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French pumpkin herringbone complete, again
The herringbone rope sample that I decided to not use in my trio of ropes has been lengthened to 20″, a length I can wear as a necklace or wrapped three times around my wrist. It is now, finally, time to put these beads away. I have a new traveling project that includes beads and crochet,…
French pumpkin herringbone necklace complete
This makes me very happy. This is a project I’ve been beading on and off since last May, mostly as a traveling project as herringbone ropes are great for that. The necklace is 26″ long; the inner rope is four-around herringbone with stripes, the center rope is six-around herringbone with diagonal stripes, and the outer rope…
French pumpkin herringbone options and 2017
I still love to bead – and/but I’m developing more interests. I’ve tried a lot of things this summer and onward, and they generally are still textile arts; I stitched a tiny bit of sashiko embroidery noodling around in an embroidery class. Not complete. I took a class on coiled basketry (from Sandra Brick!). Not complete.…
French pumpkin herringbone trio
This is the trio of ropes I’m working on to highlight this pumpkin bead color dear to my heart. I had originally thought I would have more 4-around solid color non-pumpkin ropes to intersperse, but I like these three together. I will likely string the ropes on a stringing medium to get the arch of…
Bead shopping at the thrift store
This was strung on elastic, these wonderful blue and green beads. I had a clasp from a bracelet I took apart (I don’t trust elastic), and now I have this understatement of a bracelet.