4.12.2021
Experiments with:
Effetre Red Roof Tile on Black
Cranberry Gold on Clear
Dark Purple Transparent on Clear and Lavender Blue Transparent
Cranberry Gold
Cranberry Gold hollow dotties on clear, and solid spacer beads.
Dark Purple Trans. Continued…
For these I played around with the placement of dots. Rather than alternating rows, I went for vertical alignment. I prefer these to the standard beads with dotties, as the tapering dots feel more elegant.
Dark Purple Transparent
Dark Purple Transparent is pretty dark—to me it’s a little too dark for bead curtain fodder when it’s a solid bead, as it almost reads as black. As a dottie it’s fine, because the color is thinned out by virtue of only being an accent decoration. Some of the beads are on a clear base, and some are on Lavender Blue Transparent (although the Lavender Blue is so subtle it’s basically just a tinted clear.) Hooray for using up old glass.
Red Roof Tile
More layered dotties with Red Roof Tile on 064 Black. The top left bead had a thin spot and popped. Those are called “Screamers.” Despite being a less-than-perfect bead, the delightfully named Screamers can be really useful for stringing projects.
Dark Purple Trans. Continued…
Some experiments with twisted dotties. In this instance the color was too thinned out and the twisted dots don’t read very clearly.