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MANY PICTURES BECAUSE I AM PROUD OF THIS ONE
I wrote a new pattern towards the end of last year and this was my favorite of the samples. I just listed it as an individual bracelet for sale, but I think I'll be a little heartbroken when/if it sells. I just like looking at it lmao
This lady was actually one of the samples that I made while I was figuring out my Headliner Herringbone Pattern which I developed out of a desperate desire to figure out how to use some of my bigger and oddly shaped Czech bead collection. These rounds are 6mm which aren't super hard to use, but I've used this centerpiece + herringbone sides technique to wrangle some pretty unique shapes once I got the design down. It's not my most popular pattern at ALL, but I really love it.
I didn't even get the chance to share this one before it sold on Etsy literally hours after I listed it??
Which, it primarily wonderful, but also means I REALLY have to buckle down and do these photography and listing chores. If there's actual interest?? Now I feel bad for keeping this pile of jewelry from their futures lmao
Anyway, this one has sold but I do have a pattern for this design that is available in any other beaders want to throw me $6 and learn how to make it themselves! (Ruched Tila Bracelet Pattern by Wescott Jewelry)
Y'all are never going to believe this, but I actually finished an Etsy listing today. It's been like two years since I uploaded a piece of jewelry instead of a digital pattern and it was SO annoying. No wonder I've procrastinated doing this until I had a mountain of finished beadwork just growing in my craft room.
Anyway, the earrings are here if you want to give a friend some lovely clicky traffic. And the pattern is here if you're a beader who wants my pattern for these beaded stars! You just need SuperDuos, Kite Beads, and Miyuki 11/0's and once you get the pattern down, it beads up SO quickly.
New pattern time, baybeeeeeee!
I FINALLY had the motivation to write up a tutorial for my newest design and I am honestly so pleased with how it turned out. This is my longest and most detailed pattern yet with all the sample colors, giant digital illustrations, and THREE different clasp attachment options. She's a 13 page beast and I love her.
This is essentially embellished right-angle-weave and beginner friendly as long as you know how to add thread and thread a beading needle. I hope yall enjoy it!
One Year Later (A Craft Room Reveal!)
(Hi, everybody! I am trying to get back into bead blogging, so I'm sharing this post here in the hopes of getting back into the swing of it :) Cheers!)
I may very well be hollering delightedly into the void, but Hello, my dear blog, I have missed you!
When I posted last year that my spouse and I were in the process of buying our first home, I had a feeling it was going to throw a major wrench in my beading. Moving is such a process and it was complicated by painting, paperwork, and the fact that my future bead room ended up becoming our dumping ground storage room for the first several months of living in our new home.
Judge not. Moving is a heinous process and I shan’t apologize for my behavior during that trial.
And I truly did not bead for about six months. I have been pretty bad at keeping this blog updated over the past few years, but to not bead at all for that long was unusual and unpleasant. Once we finally got through the worst of the Furniture Buying and Stuff Organizing phase and everything was painted, I was finally able to bully my spouse into making a lifelong dream of mine come true.
Slat wall! I was able to source three reasonably affordable 4×4 panels of slat wall off of Ebay from someone local enough that he delivered them straight to my porch. Once my spouse figured out a safe way to hang something that heavy in plaster walls (did I mention our house is almost 100 years old?), he hung up all three panels for me and I am OBSESSED. I have hung up all my tubed seed beads and it reminds me so viscerally of when Beads Direct USA was a brick and mortar store and I could spend an entire shift rearranging seed beads on the wall into the perfect color order.
I am so delighted. ANYWAY, I am pretty sure that I promised y’all a craft room tour, so lets get to it! The white table is a motorized adjustable height table that I got for a steal at our local wayfair outlet because of some minor cosmetic damage. It raises and lowers with a pretty crazy range and so far I mostly use it at standing height, which is lovely after a day of sitting at the office shipping and packaging beads all day. It’s currently at sitting height so you can see all of the beads.
