Puff!
Puff! Puff!
Learn to make your own Puff Beads like the surface of a
doughnut with a tube of seed beads forming the hole. You can easily
string them on a chain or cord like I did for the pink necklace on the cover of the pattern.
Mostly stiff, but a still flexible,
Puffs are beaded beads made with embellished super right angle weave
(E-SRAW). Do you enjoy right angle weave (RAW) and want to learn more?
Before attempting this tutorial, you can learn flat SRAW on my blog for
free at
http://gwenbeads.blogspot.com/2011/02/animated-video-tutorial-on-how-to-weave.html.
Puff Beads are made with
just three sizes of regular Japanese seed beads and beading thread,
making them a great way to use up seed beads leftover from other
projects, and they look great simply strung on cord with a few lampwork glass beads. Materials lists are included for various sizes of seed beads
and embellishments including optional rose montees like I used on the green beaded bead below.
This tutorial shows how to shape SRAW into the surface of a
torus, and embellish the outside. Included are 2 pages on the theory of
shaped SRAW, 12 pages showing step-by-step instructions for the main
design (the torus), and 5 pages showing 4 geometric variations of beaded
beads that are simpler and smaller than the main design. The tutorial
guides you to apply the theory and techniques to make the other designs in several
sizes from 11 mm to the 23 mm Puff Bead.
The tutorial
is a PDF file with 20 pages, including over 120 illustrations and
photographs with lots of writing explaining the pictures. Suitable for
intermediate bead weavers with enough variations to inspire advanced
weavers.
Thanks for looking.
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