Starting Peyote Tutorial

| July 3, 2009

Pin itThe first 3 rows of the peyote are the hardest.  Once you get past this point, the rest is gravy….well, except for the tension and that is learned as you go.  In this post, I will talk about 3 ways to start your peyote and leave it up to you to decide which one [...]

How to get Soft Silky Peyote

| July 1, 2009

Pin it Lovely peyote amulet bag made by SandFibers As promised, here is the tutorial for how to get soft, silky peyote. I am a self-taught beader.  My peyote pieces always came out really stiff.  That is the way that I thought it was supposed to be.  Then I got to feel some pieces made [...]

Patriotic Turtles Bracelet

| June 20, 2009

Pin itWell, I am having troubles uploading my picture to Yahoo Groups so will upload it here for everyone to see.  Here is a picture of my naked Patriotic Turtles Bracelet (a quick and dirty).  It is still awaiting its clasp.  You can’t see it that well in this picture but it has a line [...]

Capturing Treasury Page

| June 19, 2008

Pin itIn my Etsy Beadweaving group, some of the members have stated that they do not know how to do a screen capture of their treasuries for their blogs or photo albums.  I will give a little tutorial on how I do it.First download a freeware program called webCollect.   This is an Internet Explorer Add-on.  [...]