As it is International Beading Week, which is designed to share the joy of beading with others. As well as hopefully encourage more people to try this creative art form. We wanted to help complete beginners to discover the love of beading. As it can sometimes be overwhelming. There’s often different opinions of where to … Read more
Back in April 2011, just before the big Royal Wedding of Wills & Kate, I created a beaded Union Jack. I wrote a pattern for it in a blog post (you can read the original here). It was an exciting time for a year or so in Britain with the wedding, Jubilee and London Olympics. … Read more
I thought I’d share my experiments working with polymer clay. I’ve always enjoyed trying my hand at different crafts of all kinds. An inclination has only been encouraged since working at The Bead Shop. Being surrounded by tools and materials all day. As well as interacting with our inspiring customers and staff certainly helps me … Read more
Our Free Easter Beading Pattern – how to make your own brick stitch decorative eggs is a great way to get into beading. Eggs are an obvious shape to work with for Easter crafts, symbolising new life. They’re also a fun shape to get creative with. We’ve put together several fun designs along with blank … Read more
Make these brick stitch diamond earrings using Miyuki Delica beads. This simple brick stitch pattern is ideal for beginners and can be made to match any outfit using our wide range of different Delica colours! If you are new to brick stitch, our getting started video covers both peyote and brick stitch (it uses the … Read more
Create a beautiful drop stone beaded bezel pendant using seed beads and Delicas around a teardrop or pearl shaped stone. The elegant bezelled pendant uses circular Peyote stitch around the central crystal stone. Tools and Materials How to make a Drop Stone Beaded Bezel 1.Cut a long manageable length of thread, leaving a long tail … Read more
This paw print peyote pattern was originally designed to help raise funds for the cats protection when we hosted a Pawsome Tea party. If you’ve enjoyed the pattern please feel free to make a donation online herehttps://www.cats.org.uk/donate And for mare information visitwww.pawsometea.org Thank you! Tools and Materials Miyuki Delica beads in DB004 Purple Iris Miyuki … Read more
The Miniduo Flower Bezel is a beadwoven design that can be easily turned into a necklace pendant or a brooch. Using Miniduo 2 hole beads, Czech seed beads and a Swarovski Rivoli, this a is a great intermediate bead-weaving project. The beaded bezel around the rivoli is created using right angle weave (RAW) and size … Read more
These Beaded Superduo Flowers are an ideal beginner bead-weaving project. Difficulty: Beginner What you will make: Beaded flowers that can that can be turned into earrings, necklace or bracelets. You will learn: Simple bead-weaving techniques using two hole Superduos and seed beads to create a beaded flower design.
Learn how to use the bead-weaving technique of brick stitch to create a hexagon shape with our step-by-step tutorial. Difficulty: Beginner (some previous bead-weaving would be helpful) What you will make: A hexagon shape made out of Delica beads using a beading technique called brick stitch. You will learn: How to get started, increase, decrease … Read more
This pattern uses a variety of beading stitches including ladder stitch, brick stitch and fringing. Providing a great way to learn new techniques and create an effective design.
Miyuki Beading Thread Green is a fine beading thread that will easily pass through the eye of a size 15 beading needle. This thread is therefore particularly useful with smaller, delicate beading projects. There are 50 metres per reel. We also stock this thread in a variety of different colours.
Miyuki Beading Thread Light Blue is a fine beading thread that will easily pass through the eye of a size 15 beading needle. This thread is therefore particularly useful with smaller, delicate beading projects. There are 50 metres per reel. We also stock this thread in a variety of different colours.
Miyuki Beading Thread Purple is a fine beading thread that will easily pass through the eye of a size 15 beading needle. This thread is therefore particularly useful with smaller, delicate beading projects. There are 50 metres per reel. We also stock this thread in a variety of different colours.
Miyuki Beading Thread Red is a fine beading thread that will easily pass through the eye of a size 15 beading needle. This thread is therefore particularly useful with smaller, delicate beading projects. There are 50 metres per reel. We also stock this thread in a variety of different colours.
Miyuki Beading Thread White is a fine beading thread that will easily pass through the eye of a size 15 beading needle. This thread is therefore particularly useful with smaller, delicate beading projects. There are 50 metres per reel. We also stock this thread in a variety of different colours.
Thank you for subscribing to our newsletter we hope you enjoy these exclusive projects that we share with just you, our newsletter readers. These projects are kindly created by The BeadSmith inspiration squad. They are for your own personal use. You’ll find further information about the designer and the copyright for each design on the … Read more
Hi, I’m Eloise! The newbie here at The Bead Shop. You may have seen me on our Instagram or in store recently. I’ve recently really got into making items from Sculpey clay. So I thought I’d share some top tips from my first time using polymer clay. When my partner first found The Bead Shop, … Read more
If you thought macrame was all about boho wall hangings and seventies plant hangers, think again! Macrame jewellery puts decorative knotting and simple jewellery making skills together to create some incredible pieces of jewellery.
We are in the process of re-formatting all our free projects into our new, more user-friendly project gallery page! How To Leaflet Our how to leaflet contains information for you to get to grips with the basics of jewellery making. It details the basic tools and components used for making earrings, bracelets and necklaces as … Read more
This pattern to create Barnaby barn Owl has clear instructions about how to weave peyote stitch including, odd count row turns, decreasing and joining in new thread so a beginner should be able to get to grips with the design as well as more experience beaders. Once finished your Barnaby Owl will measure 12.1 centimetres … Read more
This is an ideal pattern to learn the technique for Right Angle Weave.
Stretch Magic elastic 1mm in Sparkle Silver colour is the perfect way to get into bracelet making. Stretch Magic is a strong plastic elastic ideal for making stretchy bracelets. It doesn’t fray like fabric elastics so is much easier to use. The 1.0mm elastic is ideal for beads with larger holes e.g size 3 or … Read more
1mm Gold Sparkle Stretch Magic is the perfect way to get into bracelet making. Stretch Magic is a strong plastic elastic ideal for making stretchy bracelets. It doesn’t fray like fabric elastics so is much easier to use. The 1mm Gold Sparkle Stretch Magic is ideal for beads with larger holes e.g size 3 or … Read more
