The focal bead is another one of the
Larry Scott beads that I have bought at
Bead & Button. This one always reminded me of an ice cream parfait and originally I thought I would do something very colorful and maybe a bit silly with it, but then last weekend I was rummaging in my semi-precious stones and decided that I really needed to use some of those garnets that I have been hoarding. I knew that I wanted to do some embellishment to the strand so I used a size 8 bead in a matching color to space the garnets, knowing that after stringing the garnets on the Soft Flex I would not be able to get a needle through them. I then used the same size 8 beads and some transparent gold drops to make the netting. I thought about using some smaller garnets, but they didn't match in color or in reflectivity. I was going to do another set of netting interlaced with the first set but after trying it I decided that it cluttered up the design too much. Less is more.
Materials:
Garnets
Size 8 seed beads -
Beadcats stock # 2-08-280-91 dark red transparent lined with black, irid
Small drops (4 mm x 6 mm) -
Beadcats stock # D-T2-840-00 amber transparent
KO thread in gold
Soft Flex 24k Gold Extreme flex wire (medium)
Gold clasp purchased from the
Soft Flex site
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