Dulcey Heller

Category: Color

  • BEad Inspired design contest from Whimbeads

    I am one of many, many participants in the BEad Inspired design contest from Whimbeads. Beki, proprietress and beader extraordinaire, made kits we bought sight unseen, inspired by pictures of the seasons. By July 1st, I am to create something from my “Fall” kit. One of the rules is that I am to share no…

  • A gratuitous red post for Valentine’s Day

    This is what normal people do, right? Start cutting up radishes for a salad, and then realize that you have pretty much that exact red in a vintage red seed bead. This is a spectacular red!

  • Rug palette

    I’ve done this a few times, where I take a picture of a rug (usually), and build a palette using its colors. Sometimes I make something with that palette, but not always. This rug is from the Iowa Old Capitol in Iowa City, Iowa. The University of Iowa campus is built around the building, which…

  • Failure in pink

    Actually, I discovered two ways that don’t work for a beaded bead. I think I can probably find more! I like the dodecahedron, but I can barely wedge the needle into the 8s. I can’t fight it for all the rest of the sides.

  • Bead Around the World 2012

    A lot of people had conflicts this year, so our group was only five beaders. In Bead Around the World, everyone makes a start bead, and the other beaders make a bead to complement that bead, to the originator’s specifications. Here are the start beads: And here’s what I made to go with these beads:…