Africa Helix pearl necklace
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 | | |I learned this pure point beading Carol Wilcox Wells' book Creative weaving beads but I think it was first described in the book "The Pearl Bad Bad". Blakelock Virginia. These are two excellent books must-haves for any beadwork library.
The point is unique because it is the only one I know where the ball went through only once, during the first pick them up. All staff weaving is done by a loop on the wire. This makes it a very flexible, comfortable, tube, which made a beautiful necklace embellished or plain. I will include links to examples of work done using this point at the bottom of this article so you can get a better idea of what it looks like and what can be done with it.
First, you'll need support to work around. An old ordinary pencil should be the perfect size for the number of beads we will use. Now choose two colors of size 11 seed beads that look nice. One for the "thorns" (the lines that spiral around the outside of the propeller) and one for color background. I used a mat of dark green and thorns for the red-green bordered to the background. The dark green turned black pearls in the analysis and they look better this way.
String of 4 to 3 repeats the background color and 1 spine color for a total of 16 pearls. Attach the marbles in a circle and roll the circle of beads on a pencil. It should be quite tight, because the first line is smaller than others and if it is not tight, it does not much support for lines. Be sure to bring your beads on the pencil, as illustrated with color sequence from right to left.
Take 3 pearls color background and 2 pearls of the spine. Take your needle and drag down behind the wire between the 4th and 5th beads in the baseline. Make sure you always go down behind the wire from top to bottom, it does not work in the opposite direction. Keep up with your thumb while you pull your thread. Your tension should be very strong throughout. Ideally, it should be tight enough that you can feel the thread pop up between the beads.
The white dot marks the first heel on the baseline. Complete the second line by adding more than 3 points in the same way, the information gathered up 3 beads, pearls 2 of the spine and going under the wire between the 4th and 5th pearl.
The next illustration shows the finished 2nd row and the first point of the 3rd row. The white dots mark the first beads on the 1st and 2nd ranks. I turned the pencil a little so you can see the first point of the 3rd line clearly. Take 3 beads basis and 2 pearls of the spine. Go down behind the wire between the 3rd background color heel and the 1st spine of marbles in the left corner of your wire.
Again, choose an increase of 3 basis pearls and beads spine 2 and get behind the wire between the 3rd background color heel and the first spine of marbles in the next item on the left. Continue to add points in this manner until your propeller reached the required length. Some people take the tube off the support after a couple of inches, but it does not work for me at all. I kept on the pencil all the time and just pushed to the place that I went that way.
To complete the end of the match early, add a final round 4 points using only 3 basis beads and a spine of balls in each point. Then, run through the four stitches final and tighten. Then weave in the work of security. You want to run from May each thread spine-end to strengthen the tube. To make ends meet for a loop, you must first remove the first line of sixteen pearls you've added (not to add the finishing additional row of balls 4 stitches if you plan to do so). You'll probably need to extract more of the first row to get enough wire to work. Try to delete items in groups of four at a time.
Then you have to match the thorns and then weave the ends together. It is much easier to do if you put two ends on your support. Use a pencil short for that. If the ends do not correspond correctly, May you have to add another point or two. When you have the spines aligned, out of the end of one of thorns and descending on the end of the spine correspondent. Then use a group of 3 beads basis through the next spine and go until the end of it and in the end of the spine on the other side. Continue to do so until all the thorns are connected.
The point is unique because it is the only one I know where the ball went through only once, during the first pick them up. All staff weaving is done by a loop on the wire. This makes it a very flexible, comfortable, tube, which made a beautiful necklace embellished or plain. I will include links to examples of work done using this point at the bottom of this article so you can get a better idea of what it looks like and what can be done with it.
First, you'll need support to work around. An old ordinary pencil should be the perfect size for the number of beads we will use. Now choose two colors of size 11 seed beads that look nice. One for the "thorns" (the lines that spiral around the outside of the propeller) and one for color background. I used a mat of dark green and thorns for the red-green bordered to the background. The dark green turned black pearls in the analysis and they look better this way.
String of 4 to 3 repeats the background color and 1 spine color for a total of 16 pearls. Attach the marbles in a circle and roll the circle of beads on a pencil. It should be quite tight, because the first line is smaller than others and if it is not tight, it does not much support for lines. Be sure to bring your beads on the pencil, as illustrated with color sequence from right to left.
Take 3 pearls color background and 2 pearls of the spine. Take your needle and drag down behind the wire between the 4th and 5th beads in the baseline. Make sure you always go down behind the wire from top to bottom, it does not work in the opposite direction. Keep up with your thumb while you pull your thread. Your tension should be very strong throughout. Ideally, it should be tight enough that you can feel the thread pop up between the beads.
The white dot marks the first heel on the baseline. Complete the second line by adding more than 3 points in the same way, the information gathered up 3 beads, pearls 2 of the spine and going under the wire between the 4th and 5th pearl.
The next illustration shows the finished 2nd row and the first point of the 3rd row. The white dots mark the first beads on the 1st and 2nd ranks. I turned the pencil a little so you can see the first point of the 3rd line clearly. Take 3 beads basis and 2 pearls of the spine. Go down behind the wire between the 3rd background color heel and the 1st spine of marbles in the left corner of your wire.
Again, choose an increase of 3 basis pearls and beads spine 2 and get behind the wire between the 3rd background color heel and the first spine of marbles in the next item on the left. Continue to add points in this manner until your propeller reached the required length. Some people take the tube off the support after a couple of inches, but it does not work for me at all. I kept on the pencil all the time and just pushed to the place that I went that way.
To complete the end of the match early, add a final round 4 points using only 3 basis beads and a spine of balls in each point. Then, run through the four stitches final and tighten. Then weave in the work of security. You want to run from May each thread spine-end to strengthen the tube. To make ends meet for a loop, you must first remove the first line of sixteen pearls you've added (not to add the finishing additional row of balls 4 stitches if you plan to do so). You'll probably need to extract more of the first row to get enough wire to work. Try to delete items in groups of four at a time.
Then you have to match the thorns and then weave the ends together. It is much easier to do if you put two ends on your support. Use a pencil short for that. If the ends do not correspond correctly, May you have to add another point or two. When you have the spines aligned, out of the end of one of thorns and descending on the end of the spine correspondent. Then use a group of 3 beads basis through the next spine and go until the end of it and in the end of the spine on the other side. Continue to do so until all the thorns are connected.
