Carpet part 2
Okay, my strip is now about 2.5″ wide. I have used nearly 1/3 of these beads; I have about 100g of them. To use all of the same bead, I should be less than 1/4 into my stash of this color. Much less — I have another 3.5″ to go. SO. I have very, very…
Today at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts
It’s such a treat to have a great museum like MIA in my city, and free — then I can go and enjoy a few of the galleries, spending an hour, and not feel guilty or like I should spend more time. I get more out of a museum experience when I don’t spend so…
Lisa Call, textile artist
I really am a bead person as far as whom I read and follow online, with a couple notable exceptions. Lisa Call is one of them, an artist of abstract contemporary textile art. She hand-dyes her own fabric, and creates all her pieces one piece at a time (no strip quilting). Lisa creates both large…
Button necklace
I was scanning the book Bead Journey, a Kalmbach stringing publication, and saw a project stringing large tagua nuts shaped as buttons. It was a belt, connected with long loops of beading wire covered by rubber tubing. The tagua beads reminded me of these bone large-hole buttons that I bought more than 20 years ago…
Torso – part 2
I put down the easier part of the project for a bit, the carpet, and worked some today on the torso. I’ve built in the beginning of arms; now to continue the shoulders, neck, and attach the completed head. I’m not 100% confident I like the scale, it may be just a touch too small…