I decided to make use of the stacks of seed beads that I had lying in my bead box on Friday, so I looked up some things and came across this tutorial on how to make a seed bead flower. It was fairly easy to understand and make. The only difficult part was dropping the …
Month: Jan 2013
Chunky blue pearl bracelet
This bracelet is one of the loveliest things I've ever made. It's really eye-catching and is sure to make a statement. It's also fairly heavy, haha. I basically made the bracelet by tying up the curb chain with elastic, then filling up the spaces with all sorts of beads. I chose to use a pack …
Helmsweave chainmaille bracelet
This is my first attempt at chainmaille. I found this helmsweave pattern online, along with many other free patterns. I used both silver and brass wire to highlight the patterns. And I wanted to use up the rest of my silver coil of wire, so here's the end product! There are three types of rings …
Summary of year 2012
Sorry guys, very long post incoming! But I couldn't think of any way to shorten it without missing important info. Worth the read, I promise! Anyway, I might have only had a WordPress blog for a few days, but I'm been making stuff for over a year now. To further my introduction and to show …
Starstone pendant
My latest pendant, a starstone wrapped in brass wire. They call starstone 'The stone of Ambition'. It glitters so much when you move it. The lady who I bought it from said that people would use it to make wishes as it looked like the night sky in a stone. It has such a weird …
Who am I?
The very first Atelier Ilyere blog post.