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How to make frills and ruffles using methods 1 and 2 Tassel with frills coiling around bead-covered balls and tiny flowers at the bottom of the fringe Ann Mockford . Most of the netting done in this book will be worked horizontally, to hold its shape well for tassel skirts. A net. with its distinct diamond pattern, is usually stitched using an odd number of beads with a central, or spot, bead of a different color. However, netting worked using an even number of beads is fine, counting the two...
Ann Mockford Beading
The stages of covering a bugle with beads. This chain was first made by Ann Mockford and is based on one she saw in Malacca. Malaysia, but the original had loops instead of the beaded picots. The picots are worked as you go along, forcing the string into a zigzag. It looks better with the ends looped together, but if you wish to use it and want it to hang straight, don't put a heavy bead on the bottom of the string. It will weight down the chain too much This chain should be bouncy. You can use...
Tassel Necks
Most tassels have a neck Sometimes that is all they do have, no head and no skirt either. Beaded tassel necks are often tubes, made either as a flat piece of beading stitched into a cylinder or tubular beading worked on a supporting rod These cylinders and tubes are supported by having hanks of yarn pulled through them, fitting very tightly so you often don't need to wrap the neck with another yarn. Beads are so beautiful that a cylinder of plain beading is often all you want, but you can mix...
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Tiny bag with an outer layer ol netting over a brick stitch base and buried bugle fringe. Netted bag made using the righthand pattern on page 70. Ann Mockford Vertical netting using 5 times 7 beads. Start at the top arrow and work downward, then work back up, joining the second row to the first one at intervals. Many times you will need to join beading into a tube to make tiny beads or necks for tassels. The first two methods are slightly different for brick or peyote stitch, but are invisible...
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Peyote stitch can be used to make cords, and this is probably the only time when I find it really worthwhile to use odd-count peyote. which continues around the cord in a spiral. Tubular odd-count peyote can be used to make a cord without anything inside it or to cover a ready-made cord. The slight bump at the top and bottom, due to using odd-count peyote. hardly shows on a cord. Any beads can be used to make these cords seeds, cylinders, or cuts and they can be any size, although smaller beads...
Peyote Frills And Ruffles
The peyote stitch is the best stitch to make frills and ruffles, either on necks, or over beaded balls or molds, or to make the tiny flowers or cups given in the trimmings section, on page 109. There are two methods shown here, the first gradually increasing to make a frill and the second having a steeper increase to make a ruffle. Add two beads between each bead on the previous row, and then work two rows adding only one bead between each bead If you wish to make the frill deeper, add two...
Added Finish
An extra finish is often added to beads These fall into the following groups v Iris. AB Aurora Borealis or iridescent coated with metal salts that are burned off These beads resemble an oil slick or a rainbow different colors together on each bead, v Luster a vari-colored finish on any type of bead. v Pearl used to describe luster beads, v Matte or frosted velvety beads that are dipped in acid or tumbled to give them a completely matte surface. They can be single- or multi-colored and are...
Basic Bead Finishes
You'll find that most small beads will fall into the following groups v Transparent clear colors that allow the light to shine through. These have a wider range of color, so are easier to blend from one shade to another. Since contrast between large and small, shiny, transparent and matte beads and wooden beads covered with fine thread. contrast between large and small, shiny, transparent and matte beads and wooden beads covered with fine thread. A variety of surface finishes available today...