The Beader’s calendar: August jewel!

The SOLEIL pendant tutorial by our dear friend-designer, Chloe Menage, is the August jewel of the Beader’s Calendar by Beadingschool.

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With the Beader’s Calendar, you receive a luxury quality calendar to hang on the wall, with 12 projects you can bead during the year, designed by the Beadingschool Creative Team (Erika, Zuzi, Veronka), and our friends – designers: Heather Kingsley-Heath, Anita Schackmann, Chloe Menage, Ruxandra Puscas, and more! 🧵🪡 On the first Monday, the tutorial becomes available for the month’s jewel, so today is the time for the second one already. If you don’t have the Calendar yet, you can get it here.  Once you check out successfully, you can download the Serena for July, Roxanne for June, Spring in Bloom for May,  Magnolia tutorial for April,  Casablanca tutorial for March,  Inception tutorial for February and the Hint of Light tutorial for January right away – just make sure to remain logged into your account. The Calendar will land on your bead mat very soon!

GET TO KNOW THE DESIGNER

Chloe Menage is a UK-based designer who creates vibrant and whimsical beadwoven designs in a riot of colours. She has a passion for colour and sparkle – and for sharing her love of beading with others! Her favourite stitches are peyote, RAW and CRAW, and she loves to work with seed beads, shaped beads and crystals.

As an experienced jewellery designer, Chloe has been a Guest Designer on the JewelleryMaker TV shopping channel and was previously editor of popular publication Bead & Jewellery magazine. She has also popped in to join Erika on #NoOneHasToBeadAlone on several occasions.

ABOUT THE SOLEIL PENDANT 

When designing this project Chloe was inspired by art deco sunburst patterns and she wanted to incorporate her love of bright summer colours. The finished piece reminds her of a holiday in Greece.

In this tutorial you’ll discover how to bezel a 14mm Rivoli using GemDuos, pearls and seed beads, before adding a lacy edging interspersed with ‘rays’ of daggers. The pendant looks just as pretty on the back as the front!

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MATERIAL LIST for one motif (double for pair):

• 1 x 14mm Preciosa rivoli or round glass cabochon
• 8 x 5×8 mm Gemduo glass beads
• 8 x 5×16 mm 2-hole dagger
• 24 x 3 mm round glass beads
• 15/0 Miyuki Seed beads
• 11/0 Miyuki Seed beads

Summertime – the original color combination.

Vitrail Light – refreshing pink and turquoise tones.

SEE THE BEAD BUNDLES!

Chloe has been teaching her colourful projects for more than 15 years and regularly teaches beading workshops around the world virtually from her home studio.  She is loved by her students for her fun and informal classes, her clear, well-written patterns and her patient teaching style.

All of Chloe’s kits, patterns and virtual classes can be found through her brand Pinkhot Jewellery.

We have Face to Face interview when she responded to our questions, in 2021 and it’s really fun to read. Later she started to cooperate with Beadingschool at some projects and you can choose and bead her jewels also from the Designer Zone.

We’re very happy Chloe has been designer Beadingschool cooperate with for some time already. She’s very kind, full of life and colors that inspires us to see the world around differently.