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      Its been a long time, I know am such a lazy blogger, and I keep repeating it over and over without any improvement, lol...... you just have to take me as I am, have been so preoccupied with a lot of things recently.
   

Russian Spiral/Four line Spiral

        

          

        Russian Spiral and four line spiral  are designs with different bead weaving technique. Both designs are usually appealing. The appearance of the designs changes depending on the shapes and sizes of the beads you select.
      Russian Spiral is a variant of tubular netting, its a very good stitch for beginners, its easy to learn and it stitches up very quickly.
   By mixing and matching colors you will be able to use the bead weave patterns for any project you please.

      There have been argument among beaders in recent times about the difference between Russian spiral and Four line spiral, most people doesnt know the difference, some even confuse the two for each other, Russian spiral and Four line spiral are very identical, you cant even tell the difference some times, especially if Russian spiral is the same counting with Four line spiral.

       In Russian spiral, the beads used both the dominant ( smaller beads beads) and the non- dominants ( the bigger beads)which  are closely packed together.

       The Four line spiral  design as the name implies, four strands of fishing line are used.

         Am quite familiar with the two identical stitches, have done a quite number of spirals using the two stitches,  having studied the stitches,  I prefer working with Russian spiral, I realize that Russian spiral is less stressful unlike four line spiral that requires all your energy,   most times four line spiral easily get muddled up cause of the use of four line, it get tangled sometimes, the use of the four line might even get someone confused, making you pick the wrong fishing while working. its much stressful than Russian spiral at the same time a funny design,in the sense that two fishing line are kept in your mouth and the other two fishing lines  are kept in hand for a start but as time goes on, you will have  to work with both hands and legs.

   Russian spiral is a versatile stitch,  it can accommodate any number of beads, you can change the way you want it to look like, you can decide how big you want your spiral to be, by increasing the numbers of beads in the base row, that is not the same for four line spiral, it has a certain number of beads required for each step, any other counting apart from the required one will give you a loosed and ugly spiral work. 

Here is a Tutorial on Russian spiral. 
Materials Needed:
1.  Size 1 seed beads.            A
2.  Size 6 crystal beads.        B
3.  Beading Needle.
4.  0.30 fishing line.

******I will refer to the beads as A & B respectively*********
All beading supplies are available at any bead shop near you.



1. Cut a comfortable Fishing line and attach your beading needle. 
2.  Pick up 1A bead and 1B bead, three times respectively,  slide them down to the end of the fishing line.
3. Stitch through all the beads to form a ring. 
4. Exit from one of the A beads, Pick up 1B bead and 5A beads, and stitch your needle through the next A bead in the ring.
5.  Repeat step 4.
6.  To step up, pick 1B bead and 5A bead, then stitch your needle into the first A bead after the B bead picked in step 4.
7.  keep picking 1B bead and 5A beads and stitch through the first A bead after the B beads in the previous step till you have your desired length.

For tutorials on Four line spiral, click here


Here are some Russian spiral designs:

Neck bead is Russian spiral, the earrings is made with four line.

Here  are some designs done with Four line.

There are really no difference between the two stitches. 

Do you prefer Russian Spiral to Four line spiral? state your reason in the comment section.

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                                      Tomisin.

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     Open your Mind to Possibilities and You’ll be amazed by what you are capable of achieving. We are powerful beyond measure. May the Almighty God balance the equation for you and me this new Month and the Lord shall make everything perfect in your life. May almighty father bless us with More creative ideas, success, blessing, joy, happiness, favour, grace and greatness in all of our endeavour,  I welcome you into the month of July. The month of perfection, financial fortune and uplifting.

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Look beyond Macrame......Think beads

           A friend posted some beautiful bags made with twines and cord in a beading  Watsapp group which I belong to, everybody was thrilled, I was Very surprise, how on earth can you make such beautiful bags with twine and cord, am so amazed that a simple knot can make beautiful and interesting things, so I decided to research more on it, and I realised that we can also make this knots with beaded ropes too.

    Macrame is the art and craft of tying cords into knots in such a way that they form a useful or decorative shape,  macrame can be tried by anyone with passion to create with little or no experience,  its an old craft work that can be traced back to early fourteenth century, this same old knotting craft done with twines and cords is making a dramatic come back in our beaded Jewelry,  all you just need is to master the simple knot techniques. 

    I wont be writing tutorials on how to make knots, I just want you to know that you can do anything if you put your heart to it,  just watch out for those tiny little sparks of inspiration, I was inspired by macrame knotting technique to make this neckpiece, its so simple,  I make my beaded rope and I made use of the lark head knotting pattern to make my knot, see the picture after the cut.

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