Interlace

Project by and Sample by Kate Richbourg

This wrap has it all! Kate’s Hybrid necklace gave her some ideas about mashing up more beadshop projects and techniques into a fabulous wrap bracelet. Interlace combines the classic Bollywood style of beaded macramé while inserting center beads as seen in Born Yesterday and Poetry. With even more of a twist on these beadshop staples, Kate is using CzechMates Tiles, see her technique for stringing both through and around these two-holed beads live on the show!

As if that mash-up wasn’t enough, we have even more! The macramé section branches off from a focal Pi stone, and coming from the other side we have two different techniques, too! Using 1.5mm leather, Kate uses a Cat’s Paw knot to create a perfect point to start laddering from. Here, she uses Infinity Stitch to pattern with Quarter Tilas, 8/0 Seed Beads, and Little Shadows. Then, the laddering section blends into a section of Herringbone!
Add one more element to the mix...the famed “Trail’s End Loop,” an infinity-like loop of leather first made popular in Janice’s Trail’s End sample called Ballymaloe, this is a great technique for adding a button loop that’s easily adjustable for size.

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