5 Tips for Beading Bezels Like a Pro-For ANY Shape!

[@patriciamorgan6545]

How did I miss this when you first published it? Great tips!!

[@SandyHuntress]

Thanks for letting me know you like it, Patricia! Happy creating 🙂

[@patriciamorgan6545]

@@SandyHuntress As many bezeling tutorials as I've watched, and as many good tips that have been shared for the sucess of individual designs, no one has really quite gone through the initial discovery process of how to create a design in the first place. This focus was most helpful! Thank you! I might actually try coming up with a design of my own one of these days.😀👍

[@karenallen5208]

I like this design. I would like to point out that as I've worked extensively with two-hole beads, there have been times when I wound up with a clogged hole later in my design. I've been very successful in taking my sharp awl and drilling through that clog easily. I've never had an issue with that, and certainly I've made use of all my beads. Thank you

[@SandyHuntress]

I'm glad to hear you've been able to fix all your clogged bead holes! Maybe I'm too impatient, but I usually manage to break them when trying to clear out the holes. 🙄

[@karenallen5208]

@@SandyHuntress You do have to be gentle with them. I take the awl with the sharp point and gently twist them back and forth. Most of the time it doesn't take much to break through. I guess I'm too cheap to throw them away if I can use them. Whatever works for you.

[@SandyHuntress]

@@karenallen5208 Good tips, thanks!

[@StitchesbySharonH]

So pretty! I love bezels! Thank you for sharing! 💜

[@SandyHuntress]

Thanks, Sharon, glad you like them!

[@clairebacchi360]

Thank you for your patience making this tutorial. I’m glad you mentioned that you make a few pieces. That was good advice for me, because I’m impatient. I end up taking it all apart, and that frustrates me. Do you eventually take the pieces apart and reuse the beads?

[@SandyHuntress]

You are very welcome, Claire! I hope you find it helpful. Sometimes I do take apart the pieces to reuse the beads. It depends on how much I like how the piece came out. :-) I really like the one with red beads all around, so may take apart the other one, just because I don't really NEED two versions. Happy creating!

[@leonanelson2444]

Beautiful, thank you

[@SandyHuntress]

You’re welcome! Glad you like it. 😊

[@suem.3651]

As an experienced designer who, up until recently, mainly uses or modifies other people’s designs, I was seeking a PC Navette pattern to get my creative juices flowing. In this video, I found so much more! You have increased my design confidence tenfold!! These tips are so great and proven out in my experience! To new beaders: Watch Allie Buchmann of Potomac Beads’ first few Better Beader Episodes on which beads have similar shapes you can use as substitutes!

[@SandyHuntress]

Thanks for letting me know you found the video helpful! Encouraging and inspiring others to try their own designs was my goal, so I’m so glad to know it helped you in that way. 😀 Happy creating!

[@suem.3651]

@@SandyHuntress It did. I need to rewatch it.

[@amberm2777]

Beautiful

[@SandyHuntress]

Thanks 😊

[@suem.3651]

What software do you or other designers use to a) Design and b) Create your patterns?

[@SandyHuntress]

Hi Sue, I personally don’t use any software to design patterns. Although I create the occasional beading design, it’s not my main work. I tend to just roughly sketch out an idea and then figure out the details by trial and error.

[@suem.3651]

Sandy, thanks for your fast reply! Is there a software others use for pattern-making? Or do you hear of people just using Word?

[@SandyHuntress]

@@suem.3651 Honestly, I'm not in the loop of bead designers. I did use a spread sheet to work up a design, but found it aggravating and just pulled out graph paper and colored pencils!

[@moominpug8742]

I have been looking for exactly this tutorial and your tips are fantastic. The only thing you omitted that might have helped me more was you never placed the bezel work over the stone periodically to show how it should fit. 💕🧚🏻‍♀💕

[@SandyHuntress]

Thanks for letting me know you found the tutorial helpful. I didn’t show fitting the bezel work because this was the second one I made, so I knew it would fit. I certainly tested it repeatedly the first time through! 🙂 I also didn’t show on camera all of the pulling out and undoing and redoing while I figured out exactly which combination of beads, sizes and numbers would work. 😉 Happy creating, Moomim!

[@suem.3651]

That is such an honest and true reply! I love how you linked designers’ time in experimenting for you to get a design right as justification to what you are paying for in a pattern.