a 4mm bead. Go around and back down through the seed bead that you exited at the end of the last step (highlighted in RED):

To add some extra strength to your bracelet, go back around through the beads you just added (highlighted in RED):


Step 8: Go back around through the 4mm bead, the seed bead, the 4mm bead and the seed bead that you added in the last step (highlighted in RED):


Step 9: String three seed beads.
Go around and back up through the seed bead that you exited at the end of the last step (highlighted in RED), forming another circle of four seed beads:


Step 10: Go back up through the 4mm bead and the seed bead highlighted in RED:

You’ve just created Row 1 of the bracelet.

Step 11: Flip the bracelet around so that you are working left to right:


Step 12: To begin Row 2, string a 4mm bead, a seed bead, a 4mm bead, a seed bead, a 4mm bead, a seed bead and a 4mm bead. Go around and back across through the seed bead that you exited at the end of the last step (highlighted in RED):

Again, to add some extra strength to your bracelet, go back around through the beads you just added (highlighted in RED):


Step 13: Go back around through the 4mm bead, the seed bead, the 4mm bead, the seed bead, the 4mm bead and the seed bead that you added in the last step (highlighted in RED):


Step 14: String three seed beads. Go around and back down through the seed bead that you exited at the end of the last step (highlighted in RED), forming another circle of four seed beads:


Step 15: Go back around through the 4mm bead, the seed bead, the 4mm bead and the seed bead that you added in Step 12 (highlighted in RED):


Step 16: String three seed beads. Go around and back up through the seed bead that you exited at the end of the last step (highlighted in RED), forming another circle of four seed beads:


Step 17: Go through the next two seed beads on the circle of four seed beads that you created in the last step (highlighted in RED):


Step 18: String a 4mm bead. Go through the seed bead on Row 1 (highlighted in RED):


Step 19: String a 4mm bead, a seed bead, a 4mm bead, a seed bead and a 4mm bead. Go around and down through the seed bead highlighted in RED:


Step 20: Go back around through the 4mm bead, the seed bead, the 4mm bead and the seed bead highlighted in RED:


Step 21: Go back around through the beads (highlighted in RED):


Step 22: String three seed beads. Go around and back up through the seed bead that you exited at the end of the last step (highlighted in RED), forming another circle of four seed beads:


Step 23: Go back up through the 4mm bead and the seed bead highlighted in RED:

You’ve just created Row 2 of the bracelet.

Step 24: Flip the bracelet around so that you are working left to right:


Step 25: Repeat Steps 12 to Step 24 until your bracelet is as long as you want, minus about a half-inch and the length of your clasp.


Step 26: To attach the clasp, string a 4mm bead, a seed bead and a 4mm bead.
Go back down and around through the 4mm bead, the seed bead in the middle circle of four seed beads and up through the 4mm bead highlighted in RED:


Step 27: Continue on up through the top-left 4mm bead and middle seed bead highlighted in RED:



Step 28: String five seed beads, go through one end of the clasp and back around through the seed bead the you exited at the end of the last step (highlighted in RED), forming a ring of seed beads that encircle the clasp:


Go around through this ring of seed beads several times to reinforce the clasp and then weave your way back into the bracelet, knot in several places and cut your thread.

Repeat Steps 26 to 28 to attach the other end of the clasp.

More FREE patterns at AroundTheBeadingTable.com.