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Lace leaf chain, part one
I’ll be working on a larger project in the near future, so decided to enjoy a smaller project while I’m waiting for those beads to arrive. Here’s the first 2″ or so of a lace leaf chain, from Diane Fitzgerald’s Zulu Inspired Beadwork. I have a pendant I will be adding to this. I’m not…
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New blogs again
Here’s some more added to the blogroll: Wild Wicked Beads Orsina alkotásai Bandrea gyöngyei There’s a whole lot of great Hungarian beaders who blog!
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Vintage German flowers
Sylvia came back from Tucson with a gift for me of these amazing beads. The core colors are varying shades of orange, with a milky-colored-glass covering, and while I believe these are pressed, not cut — they appear cut. Look at the glow! I tried combining them with a matching Italian milky-white seed, it looked…
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Diane Fitzgerald author lunch
I just had an enjoyable lunch listening to Diane Fitzgerald speak at the Textile Center. Diane is the author of eleven books, and from a family of women all adept with a needle. She spoke of how she would admire other beautiful things in different techniques, think of perhaps trying them, and just as quickly…
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Diane Fitzgerald at the Textile Center
For those of you in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, Diane is the featured author at an author bag lunch at the Minnesota Textile Center on February 23rd, noon to 1pm. Her most recent book is Shaped Beadwork: dimensional jewelry with peyote stitch. I should be able to attend; I’ll bring my copy and have…