Help me make a flip-flop charm entirely out of beads!

June 11, 2006 9:02 PM

My mother received a cute flip-flop beadwork craft as a gift and will give me a whole dollar (ooh, ahh) if I found out how to make it or found instructions that make sense.

The craft is a little flip-flop charm made of tiny beads and fishing line.

Pictures of the flip-flop can be found here:
http://www.scottjung.net/blogimages/Image001.jpg
http://www.scottjung.net/blogimages/Image002.jpg

I can't give you my dollar if you find me instructions, but you will receive my (and my mother's) ultimate gratitude!

posted by beammeup4 to media & arts (3 comments total)

You could probably find a pattern along the right lines here. I googled for "beadwork charm pattern". It would definitely fall under beadwork and/or jewellery-making if you were at a craft store.
posted by tracicle at 9:21 PM on June 11, 2006

nope, looked there and didn't find it
posted by beammeup4 at 9:41 PM on June 11, 2006

The stitch is known as right angle weave with some additional embellishment. Basic instructions here and here
And here's the master of right angle weave
posted by slowstarter at 10:31 PM on June 11, 2006