Soft Flex Trios Beading Contest
Monday, May 18, 2009 at 10:46AM 
The Soft Flex company, makers of Soft Flex beading wire, is holding a beading contest to promote their new line called Trios. The main qualification for entry is that you must create a design project that uses and showcases all three wire colors in any of the Trios packages. Click here to read all of the rules and entry information. The deadline to enter is September 1, 2009 (see the beadjewelry.net Google calendar for this and other entry deadlines.)
Trios are sets of three spools of flexible beading wire in bright, coordinating colors. The colors appear to come from the nylon coating (which wraps around bundles of steel cable, as I'm sure you remember from Teach Yourself Visually Jewelry Making & Beading . . . ). ;)
Each set has a name that matches the mood of its color scheme. For example, here's the Trio called "Serenity":
I haven't seen Trios in person yet, but from what I can tell, they look gorgeous. Now, the trick to using these is that you need to leave at least some space between at least some beads in your design - to allow the beading-wire color to show through. Because these are flexible beading wires (not solid metal wire), you typically achieve this by attaching crimps before and after beads.
Can you come up with other ways to use Trios? It might be possible to braid them between beads, for example. I noticed that in one example on the Soft Flex site they're actually used to make a tassel. If you think you have a truly unique idea for Trios, you should consider entering the contest to show it off!
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Tip: Try using the Magical Crimp Forming tool to make rounded crimps between beads.
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