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Beaded Dragonfly Jewellery

June 24, 2015 By sue 2 Comments

What do you call a group of dragonflies? Officially the collective noun seems to be a flight of dragonflies or a cluster of dragonflies.  Some more fitting terms that others have used are a glimmer of dragonflies or a dazzle of dragonflies.  But I’ll have to admit that the first term that came to my mind when I completed this project was a squadron of dragonflies.

P1050517I got the idea from ‘Queen Bead’ Nia at The Bead Hold and you can get a copy of the instructions on her How to page.   You will need:

  • P10505192m 28 gauge wire
  • wire cutters
  • 11 x #8 seed beads (body)
  • 2 x #8 seed beads (eyes)
  • 22 x #11 seed beads (body)
  • 80 dark delica beads
  • 90 mid tone delica beads
  • 90 lighter tone delica beads

If you have been following my earlier posts, you will have gathered that I have quite a thing for dragonflies.  So the hardest thing for me was to choose what colour dragonfly I wanted – and you can tell by the results that I couldn’t really choose at all and wanted to try lots of different combinations.  I won’t repeat Nia’s instructions here as they are free and really easy to follow, but I will show you some of the steps along the way.


The results are fabulous and you can use them in so many ways.  I glued brooch backs onto them using a strong bead glue.  They look great by themselves or you could combine them with other items to make a larger jewellery piece such as the wire rings shown. I’ve kept these as brooches but you could add a bail and a chain and make a fabulous necklace.

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The dragonflies have been great little extras to add to gifts.  For one birthday where I wasn’t supposed to be giving a gift (but I couldn’t help myself), I made some ANZAC biscuits (the birthday is on ANZAC Day) and pinned a dragonfly brooch to the ribbon.


For another birthday, I used a dragonfly card and pinned a dragonfly brooch with the same tonings in the centre of the dragonfly.

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Filed Under: Craftroom, Gift Ideas, Jewellery Tagged With: Dragonfly, Jewellery Techniques

Comments

  1. Sandrina Huish says

    August 8, 2018 at 11:36 am

    Wow Sue, the beaded Dragon Fly’s are stunning!!

    Reply
    • sue says

      August 15, 2018 at 6:11 pm

      Thanks Sandrina – they were fun to make too 🙂

      Reply

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