Float Away Today on Facebook Live

Well, it's almost 10:30am Pacific Time on Wednesday, September 26, 2018 and Kate and Emily are going live with a favorite project. Today's sample is part of our Float Away Series. It uses many of Emily's favorite colors and is knotted on Size 6 Griffin Silk. What a treat!

Emily's Float

For those who love cooler colors (especially blues!), we have an alternate colorway that we'll be making live today. 

We're calling this blue and silver beauty, "Lovely Emily"...with her lovely blue eyes and gorgeous, silver hair.

Sample Ingredients used:

2 Strands of 6mm Blue Calico

2 Packages of Size 6 Griffin in Dark Blue

1 Tube Size 6/0 Seed Beads in Dyed Silver Lined Blue Zircon 6-1425

1 Strand Little Shadows in Silver

1 Humble Lotus Button in Antique Silver

1 Pair Old School Thread Snips

After Facebook Live, we will publish the project. Thanks for your patience. Happy beading!

The Best of FB Live...Laddering and Infinity Stitch

It's Wednesday, and Miss Kate is on vacation! I hope she's relaxing, doesn't she deserve it?

As you know, we took a break with our FB Lives and had been re-posting some oldies-but-goodies instead, along with our usual special sale and some new ideas for the project. So, here's one more "Best of" blog to get us through Kate's vacation week!

So let's take a peek back at what beadshop.com is known for: Laddering!  You can ladder with just about anything, but we like to keep it simple with Tricks to Laddering. My mother always told me to use "the KISS method" when designing and crafting...have you heard of it? With a sly smile she'd say "K-I-S-S...Keep It Simple, Stupid!" It always cracks me up! But, it really is good advice...there is a real beauty to simplicity.
Happy beading!

Personally, I like to use KO thread doubled and Infinity Stitch when I ladder. I also decided to add a briolette instead of a charm, because I just love briolettes and can't get enough!


HAZELNUT

1 Button Eyes- Copper
1 Spool KO Thread Natural
1 Pkg 1.5mm Metallic Pyrite Indian Leather
1 Strand 6mm Fossil Coral Rounds
1 Strand 4mm Fossil Coral Rounds
1 Strand 4mm Jet Bronze Picasso
1 Pyrite Briolette and 26G Vintage Bronze ParaWire


BUMBLEBEE

1 Organic Bee Button- Antique Silver
1 Spool KO Thread- Dark Grey
1 Pkg 1.5mm Surfer Cord- Gray
1 Strand 6mm Labradorite
1 Strand Shadows-Silver Plate
1 Strand 4mm Jonquil
1 Lemon Quartz Briolette and 26G Titanium ParaWire

Free Tip Friday: More Ideas with Double Drill Beads

Hey Gang!

Thanks so much for watching, it was a fun hour of creativity using Janice's sample as inspiration.

Double drill beads have so much potential, including using them with wirework. Here are the ingredients lists for all of the products I used in the video.

1 strand Matte Porcelain Jasper Double Drill

2 Antique Silver Triangle Baule beads

1-2 packages Happy Donuts Pewter

Mardi Gras Button Silver

.5 mm Natural Leather Cord

ParaWire Non-Tarnish Titanium- 20G

Nutmeg Regular CLon

1 Strand Dyed Aqua Impression Jasper Double Drill

1mm Metallic Teal Leather

1 Pkg Gold Tierra Heishi

Mardi Gras Gold Button Gold

Be Still Charm Gold

Triangle Flag Baule Bead Gold

Hammered Oval Link Gold

Cerulean Regular C-Lon

Joy Ear Wires Vermeil

ParaWire Non-Tarnish Gold- 24G Round

Enjoy and I can't wait to see what you create!

Evening Time... a lovely counterpoint to Tea Time

Today is our first day back doing Facebook after a month-long hiatus. Kate is sharing a new bead from Dakota Stones: the Double Drilled. These are just so gorgeous!
We'll tell you all about them on the air today, but right now we want to share with you the new color palette that Kate picked out last minute, in case you want to go with this one. It's called Evening Time and it's intended to be a nice balance to Tea Time. This take is done with the Czech glass carrier bead. Isn't it fun?

Kate used:

2 Strands of 6mm Matte Aventurine
1 Strand of Matte Double Drill 
1 Strand 4mm Polychrome Aqua Teal
1 Strand 5mm Mustard Rondelles
1 Strand 10mm Green Turquoise Picasso English Cuts
1 Strand 3mm Ultra Luster Opaque Green Melons
1 Tube 8-4213F Galvanized Dark Mauve Matte
1 Antique Copper 2 Loop Vertical Cleo Clasp
1 Pkg Antique Copper Tierra Heishi

We'll be sure to post photos after the show, along with tools and stringing supplies you need. But for now, let's watch the show!