Author: Diána Balogh
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Let’s make the last days of the year bright together!
My gift to you this year, my dear newsletter subscriber, will be different than usual.
This year didn’t turn out exactly as I wanted. Although I started the new year with big plans in January, a family tragedy changed everything. I didn’t even take out my beads for a long time, I simply wasn’t able to create.
I don’t want to end this year the way I did the whole year, so I decided that in December I will create something every day. Something very simple beadwork.
In the coming days – according to my plans, until Christmas – I will make a Christmas star every day. And on December 24th I will put together a Christmas decoration from my stars. These little stars are made very quickly, and all you need is leftover beads and a 10 cm wire star base.
I invite you to join me and make the stars with me. Let’s make the last days of the year bright together.
If you’re following along, post photos of your finished stars in the Facebook group Beading Tutorials by Diána Balogh.
You can find the tutorial of the stars here >>
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Happy Holidays!
Celebrate the last month of this year with me!
I would like to thank you all for the many purchases and for the positive reviews in my stores; for the many likes and kind comments I received on my posts on Facebook and Instagram and the kind messages and emails you sent me during the year. These are very-very important things in my life, these are the “driving forces” of my work to create new designs and to write tutorials from them.
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“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…
Flat Chenille 101
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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!
You can learn from this lesson:
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