Thursday, 24 July 2025

Where there are scrolls there are spots

Handmade lampwork glass beads by Laura Sparling

Crafting beads with scrolls on involves pulling a fair amount of stringer and the application of it produces many stray ends that aren't long enough to do anything useful with. Instead of throwing all these stringer oddments away I use some of them for applying spots to beads.

Making spotty beads is always a nice 'effort break' from scrolly ones, not that both don't take effort, but scrolls are way more intensive and go-wrongable than random spots.

Handmade lampwork glass beads by Laura Sparling
'Summer Blues' Scrolls

These 'Summer Blues' scrolly beads are Effetre dark periwinkle 222 encased with Effetre pale aquamarine 038 with scrolls in Effetre light turquoise 232 and spacers in CiM Peacock Feather.

I then used some of the light turquoise stringer for spots on these 'Hydrangea' spotties.

Handmade lampwork glass beads by Laura Sparling
'Hydrangea' Spotties
Handmade lampwork glass beads by Laura Sparling

These are Effetre white 204 encased with Effetre dark lavender 081, and Effetre light turquoise 232 encased with Effetre pale aquamarine 038 with spots in Effetre lavender blue 247.

Handmade lampwork glass beads by Laura Sparling
'Steel Grey' Scrolls
Handmade lampwork glass beads by Laura Sparling

These 'Steel Grey' scroll beads are Effetre white 204 encased with Effetre dark steel grey 088 with scrolls in Effetre white 204.

Handmade lampwork glass beads by Laura Sparling
'Serene' Spotties
Handmade lampwork glass beads by Laura Sparling

I used leftover white stringer on these 'Serene' spotties which have Effetre white 204 cores encased with Effetre pale aquamarine 038 and pale emerald green 031.

Whew! That was a lot of glass numbers but I know some of you like to know exactly what I use for my beads. It's always a handy reminder for myself too.

At the time of typing, the 'Steel Grey' scrolls and the 'Hydrangea' spotties are in my shop with tumble-etching and/or bracelet upgrades available for both.

It's raining here today which means it's quite cool so hopefully I'll get a few hours of shed time in.

Have a good Thursday and I'll see you soon!

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