Crocheted Cuff Bracelets

Something totally new! This time I've designed a few crocheted cuff bracelet.  Bright colors, beads and whimsy...what more could you want?  These are truly one of a kind, whimsical, statement bracelets. Lots of hours involved in creating these beaded pieces of fiber art. 

Little cherries, scalloped and picot beaded edges all made by hand.  I started out with some mercerized cotton thread, slipped on some beads, sewed on a few buttons and this is what I ended up with.  Cheeky Cherry Red bracelet here 

I'm calling this cuff bracelet "Urban Aqua Blue & Red".  My "hand model" shows you how one of these crocheted cuff bracelets would look on your wrist.  I'm loving this color combination and all the little dangle bits!  This design can be found here.
As always, thanks for stopping by...

The Latest Project...

For awhile now I've wanted to create a more appropriate cover for my tablet computer.  I've, also, wanted to try my hand at crocheting some of those cute flowers that I've seen all over Pinterest.

 

Last week I came across this black felted tablet cover while poking around Jo-Ann Fabric & Crafts.  I was doing so good keeping myself out of there but the lure of four 50% off coupons was just too much temptation.  I had managed to stay away since before Christmas but I'm only human!  What's a woman to do!

 

I sort of followed some flower and cherry patterns from Pinterest but then I made up my own variations on them.

I played around with the red flower idea and added in the Cherry glass lampwork cabochon bead but that wasn't working for me. 

 

 

So then I decided to put the glass bead in the middle as a "button" accent.  I liked that better but it was too plain and would need to be embellished.

I figured out the cherry bead placement but then I decided that I wanted to change up the crocheted flower idea.  That's when I decided to create the little Fried Egg Flower Poppy look.  Much cuter idea right?

A closeup view...

I did some bead embellishing around the cherry closure bead and finished attaching all of the crocheted flowers and cherries.

A closeup view of the embellished cherry cabochon bead.  I think it's now a much worthier cover for my tablet and way cuter than the old cover I'd picked up from Target over a year ago.

 

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How to make a crocheted necklace

A few days ago I was talking on the phone with one of my new 'peeps', Audrey, after she had purchased a pair of my Very Cherry earrings.  It was a strange week for Very Cherry earrings last week. I sold four pairs of them to three different people. Anywho...I digress..it seems that Audrey is a creative soul, too. She asked me about how difficult it was to make my Crocheted Cherries Necklace and I replied "not difficult at all". So today I thought I would share with everyone the video that I watched to learn how to create a crocheted necklace.

It really doesn't take long to make and you can totally personalize it to your look by just changing the beads that you use.

Here you can see how just changing the color of the wire that you use and the bead selection will make such a difference using the same technique.

Give it a try and if I can be of any help just shoot me an email or leave me a comment. Enjoy!

Cherries for Rednesday...What else is new!

Thank you to our hostess Sue over at "It's A Very Cherry World". Please click over and join all the wonderful ladies who are sharing their Red for Rednesday.



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I'm calling this my "Crocheted Cherries" necklace. As some of you may or may not know I've been "moonlighting" at a couple of the local Michaels stores as a Bead Corner Academy Instructor. Michaels is now offering fundamental beading technique classes in their stores. One of the newest classes is a necklace crocheted with wire. I tried a couple of designs at home this past weekend and this was my second attempt. The first one I did with pink wire, pink Swarovski crystals, and various pink Czech pressed glass flowers. I like it, too, but you know me and cherries.

This view is a little closer up so you can see the details. This version of the "Crocheted Cherries" is 18 inches in length and is finished off with a black toned toggle clasp making it easy to put on and take off. I'm offering it for sale in my Etsy.com shop here. Thanks so much for stopping by to see my Red for Rednesday.