Remembering Cindy Etsy shop – last chance!
The Etsy shop is closing on Sunday, February 15th. This is your last chance for a lovely beaded art doll, or your own set of postcards of this project, started by Cindy McCornack, and finished by her friends from the Bead Art Forum. All proceeds are going to the American Lung Association. Thank you!
One year of blogging
This blog is now one year old! It was an offshoot of redesigning my website, and I’ve been fairly regularly adding posts since inception. I’ve enjoyed it more than I suspected I would — I have never kept any sort of written journal before, but this seems to work for me. Blogging has kept me…
Cabled herringbone again
Okay, I should just follow instructions. Color me stubborn! But I love these beads, and wanted to give it a try – those beads on the edge are a great matte ab root beer brown. They’re too big, though, they really need to be the same size as the internal herringbone rows, the green beads. …
Cabled herringbone
The February 2009 issue of Bead & Button has instructions for cabled herringbone, designed by Rae Arlene Reller. Herringbone is one of my favorite stitches, and I found this very appealing, so I gave it a shot. The blue and purple are French 10’s, fat beads. I increased the width of the herringbone stitch by…
Quilt project – completed!
Here it is, all done! The color is more accurate on the first picture. The fin is brick stitch, attached to about 1/3 of its length, then it comes off the face of the beadwork and gives it some dimensionality. I’m satisfied, even with its flaws. I did improve on this technique and blending as…