Native beadwork
Beadwork in Minnesota is most often from the Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) tribe. During my recent trip, I saw only a little beadwork. Ute (Colorado) Paiute (Utah):
Petrified wood
I recently got back from a vacation to the western United States. This is one of three upcoming posts relating to that vacation. First, the most picture-intense post… I fell in love with the petrified wood ALL over the place in Escalante Petrified Forest State Park in Utah. Logs, stumps, branches, pieces — tumbled all…
Playing with lava
I bought some strands of lava beads from Rings and Things, and wanted to try a pendant (or something) with a few of them. Here are the results!
Double netting
Angelica, inspired by the flat double netting in Diane Fitzgerald’s Netted Beadwork, has created and written instructions for tubular double netting. I love the effect. She wrote her free instructions in German and English, and the blog post that details how to download them is here — the website requires full name and address to…
More stained glass pendants
Here are more pendants that Carol made for me. Again, the solder is lead-free. The top red and yellow wasn’t intended for the BFAC necklace currently waiting for me on my worktable. The rest were possibilities, and we got together and experimented with possible layouts. Then she took them home and soldered on the rings…