“You use Toho seed beads in your design. Can I bead it with Miyuki seed beads?” – this is one of the most frequently asked questions I get about my patterns.
My answer is sometimes “yes”, sometimes “no”, and it also happens, that the answer is “I don’t know”. And this answer doesn’t depend on my mood, or the beading skills of the questioner. It depends on the beadwork itself, it depends on how much the different sizes of the beads with the same size marking affect the final result.
It is possible that you already know from your personal experience, that seed beads with the same size marking from different brands in the reality don’t have the same size. My short study explains how is it possible…
This bracelet will be guaranteed one of your favourites: it is simple, delicate and elegant with tiny colourful accents.
I teach you in this video tutorial how to do the Flat Chenille stitch. I teach a new bracelet design, which I created for this year’s International Beading Week (IBW).
You don’t need any special beads, you can use seed beads from your beadstash! Don’t worry, if you are an absolute beginner, I hold your hand and lead you step by step through the whole process.
Learn the Flat Chenille Stitch from me, the developer of the design and create your own Geneviève Bracelet!
The Flat Chenille design is a simple and beautiful pattern. This tutorial teaches you a new Flat Chenille Stitch bracelet, which I designed for this year’s International Beading Week (IBW). You can learn from this lesson:
The story of the Chenille Spiral and its inventor,
Why I developed the Flat Chenille design,
How to do the Flat Chenille Stitch and how to make the Geveviève bracelet,
How to end your thread, and add a new thread if you are working with the Flat Chenille design,
How to add the clasp to your bracelet.
The tutorial leads you step by step throughout the whole process with high quality sharp video footage, explanatory figures of each step, english narration and english subtitles but without any music. If you would like to listen to the music while beading, you can turn on your favourite music. If the narration is distributing, turn down the volume, and read the subtitles.
This is NOT A DOWNLOADABLE PRODUCT!
You can watch the videos through the whole IBW (from 24th July to the 1st August [UK time]) for free at any times you want.
If you are happy with your bracelet, you can post photos from it and please mention me as the designer of the beadwork, but please don’t post phase photos or video footage about the process and the semifinished design. Thank you for your understanding.
PART 1 contains the basic information and the basic instructions about the beads, the thread and the other materials you need for this project.
In PART 2 I will show you how you can start the work.
There is a part in the beading which we will repeat. You will find this section in PART 3.
PART 4 shows how to end your beadwork.
In PART 5 I will show you how to add the clasp to your beadwork.
If you are out of the thread PART 6 shows how you can end your old thread and add a new one.
With this structure you can watch for example the repeating part again and again if you are a beginner, or if you need me to guide you throughout the whole process. If you have gained practice in this part, you can stop the video and do it yourself, and when you are ready with this part you can go to the next section and continue the beading.
LIST OF MATERIALS
For this bracelet you can use seed beads size 11/0 and 15/0 together, or seed beads size 8/0 and 11/0 together.
Materials for the black-rainbow bracelet with 12 colours:
AA – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 1 – Opaque-Frosted Jet (49F)
BB – Japanese Toho seed beads size 11/0 – Opaque-Frosted Jet (49F)
CC – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 2 – Silver-Lined Amethyst (26C)
DD – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 3 – Silver-Lined Purple (2224)
EE – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 4 – Silver-Lined Sapphire (35)
FF – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 5 – Silver-Lined Aquamarine (23)
GG – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 6 – Silver-Lined Dk Peridot (24B)
HH – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 7 – Silver-Lined Peridot (27)
CC2 – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 8 – Silver-Lined Lime Green (24)
DD2 – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 9 – Silver-Lined Lemon (32)
EE2 – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 10 – Silver-Lined Lt Topaz (22)
FF2 – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 11 – Silver-Lined Hyacinth (30B)
GG2 – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 12 – Silver-Lined Lt Siam Ruby (25)
HH2 – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 13 – Silver-Lined Ruby (25C)
Toho One-G thread – Black
Materials for the matte-silver-rainbow bracelet with 6 colours:
AA – Japanese Toho seed beads size 11/0, colour 1 – PermaFinish – Matte Galvanized Aluminum (PF 557F)
BB – Japanese Toho seed beads size 8/0 – PermaFinish – Matte Galvanized Aluminum (PF 557F)
CC – Japanese Toho seed beads size 11/0, colour 2 – Transparent-Rainbow-Frosted Amethyst (166CF)
DD – Japanese Toho seed beads size 11/0, colour 3 – Transparent-Rainbow-Frosted Dk Aquamarine (163BF)
EE – Japanese Toho seed beads size 11/0, colour 4 – Transparent-Rainbow-Frosted Peridot (167F)
FF – Japanese Toho seed beads size 11/0, colour 5 – Transparent-Rainbow-Frosted Lemon (175F)
GG – Japanese Toho seed beads size 11/0, colour 6 – Transparent-Rainbow-Frosted Hyacinth (174BF)
HH – Japanese Toho seed beads size 11/0, colour 7 – Transparent-Frosted Lt Siam Ruby (5F)
Thread: fishing line, clear, size 0.16 mm
Materials for the white-rainbow bracelet with 6 colours:
AA – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 1 – Opaque-Frosted White (41F)
BB – Japanese Toho seed beads size 11/0 – Opaque-Frosted White (41F)
CC – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 2 – Silver-Lined Purple (2224)
DD – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 3 – Silver-Lined Aquamarine (23)
EE – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 4 – Silver-Lined Peridot (27)
FF – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 5 – Silver-Lined Lemon (32)
GG – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 6 – Silver-Lined Hyacinth (30B)
HH – Japanese Toho seed beads size 15/0, colour 7 – Silver-Lined Lt Siam Ruby (25)
Flat Chenille is still one of my favourite designs I developed. It is so simple, well organised and dainty. That is the reason, I love it very much.
I like the simple version of the ring too (which I designed in 2015), but I think, these rings with the pearls are even more elegant.
New in the tutorial: You will find cutout marker labels for the beads I used to create the beadwork on the printer friendly pages of the tutorial. Use them to make the beading easier and more transparent.
