My finished project☺...and a tutorial review

Ok, so I showed you this earlier in the week

Well..... I finished it☺

YAY!

And it didn't take me six months☺

On the more complicated projects,

I have a tendency to

a) lose interest and set it aside

or

b) get distracted by another project 

and forget about it for a while.

Usually b☺
A few weeks ago I saw a picture of this bracelet on facebook
 with a link to the tutorial 

I bought the tutorial and
 ordered the beads and got to work.
The tutorial was very easy to follow

 

even for a novice beader like me.

According to the tutorial the tension on the last couple of steps

needed to be pretty tight in order for the last rows to sit right.

No matter how hard I tried I could not get it to

sit right.

I'm going to chalk that up to my lack of experience

and not the pattern, at least until I make another.

 (which I will ~ there are so many gorgeous colors of these triangle beads☺)

 

My solution for getting the bottom to sit right.

Tube beads☺

This keeps the last row from flipping up.

The tutorial also called for a slide closure with 2 loops,

all I had was a three looper and that was easy enough to 

adjust for.

And when it was all done it felt a little snug to me

so I re-did the closure end, I made it a little bit longer

and added a couple of the larger beads so that

that section of the bracelet didn't look all wimpy

compared to the rest.

 

It is a very "substantial" bracelet.

But it really is gorgeous.

And considering how complex it looks, it did work up relatively quickly.

Relatively.

It really is mind boggling to me how people 

can come up with these patterns out of the blue.

It is a real talent and this pattern is totally worth the price.