Laser Beams Simplified

A challenge I made to myself was to create a simple project with just the bright yellow seed beads and white thread. I carried just these items with me on our little road trip to avoid any temptation of adding extra beads. Luckily, I was able to rescue the beads from the green monster who tried to eat them so I could string this week's project.

I made a simple peyote tube toggle and two small brick stitch triangles five beads wide at the base to separate the three strands 16in, 18in, and 20in long. The result is a great summer necklace to wear with your favorite sun dress or beach wear.

You can see how the yellow beads just glow with that white thread behind them. I love to switch up the thread colors behind transparent beads though so I couldn't help myself from stitching a peyote bezel for a bottle cap using a dark orange thread.

The orange thread changed the yellow to match the more yellow orange color on the bottle cap. A perfect color combo. Maybe some green thread next time will pull that laser beam yellow in another direction. Imagine what fun you can have with just a bag of transparent seed beads and a few different thread colors. Until next time, have fun and bead on.

Hero of the Week

As promised, our bead heroes have returned and this week we are featuring one unforgettable hero. A small but bold and striking bead that doesn't need to be large to grab your attention.

When our daughter was about eight years old we let her pick out the colors she wanted us to paint her bedroom. She likes bold colors just as we do. She picked green and blue for the walls and for the trim she picked a color called Laser Beam Yellow. That name very much suits these beads even more so than the Transparent Frosted Lemon Yellow name they came with. They are transparent though so you know what that means, color play with thread! This Friday I will share  with you a super simple necklace that will look great with your summer beach wear and a pendant that uses a different thread color to change the look a bit - but certainly not the boldness.

Until then, let us know what you think of this week's hero in the comments below. Does the intense color frighten you or do you embrace amazingly bright colors in your beadwork?