Challenge Bracelet 5

I seem to be getting a bit ahead of myself with my weekly challenges but I'm not too worried as it will give me leeway if I have a bad making week.
 
This time I've experiments with spiral peyote stitch
again. using techniques I learnt on making Challenge Bracelet 2  , and from the necklace which was my first finished project of the year, I made a new bracelet!

Weekly Challenge - Bracelet 2!

After playing with peyote spiral rope a couple of weeks ago, I wondered what would would happen if I just used one size of seed bead in the spiral pattern instead of varying it.

I guess I have an answer! I think I might have a go at a few more of these too. The rope is a nice relaxing pattern to make in front of the television after work in an evening, and I do have a fair amount of seed beads in my bead stash!

Now listed on Etsy for sale.

First Finished Object of the Year :)

And on Etsy

Round and Round We Go

Since I saw a Cellini spiral beaded rope I've been intrigued as to how they work. I'd asked a few people who said they were really complicated so have put them off for a long time but since I've been playing with seed bead netting, I figured that now was the time to learn.

I'm not a huge fan of instructions, partially as they generally don't make any sense to me at all which lead me passing them to G for him to figure them out and then showing me how it works which takes up his time and annoys me as I get so frustrated.

I like figuring out how things work, making up the instructions and then learning from the mistakes I make which in turn teaches me how the process works properly.

I did find some instructions on the web which actually made sense though at Bead and Button.

As usual, I didn't actually follow the instructions, I changed what beads I used, and didn't make a bracelet, or include memory wire as instructed, but I'm so pleased with what I have made!



Can you guess which one I made on Christmas day morning?



And an obligatory blurry arty shot