Welcome to my Blog, a Crafting Year

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I taught myself to knit in 2011 I have been posting photos of my knitting creations on facebook but as I am starting to bore my friends I have created this blog to record my progress. Then I thought I might try my hand at other crafts and see how I get along. I will try a different craft every month and you can read about my successes and failures and even laugh at my photos as I try different things like felting, crochet, sewing, papercrafts etc and try and make a few things from the kids favourite book Star Wars crafts, amongst others...lets see how it goes

Monday, 4 February 2013

10 minute beading

I have found the photos for the quick beaded necklace I made for the job interview in July.
It was for a General Teaching Asst in the Design & Technology Dept at the local secondary school and I thought if I showed up to the interview wearing something I had made it would score me extra points. However I, as usual, left it all to the last minute so after a quick chat with the lovely ladies at Flutterby Crafts http://www.flutterbycrafts.co.uk/            I made this, a quick knotted bead necklace.
Sorry the pictures aren't great- and I didn't get the job....


The supplies


Planning where to put the beads


Bead repeating pattern prep


I made the thread double thickness so I could knot it, then put one strand through the bead and the other around it, then knot it at the bottom to secure it.

then another


I chose 3 beads as my repeating pattern


Finished necklace. This literally took 10 mins and I was really thrilled with the result


I have worn it a few times now and been asked where I bought it!!



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