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Interpreting a Magazine Project – Two perspectives

Do you like to make the projects from magazines?

Do you follow it exactly?

or

Do you let your ideas wander and adapt ?

Here we look at what Prue and Jo did with a project from issue 8 of Digital Beading Magazine.

cuff-project-dbm

 

Prue

I purchased the aqua beads from a destash market a while ago. They are a really old glass and were from a broken necklace. The mauve beads I’ve had since I started beading and now after creating this bracelet there are just three left.  I love the two colours together. It’s heavy because of the old glass beads and feels great on.  I played around with the clasp and adjusted the rounds to fit through the loops for the clasp. I have basically followed the pattern but changed the bead selection to create something more like what I wear.

cuff-bracelet-prue

Jo

I’ve had these multicolour rondels for a while so when we decided to do this project I had a look through my bead stash and saw these, but there were not enough, luckily I had some smaller ones too, but again not enough. I decided to use the bigger beads in the middle and graduate to the sides, then using some small fire polished beads at the ends to finish it off. I used a plain slide clasp, as I did not have enough beads  left to make the beaded loops.

 

cuff-bracelet-jo

What do you think about our interpretation of this project? It’s fun to see how two different bracelets evolve from one design. It’s good to experiment with a basic pattern and see what happens.

We challenge you to have a go too.

 

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