Woven, Fringed, and Braided Wrap Belt
In a social media ad, targeted I’m sure, I saw an add for a wrapped leather belt. There’s a gently curved wider leather center section, which you wrap like a cummerbund, and bring the narrower end sections to the front to tie, twist, or whatever. Hmm. Maybe I can weave that. In my planning, I…
Surface Design: Traditions & Techniques in Beading, and Beaded Surfaces
The Surface Design Association’s Winter 2022 journal issue celebrated “Traditions & Techniques in Beading,” with beautiful cover art by Catherine Blackburn. To complement the issue, Studio Art Quilts Associates (SAQA) hosted a Textile Talk with Anette Millington and Sébastien Carré. Millington speaks of her class at the Parsons MFA program on beading material and meaning,…
Textured Gold Column Earrings
Gold plated delicas are very eye-catching. These earrings are a modified square stitch to give them a little texture. They are about 2 inches long, and a gift for a friend.
Weaving the North at the North Suburban Center for the Arts
The North Suburban Center for the Arts in Fridley, Minnesota, is hosting Weaving the North in collaboration with the Scandinavian Weavers Study Group of the Weavers Guild of Minnesota. I recently visited, and these are some of the works displayed. The breadth of styles shown is exciting, and the work is beautiful. The pin loom…
Fossilized Coral Cabochon
This has been a project in process for years. For no easily definable reason, I never finished this fossilized coral necklace. A number of years ago, I received an email or a print advertisement from my local lapidary, and I loved the coral cab that they had used in something. I asked for them to…