Third House - Blog Posts
After two rounds of ordering many many tiny 8g viles of number 11 wisteria lined crystal toho sead beads, I gave up and looked for bulk.
So for about $77 or about 15.5 cents a gram,
I am now the proud owner if half a kilo of these beeds
Behold! The riches of the third house!
And please ignore the state of my rug
I now have a problem. As you may have noticed the 9x9 alternating direction diagonal lines squares create a very pretty wave pattern. But my original plan was to do a checker board pattern. I started it and imidiatly things started warping.
I now have to decide if I want to do stripes instead. Or if I should undo everything I've done to make a much smaller checkerboard.
The one benefit of the second option is that I think that the 20gm of old beads I started with were slightly smaller than the new beads I ordered so the lengths of the two sides are slightly uneven. I may just work on the seventh or six a while while I contemplate this
This is the start of my third house "necklace"
Its technically going to be a triangular scarf mare than a traditional necklace. I wanted the most extra thing possible and since cloath of gold was outside the brief, I settled on cloath of glass.
It also sort of reminds me of ancient Egyptian bead garments.
It's really southing to make
Sadly I ran out of beads. Luckily they are relatively cheap seed beads but it will be days till more arive.
Finished my first row of this project. It's about a yard long. I need to figure out where to buy size 11 wisteria lined crystal beads in bulk. Because 100 grams isn't going to get me more than a few rows deep. I'll try to post a picture buts about 3 feet long
This is the start of my third house "necklace"
Its technically going to be a triangular scarf mare than a traditional necklace. I wanted the most extra thing possible and since cloath of gold was outside the brief, I settled on cloath of glass.
It also sort of reminds me of ancient Egyptian bead garments.
It's really southing to make
Sadly I ran out of beads. Luckily they are relatively cheap seed beads but it will be days till more arive.
This is the start of my third house "necklace"
Its technically going to be a triangular scarf mare than a traditional necklace. I wanted the most extra thing possible and since cloath of gold was outside the brief, I settled on cloath of glass.
It also sort of reminds me of ancient Egyptian bead garments.
It's really southing to make
Sadly I ran out of beads. Luckily they are relatively cheap seed beads but it will be days till more arive.