Free Tip Friday: Dragon Scale Tassel

Thanks to Bead Table Member, Alley Mori and her great ideas with Dragon Scales!

Here are a few of Alley's lovely tassels! Thanks so much for the inspiration, Alley.

Aren't they fantastic?

I used Alley't tassels as inspiration for these tassel earrings.

Here is the ingredients list for what I used on FTF today:

• Bermuda Blue Dragon Scales
• Emerald Celsian O beads
• Sea Green Picasso Drops
• Jet Chrome 2/0 Matubo
• Picasso Opaque Cobalt 11-4518
• Matte Opaque Cobalt Luster 8-2075
• Dyed Silver Lined Denim 6-4276
• Smoke Green KO
• Size 10 Beading Needles
• Sweetheart Earwires

Free Tip Friday: Tassel and Leather Lariat Necklace

Hey Gang!

We had such fun in #FTF today... I am really enamored of the resulting necklace, thanks to the inspiration of customer Susanne from Finland.

This lariat is a "mash up" of two projects... the simple tassel that I created on Free Tip Friday on 11.6.17 and Janice's Boho Beauty Leather Choker Necklace.

As promised, here is a list of the products I used in the Tassel Lariat:
Distressed Violet 1.5mm Leather
Distressed Violet 1.0mm Leather
Pinwheel- Purple Serpentine
Russet Sands
Circle of Bronze
.05mm Chinese Knotting Cord Deep Plum , Grey, Light Iris.
C-Lon Fine Grape, Orchid.

Check out the rebroadcasts below for all the learning you need to start creating! Enjoy!

Tassel Jewelry Ideas

Awakening & Protection Earrings by Kate Richbourg

Tassels are a fun way to add movement and texture to a jewelry design, and they also offer some fast alternatives if you are looking for quick jewelry projects to make. Earrings, especially, are a way to allow you to add some beads or other components with a tassel or two and whip up some statement pieces you can make today and wear today as well.

The 35mm tassels available from beadshop come in sets of six and are pre-strung on a mother cord to help keep them intact. A tiny amount of GS Hypo Cement added to the threads wrapped around the loop holding the strands of the tassel together are also helpful in keeping the tassel's integrity before you begin to work with it. When handling these tassels, it is a good idea to have your project read for the tassels before taking them off the mother cord; otherwise, the loops at the top of the tassels can lose their shape. 

Kate Richbourg has developed new earring projects called Awakening & Protection Earrings that incorporates tassels and ornately carved components from beadshop’s collection of vintage finds. You can download the free pdf project and easily order necessary supplies using the ingredients list on the same page. The downloadable instructions include step-by-step photographs as well as how-to instructions. 

Enjoy makings making some long and dramatic tassel earrings you can make in just a few minutes!

Jewelry Making Tutorials and Throwback Thursday

What was on our bead board a few summers ago? It is fun to take a look back and see what was popular. Yellows in interesting shades of mustard were trending, and chain was also on the bead agenda. Here are a few jewelry tutorials beadshop posted in 2014 that you can still enjoy today:

• Autumn Inspired Bollywood Bracelets
• Chain Tassel Earrings
• Across Cultures Bracelet