These two panels hold all of my tubed seed beads. They are arranged in sections by brand and size and then by color within those sections. The gaps are intentional so that I can add beads as I buy them without having to completely rearrange the entire panel.
On the far wall is a third panel that I use to hang my assorted chain, ribbon, cording, and beading thread. There’s plenty of room for me to move beads over if I overflow the first two panels and I have a few extra hooks left, which also live over there. I keep my beloved cart that was gifted to me by my dear friend and former coworker, Maggie, which I keep filled with pieces waiting for photos and to be listed online (my least favorite part, so they have to be visible to nag me). I do keep a step-stool in the room because I am a shortie.
Next to the third panel of slat wall is my personal jewelry collection (which is mostly earrings). I stole this method from Spitfire July and its honestly so easy and convenient. The stud earrings get pushed straight into the cork and the ones that hang from hooks dangle from T-Pins. The large piece of furniture was kindly left by the previous owners and it is FULL of beads and craft supplies. You can see my white Elizabeth Ward storage system and all the yarn stuffed on top for my beginner crochet experiments. The drawers and cabinets are also stuffed full of beads and you can see my nail polish collection on the middle section.
Our old house is heated with radiators, but they have these radiator covers that don’t get too hot to the touch, so I store my display items on there. I usually need to leave the middle clean so that Bridget can hop up there and look out the window. It looks out into our backyard and sun streams in in the morning, so you can usually find Bridget melting in a sun puddle on the carpet. On the other side of the room is my beloved bird chair, which I also snatched from the Wayfair outlet. Sometimes you can find me sitting there to crochet, but my favorite is when my spouse sits there to read and keep me company while I work at my bead desk. Relatedly, the painting you can see by the window is “In Love” by Marcus Stone, which my spouse bought me for my birthday this year, which depicts a man in love watching his lady busily crafting.
I am in love with my space and have been so happy slowly organizing it and tweaking it to my needs. I have found myself in there so much more frequently. I will admit that I have been posting almost exclusively to Instagram. It’s so easy to be able to post stories and little videos over there that returning to a still image and text-based blog has seemed like too many steps to initiate. I am currently feeling optimistic about my return to this blog, but if you ever wonder where I can be found much more consistently and frequently, give my Wescott Jewelry Instagram a follow.
ANYWAY, I hope you all have enjoyed this little virtual craft room tour and any of you who still check out this little abandoned blog and dear to my heart. I hope to see more of you soon. I have a special project that I recently finished and even a new pattern slowly gaining shape on my bead table, so stay tuned!
All my love, Sam. <3
I always procrastinate putting clasps on pieces, so let’s post a video so I actually get it done. 😅
Long time, no chat! Just wanted to pop in and tell y/all that my spouse and I are finally buying a home! This is relevant to you because I want to move as few things as possible, so all my finished jewelry is mega discounted until July 13th! After that, I'll be taking it down until after we've moved. Pattern sales will be unaffected except for my increased gratitude for any patronage during this very expensive season in my life lmao
Tumblr eats links, but my etsy shop is the same as my account name! <3
It’s that time of year again and I keep forgetting to promote myself because I work in online retail and Amazon never forgives, so it’s all work all the time, baybeeeeeeee
Finally back to listing jewelry after I lost some steam again, haha. I have so many finished pieces laying around, but man, I really hate writing Etsy listings more than anything.
This bracelet was hand-stitched using one of my original beadweaving patterns, the Demoiselle bracelet, which I have a tutorial available for any beadweavers who want to make their own! I particularly like this pattern because its pretty customizable. You can use 6mm cabochons for the centers like I did hear, but honeycomb beads or discduo beads will also work. And you can sub out the 3mm fire-polished and druk beads for anything that same size.
I love these kinds of colors year round, but they feel particularly lovely in mid-october :)
It's all finished! My pattern is finally done and available!
