-
Beading for a Cure auction time!
I’m sorry, I’ve been remiss — the auctions have begun for Beading for a Cure! Beading for a Cure is a project where beaders purchase the same kit of beads, sight unseen, and create something using at least one of every bead, plus only one added bead (but added non-beads are fine). All proceeds after…
-
Bead blog additions
Here’s a few more, added to this blogroll, and my own feed reader: Beads and me (micromacrame and beads) abalorium2.0 Mina smycken Unintentionally, these are all Spanish beaders….
-
Tila bracelet experiment
So, here’s some Tila experimenting I’ve been doing. I like the design! Ignore the (lack of) clasp. This makes, I believe, 3 bracelets sitting here waiting for clasp inspiration. Try this image, instead: Looks complete in this one!
-
Installation at the Weisman
As you enter the Weisman Art Museum on campus of the University of Minnesota, this is what is directly to the left of the main desk: Walk around the wall and look straight right, and you see this: Back up and get a wider view, and this is what you see: Still further back: And…
-
Swirl beaded basket
Pretty thing, isn’t it? Last summer, when I took a class from Diane Fitzgerald, she gave us these instructions that are in the April/May Beadwork magazine. This is the piece that I made at that time; I knew they were going to be in Beadwork, so I waited to post this. The beads are Italian,…