I came up with the concept with this layout after testing with utilizing other beaded components to be framed by Miyuki tila beads. Cubed Tilas Handmade Beads and the Tila Backyard Necklace currently do that to an level, but within this style the intention was supposed to create the tila structures selfsupporting and independent of the polyhedron. The consequent Cosmic Windows part structures an uneven "cosmic" Swarovski crystal together with the tila drops and added Swarovski roundelle deposits, with several SuperDuo beads tossed in for great measure.
Cosmic Windows Band - Vintage Glass Colorway
A Band of Windows
A number of the elements readily link with each other to create a band. This band is completed with a personalized handmade toggle form, that will be completely explained within the Cosmic Windows design.
Cosmic Windows Band - Exotic Sunset Colorway
Coordinating Earrings
Continuing using the motif that I have been on lately, I normally needed to create a set of parts into matching ear-rings. Here's a set in tealblue and brilliant gold:
Cosmic Windows Ear-rings - Gold Glaciers Colorway
Three Package Colorways
Packages for this particular style can be found within the three colorways shown above. Each Cosmic Windows Package comprises all of the beads required to make both the coordinating earrings and also the band, including a set of gold ear wires.
In a big change from my additional packages, this package doesn't contain a beading needle plus line. This change was made by me for several factors. A huge section of the choice was hook quality; I personally changed around to Tulip beading needles almost a couple of years back, although I was nevertheless for example, less-pricey Steve James beading needles in my own packages. Regrettably, the creation of David James beading needles has since relocated from Europe to China, and also the caliber of those needles has reduced to the stage where I will not advocate them for my styles. At once, I am unable to warrant the cost of supplying a Tulip hook in all of my packages without increasing my costs. In the same vein, the quantity of time that I was investing winding Fireline into small bobbins wasn't costeffective.
Therefore, to assist the cost of the currently crystal-heavy clothing, I have omitted the two most easily-accessible parts, which may be located at your own local bead shop or among the advised bead merchants at the base of my own designs site.
Maybe you have caused cosmic deposits? What is your favourite method to utilize them?
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Mon, July 8, 2013
Hyper - Doubled and RAW Line
I stumbled upon a photograph another evening that offered a haphazard thought to me to create a tubular beading element that will both maintain its form and normally curve. I am definitely not the very first bead artist to attempt this, however the knowledge educated me two reasons for line and stitch techniques I believed I had share here.
"Hyper-RAW"
My first efforts at this element used the filled internet stitch tubular peyote, and then, but neither of those stitches executed what I required for this particular element. Then I attempted cubic right-angle weave (CRAW), that was more encouraging. The thread path was expanded by me to 6 rectangular sides rather than four, therefore I was producing connected hexagonal prisms instead of connected cubes, to help make the element heavier. Then I different the dimensions of the drops to ensure it is normally contour, therefore I was producing abnormal hexagonal prisms. Lastly, I adorned the covers and soles of every prism for balance.
Therefore technically, this stitch could be called Unusual Hexagonal Prism Adorned Right-angle Place, or IHPERAW. So I consider it as Hyper - RAW, however this is confusing to mean.
Solitary versus Doubled Line
Additionally, I attempted these parts with both singlelength and doubled-Fireline line. Therefore the line was a bit disorienting to become accustomed to, I'm almost constantly a singlethread beader; than I actually had I held considering that I had more thread left on my own hook! It was additionally challenging to acquire the line through dimension 15 seed drops over several occasions, so I needed to change right down to a size 13 beading hook. I did enjoy how a thread did not troubles it self up while I was weaving; that occurs to me constantly with single thread also it drives me insane.
The distinction within the completed parts is fairly apparent also. The component to the left was weaved with doubled line, and also the component to the best was completed in thread. The line course and beans would be identical for both. Both parts comply with an all-natural contour, but the edition is more elastic.
Listed below are the exact same parts when squeezed. The doubled - thread edition is rigid and barely moves, however the version may squish!
I am not yet certain which edition I will use happening from here. I may used the doubled - thread edition, if I need the last style to be super-stiff. I, however, may have the ability to go away with all the edition if I am not hanging them for an awkward position.
A Bent Part
I am pleased with maintain their form and how these parts contour. They ought to type selfsupporting handmade circles, if they're continued around in Hyper - RAW.
For your interested, you'll get the image that influenced these parts here. Yes, they are designed to become worms. Particularly, a types of worm called C. elegans, a small worm how big a 15 seed bead, which will be really one of the important model organisms that researchers use to analyze a few subfields of biology, particularly neurology, improvement, and genetics. It was simply among the very first microorganisms to get its genome sequenced, and also you'll locate them being used in countless biology laboratories throughout the planet.
You do not normally observe them in bead-kind although;)
Can you use single-thread or doubled line? Or can you use both? Which would you prefer better?
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Wednesday, July 2, 2013
Mind Chemistry Ear-rings
I wove yet another 3D handmade molecule! 2, actually, for a coordinating set for ear-rings.
More Mind Chemistry
Continuing using the theme of handmade chemicals, I wove a set of ear-rings within the chemical framework of -Aminobutyric acid, aka GABA. I utilized the exact same color palette that I utilized formerly for my endorphin pendant, so both items form a coordinating set.
GABA
GABA functions because the main inhibitory neurotransmitter within the stressed system; it basically acts to relax neurons, which is furthermore active within the management of muscle tone. It generally does not have big-name recognition such as another neurotransmitters that I have covered on this particular site for example dopamine, serotonin, and also the hormones, however it is nevertheless a significant section of mind function.
From the architectural perspective, GABA is comparatively straightforward. It's four carbon atoms joined together in a series, with one nitrogen atom at one conclusion, and two oxygen atoms around the opposite end. As the nitrogen atom may have two or three, the carbon atoms not on the air atoms each have two hydrogen atoms. The air atoms, combined with one-carbon atom within the agreement shown within this particle, all type what natural chemists phone a carboxyl group.
I have portrayed this molecule like a zwitterion, that's a natural molecule which has both a good charge plus a negative cost. As the damaging charge is discussed among the atoms of the carboxyl group, the good charge rests in the nitrogen atom. 
