Beading tutorial – Beading tutorials

Posted on 2025-12-02 by Diána Balogh

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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Don’t forget to post photos of your finished stars here! I would like to see your creations!

Posted on 2023-11-302025-12-02 by Diána Balogh

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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.

Posted on 2023-04-262023-04-26 by Diána Balogh

Toho – Miyuki seed beads comparison

“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…

You can download it for free from here >>

Posted on 2021-07-202021-07-20 by Diána Balogh

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:

Posted on 2021-05-172021-05-17 by Diána Balogh

Flat Chenille Ring No 2

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.

Posted on 2021-03-042021-03-04 by Diána Balogh

Beaded flowers around a round stone

One of my favourite customers ask me to design a very simple, feminine pendant: a 12 mm rivoli surrounded by tiny flowers.

She bought two dozen sweaters for women come from low-income families, are in shelters or getting back in the work force. She wanted to bead a small pendant to donate along with the sweaters, something pretty but not that would cause the women harm in anyway.

“I just wanted to make a little something special for them that they cannot buy in the store.”

Posted on 2021-02-222021-02-22 by Diána Balogh

Beaded herringbone stitch necklace

I created this herringbone stitch necklace for the Aglio pendant. I made a 86 cm (34 inch) long rope without clasp, and plugged both ends of the chain through the Aglio pendant. It gave a very interesting result, my pendant became a scarf buckle.

I played with the rope and the pendant. I plugged the herringbone rope through the Aglio bead and created a simple pendant (a big bead on a rope) from it.

At the end I turned it into a real garlic (hence the name Aglio, it means garlic) by using a big bead cap. I attached a big jump ring to the pendant, and put it on the herringbone necklace.

And now I wrote a tutorial for the herringbone necklace as well, which teaches you how you can bead a herringbone rope from seed beads, and how you can create a necklace from your herringbone rope.

Posted on 2021-02-032023-02-03 by Diána Balogh

Flat Chenille Stitch lessons

Join the Flat Chenille Stitch Facebook group and learn the secrets of the Flat Chenille Design!

As a group member you can learn for free how to do Flat Chenille Stitch from me, the developer of the design.
In the teaching material I show you those points where you have to pay attention to the details.
You can post the photos of your finished Flat Chenille Stitch jewellery in this group and show us your beautiful creation.

List of the lessons:

Posted on 2021-01-212021-01-21 by Diána Balogh

How to make a beded bookmark – free tutorial

Lately the question often arises, what can we do with our beaded jewellery.

I made these bookmarks for my friends, who never wear jewellery, but like my work very much and read a lot. (The heart is for my husband of course ❤️ )

You can create bookmarks like mine in a few minutes. All you need for this project is a finished pendant (from your “pandemic” collection), needle, thread and round hat elastic. Choose a pendant with a flat backside. Cut off a piece of hat elastic, and sew it to the back side of the pendant. That’s all.
I made a detailed description for this project. You can download it for free.

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This tutorial doesn’t contains the pattern of the pendants I used for create the bookmarks.

This documents shows you only how you can create a bookmark from an existing pendant.

Posted on 2021-01-182021-01-18 by Diána Balogh

Beading tutorial Aurelia beaded bead

A chrysalis or aurelia hides a beautiful butterfly. Unfortunately there is no butterfly in this beaded bead. Nonetheless my daughter gave this name to the beaded bead, because the shape and the hollow structure remind her of a chrysalis.

This is another no-special-bead project. I used 11/0 and 15/0 seed beads and some bicone crystals to create them.