This was a tutorial I wrote for Bead and Jewellery Magazine in 2017 - I've since used the beads I made for this tutorial. As I still have the PDF, I thought that I could put a link to it on the Caprilicious website and you might like to use it.
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And here's the link to the tutorial, should you wish to have a go yourself, have fun xx
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