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- Oksana Starzhynska
- My blog's main subjects are sewing, the thing in which I am experienced the most, and beadwork, which is, in fact, pushed me into blogging. I am also engaged in knitting and crocheting. All together they are the set of skills which I use to make my wardrobe my whole life. These are not my only interests, I also like the English language (that's one of the reasons that my blog is bilingual), try to travel around my country and abroad (when can afford it), am interested in art (to the degree of a dilettante but nevertheless) and adore the people who can create anything beautiful or useful whatever it is :-) So welcome to a needlecrafter diary!
21 August 2016
Magatama Bracelet, or Mix of Petals
These magatama seed beads are unusual indeed. I looked up the word and the Internet said it means "curved jewel". I guess to design with them is pretty hard - the beads are asymmetrical so either the pattern has to include some reflected elements or just some chaotic arrangements of the beads without any hint to symmetry. I chose the latter one. More than that, as for me, the beads remind petals. And to see the mix of petals to be inspired I only have to step over the porch - and all around is full of such "jewels":-)
For my first magatama project I chose a simple video tutorial from +Potomac Bead Company. On some reason I used peach/tangerine mix of the beads for the embellishment and for the peyote base - creamy 6/0.
Having enough 6/0 at first I made the base for eight seed beads, embellished it with magatamas, made a clasp from a big bead and a seed bead loop. But my 15 grams of magatamas was not enough for all the bracelet. The result turned out to be very rough so I unpicked it to remake.
The second try was much better. I made the peyote base for six 6/0 seed beads. This time 15 grams of magatamas were enough and I even have 7 beads left:-)
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