Monday, July 25, 2011
The free tutorial for the Rosette Medallion designed by Ildi-go is lengthy (it spans two posts) but contains very good step-by-step photos. It's a good thing, you'll need them! The Google translator once again did a very poor job of translating the Hungarian to English. I'm not sure if I mentioned this before, but I read somewhere recently that the Hungarian language is very difficult to translate word for word to English. Most of the reason for this is because Hungarian sentences are structured differently so when the translator tries to translate them, it is actually reading them backwards! Ha!
Today I returned to Hungary for a look at a blog called ildi-go colours authored by a young woman in Budapest. The name on her profile is Ildi-go. I'm not sure if this her stage name or real name, but you will love her designs and her free tutorials none the less!
But on to the Rosette Medallion. After deciphering what I thought was the materials list, I basically gave up totally on the written instructions and just used the photos to make the medallion. The materials list is a little confusing, but after studying all the photos, this is what I ended up using for mine with fairly good success:
5 - 8mm rondelles (donuts)
5 - 6mm bicones
15 - 4mm fire-polished beads (oval)
2 Colors - 11/0 beads (I used delicas)
1 Color - 10/0 bead
1 Color - 15/0 bead (You really need something smaller, so in some places I used one less 15/0 to make the
beads fit better)
Ildi-go shows a tray of beads that she used for the medallion which confused me even more because it contained way more beads than what were needed. I'm assuming the additional beads shown were suggestions, because I don't see the extras in the photo anywhere! Oh! Except one place, in the step photo where you begin adding bicones, it looks like the photo was taking using 6mm rondelles instead, but the next photo shows them replaced with the bicones. I think you definitely need to use the bicone to be long enough to span the space you are adding it into. If you take on this project and would like any help understanding it just send me an email, I pretty much have it memorized now. LOL.
If not for my many mistakes (my husband is now very familiar withe the CRACK! of my removing an extra bead from my work by breaking it. Whenever he hears that noise he yells "BOO-BOO" from the next room. It's really rather annoying!!!) this lovely pendant could have been finished in under 2 hours or less!
Rosette Medallion, completed!
Hi,Mandy:-)
ReplyDeleteOoooooooooooo!This is the fantastic pattern!Sometimes I'd need it,or in the scaled down version,as i.e.closures to my beadwork,mostly for bracelets-it would look so nice,I suppose.
Hugs,Hugs,Hugs-Halinka-
Oh, I love the hubby comment! That is a pretty piece, I love the shimmery colors.
ReplyDeleteThis one looks interesting, and I have bookmarked her blog, thank you! At the moment I am working on the Wavy Triangle, and I love it! The biggest problem I had was picking my colours, and once again my stash falls short in some colours. Will have to remedy that when I return home. thanks for the post and am really excited to see my finished product, as already have it in mind to make into a necklace for a gift.
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Love the colors - gorgeous and rich! As always, thanks for being so generous with your own information and ideas for these patterns. I'm definitely going to head over to this blog.
ReplyDeleteCould you make anything more complicated? Geez, girl. This is so intricate that I can't imagine how you did it w/o English instructions. It IS gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteHi Mandy!
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry for the confusing picture. In the beginning I didn't know wich bead will be used. Once I had to change the beads during the work, because didn't fit the size.
Thank you for using my pattern, your medallion is beautiful!
Mandy - you did a beautiful job on this. And might I add, your blog is an amazing resource for beadweaving patterns!!!
ReplyDeleteThat is beautiful! Do you hold a needle inside your beads when you break them out? I was always cutting my thread with the broken bead edges until someone gave me that tip.
ReplyDeleteHi Cat! Yes I do put my needle inside the bead I'm breaking, learned that the hard way! It also helps to lift the offending bead up and away from the others when you break it.
ReplyDeleteOh Oh you actually break a bead to get it out!!!! Yikes! I will spend hours trying to save both the bead and the thread. It is stunning but I know how hard it is to understand the translation for sure.
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