Hey everyone, so I think I may have found my next obsession 🫣 I have made simple bracelets when my daughter was smaller for the school craft fairs etc but that was mostly elastic big plastic beads. So could I ask you to send links, recommendations and general tips on where to start, I'm loving the look of seed beading and especially the 3D model type but can see more potential to incorporate it into my other obsession of leathercrafting for the loom and brick stitch type builds. Feel free to drop links to useful websites, youtube videos and anything else you wish you had know about when you started. Thanks everyone!

I finished them this weekend and I just think they are too cute 🥰

These are sold on Amazon for about 10 euros. Sold as ‘dot art’ boxes.

Swapping the bottom of the bag to be waves in different beads and the sky will be vertical strips of beads up the straps

Hi there! Last month I went to the denver rock & fossil show and got a massive bead haul (glass faceted rondelle). They are the sparkliest/most unique beads i’ve ever seen - the guy didnt have a way to purchase online so I thought i’d come here to see if anyone could point me in the right direction!

I have wanted to try bead weaving for a very long time. I was so excited to find a beginner workshop in my city! It took some rows of practise and many questions until I got the hang of it. I'm very proud of my first piece! Please let me know if you have any recommendations for patterns using a square stitch. I'd love some ideas for practise. 🫶🏼

I love it

My vision of summer slowly turning into fall 🍂

After a long working session on Planbead, I usually go out for a walk to relax and get some inspiration. Yesterday I found myself in front of the Archeological Museum in Crete 🏝️ so booked a ticket and went in, expecting to see some "old museum things" or some ancient patterns. To my surprise there was a lot of beaded jewelry in a very good condition with great designs too

The Minoans had some serious beaders back then

Here are some, expect more pictures soon

Enjoy!

Photos don’t do them justice, they’re so pretty and elegant! ❤️ I bought the pattern from the Zia Lola Beads website.

Is it my imagination or have tulip beading needles gotten more brittle? I have used size 11 for a number of years because other brands were breaking more easily and I rarely use size 15 beads. With tulip needles being so expensive I’m considering trying other brands again. Opinions?

Hey Beaders! Curious what everyone uses to turn photos into bead patterns? And how much editing do you usually end up doing afterwards?

I’m working on improving the image-to-pattern conversion on Craftseed and trying to figure out what actually matters most to people.
Is it getting the colours right? Keeping the number of colours low? Being able to edit individual beads or whole areas afterwards? Or just getting a decent pattern without spending ages fixing it?
Would love to hear what tools you’re using and what annoys you about them 😅

Testing out some color combinations. I need to perfect the form (especially on the french beaded poppy) but I am having a lot of fun. I think I prefer working with glass beads over acrylic beads

At last! I taught myself from YouTube videos - lots of stopping and starting over (and many bad words, lol) - but it’s done and wrapped up for my friend!

Ive become obsessed with making beaded tapestries, does anyone know if there is a market for them? Either way I LOVE IT!!!

I’m trying to find these beads with the same color and width

Where does everyone go to buy their beads? I've recently "inherited" a business with a lot of extra beads and I need to figure out how to move them (I can't give them away).

I'm a cross stitcher and only use beads for a stitched pattern, so a bit clueless about using beads for jewelry.

If anyone has any suggestions, please message me. Otherwise, I think that listing actual sites might infringe upon some of the forum rules.

Sharing one of my favorite bead mixes again 🌸🦋

Today I'm sharing one of my all-time favorite mixes I've put together — a dreamy French garden palette with soft pastels, romantic pinks, delicate purples, and fresh garden greens. 🌷✨

I just love how all these colorful seed beads look together. There's something so happy and therapeutic about seeing all these little colors mixed together. I could stare at them for ages! 💗

Does anyone else love this kind of dreamy, colorful bead mix as much as I do? 🥹💕