Pinwheel cabochons
 

Anyone know of a tutorial for making a colorful pinwheel design on a cabochon?
(kind of like swirls of different colors spiraling into the middle of the bead)

Not sure if this is what you are looking for??

http://www.agiliti8.com/stripedcabs.pdf

Ann, that's the tut I thought of immediately, too, and couldn't find the link since I changed computers. Thanks for posting it!

Thanks! I think that might be the setup. Then put a stringer in the middle and give it a twist so all the stripes spiral around to the center.
I'll give it a try today.

I made that tut years ago. I'm glad it's still around and useful ��

It is really a great tut, thanks for sharing it!

Great tutorial, but didn't get the result I was looking for by inserting a stringer and twisting. I'm going to try to heat the center and pull/twist to make a swirl, then reshape.

Would love to see pictures even the ones that weren't exactly what you were thinking. I haven't tried this yet, but it's certainly on my todo list.

Lonerp - thanks for tutorial!!!

Frit Diva - your welcome :).

Jeri beads might have a tutorial. Her buttons are amazing!

I think you mean Jari Sheese, and I agree her work is lovely! One little letter difference between us, although we share an addiction to Puffy Mandrels! Jeri

No, not Jari's. I did take a class from her though. She's amazing and a really nice person.

Keoki you can do a spiral by offsetting your dots evenly around the bead. Not sure if this is what you want but here is one I did. This is a disk bead tho.

Yes thank you :)

Joe at Avenue Beads just came up w/one
http://www.avenuebeads.com/lampwork-...chons-tutorial

The idea of not having to use a cab mandrel really appeals to me.

Are you thinking something like this?

Or this? This is what the striped cab looks like twisted.

Kinda like the lavender one. I'm trying to find a picture of the one I saw that I loved.

Lezlie, those are wonderful.

Thank you Phill ;)

Oh oh oh Look at the buttons posted by "Kartwheel" in the Gallery 3/25. That's exactly what I'm trying to make. So....Kartwheel, do you have a tutorial I can purchase on your technique? They are beautiful!!!!

Hi Keoki,

Thanks very much. I'm sorry, I don't have a tutorial, but check out the Avenue Beads tutorial. From the picture it looks like the swirly cab is very similar to what I've done, but I can't say for sure since I only have his shards tuts (they're fabulous, highly recommended).