I'm really please with how this one turned out and I think it's one of my best illustrated patterns so far. I included info on the colors I used, thread recommendations, and tips for adjusting the length and customizing the overall appearance with bead choice.
I also made a little info pic that directs folks to actually read the item details that Etsy is just thrilled to hide under a drop down menu, so hopefully people actually see it and go read all the info they need. Fingers crossed!
Fingers crossed that this helps! Thank you all so much for your interest and kind words about this design!
I’m not allowed to play Coral Island until I write this pattern
I’m not allowed to play Coral Island until I write this pattern
I’m not allowed to play Coral Island until I write this pattern
I’m not allowed to play Coral Island until I write this pattern
I’m not allowed to play Coral Island until I write this pattern
Still in Etsy listing mode! This bracelet was a prototype for an upcoming pattern, but I decided to make a few changes, so it is being sold as a truly one of a kind sample, haha. And the colors are unusual for me since I usually go either full earth tones or the opposite end of the spectrum with rainbow gradients, haha.
Everything I’ve been adding is eligible for the Labor Day sale until Sept 5th :)
And the mini version of the bracelet I shared a week or so ago! This is one of my favorite patterns that I've written and I usually make it with 8mm Rounds, which is always exciting because I so rarely get to use beads that big. But this version uses 6mm Rounds and if you change the 4mm Fire-Polished beads to 3mm and the 11/0 Miyuki seed beads to 15/0's, you can get a mini version using the exact same steps! I do find it a bit more fiddly and you have to make more sections to get the same length, but it is a much lighter bracelet with the smaller stones. I really wanted to make both versions in as close to the same colors as I could so I could make a direct size comparison and add it to the pattern listing so people could see the scale. But... it does mean that I now have almost two identical bracelets in my shop, haha. Oops. All jewelry is 20% until the 5th and patterns are 25% off if you want to make your own! If I do say so myself, I think my patterns are pretty well written and easy to understand. :)
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Tori, your tags are killing me lmao
I finally listed this Backsplash Bracelet! It's hard to tell, but the Silky beads in the center are actually a dark ruby red and not black. It looks so killer in the light. You can sorta see it in the first photo!
This is one of my favorite of my original designs. I just never really got over how well the Silky beads and Tango beads fit together. If you're a fellow beadweaver, I do also have a pattern/tutorial available in my shop as well!
This is an amazing design and I love the colourway. Gorgeous work!
That is distinctive and original! I love the colors--it actually looks like expensive backsplash tile! Excellent piece!
Forever cursing the inability of a sideblog to like or reply to posts *shakes fist*
But thank you both so much! I am really fond of this design. The way everything fits together makes me brain so happy lol
And the mini version of the bracelet I shared a week or so ago! This is one of my favorite patterns that I've written and I usually make it with 8mm Rounds, which is always exciting because I so rarely get to use beads that big. But this version uses 6mm Rounds and if you change the 4mm Fire-Polished beads to 3mm and the 11/0 Miyuki seed beads to 15/0's, you can get a mini version using the exact same steps! I do find it a bit more fiddly and you have to make more sections to get the same length, but it is a much lighter bracelet with the smaller stones. I really wanted to make both versions in as close to the same colors as I could so I could make a direct size comparison and add it to the pattern listing so people could see the scale. But... it does mean that I now have almost two identical bracelets in my shop, haha. Oops. All jewelry is 20% until the 5th and patterns are 25% off if you want to make your own! If I do say so myself, I think my patterns are pretty well written and easy to understand. :)
I finally listed this Backsplash Bracelet! It's hard to tell, but the Silky beads in the center are actually a dark ruby red and not black. It looks so killer in the light. You can sorta see it in the first photo!
This is one of my favorite of my original designs. I just never really got over how well the Silky beads and Tango beads fit together. If you're a fellow beadweaver, I do also have a pattern/tutorial available in my shop as well!
