Finally!!!

Finally finished the green herringbone bracelet a couple of days ago. Been so busy with the office but I'm happy I was able to make some time for beading again.

Here it is.

Herringbone progress!

Finally some progress! 48 inches of Fireline got me about one and a half inches of the Herringbone Highway bracelet. And around an hour of leisurely beading. Not bad at all. :)

Been so busy the past few weeks and when I get home I'm usually too tired to start beading because I just want to sleep. Hopefully I can work on this bracelet an inch at a time somehow! :)

Herringbone Highway

This is a pattern from the December 2011 Issue of Bead and Button magazine. It's called Herringbone Highway designed by Aryd'ell Hotelling.

In my variation I made only one "lane" instead of the two called for in the pattern. I also used materials I had available.

I'm using 5mm faceted Carnelian round beads with 5mm freshwater pearls for the center of the "highway".

I don't have size 6 seed beads so I used size 8s but strung a 15/o before and after it to fill up the gap.

I used an 8mm round red agate for the toggle.

The finished bracelet.

Phantom Quartz Ring finished

Finished the Phantom Quartz ring, used flat herringbone for the ring band for a change.

Pearl Orbit part 4

Continuing the Pearl Orbit bracelet and was able to connect five of the pearl axis rings. It's starting to take shape now.

Stitching the connectors was kinda tricky. The 4mm pearls got in the way a lot and you need to really look closely to see where you're at or else you could get lost. And while you're adding these pearls you have to maintain the herringbone form.

The next step would be to add the small pearl clusters to each end of the bracelet.

Seeing how it drapes across my wrist. I think it looks quite nice.