Co-worker bead gifts
I often make beaded gifts for co-workers; this year’s gift is Gwen Fisher’s spinning top bead, intended as a small Christmas ornament, but it could certainly be a glitzy pendant.
Christmas snowflake
Every year, I add a new snowflake to my Christmas tree. Since I started beading, most of those snowflakes are ones I’ve made. This year, as typical, I was making the snowflake Christmas eve. And also typically, I grabbed beads and put them together however they seem to want to go together.
Christmas presents decoded
These are Diane Fitzgerald’s Baubles from Shaped Beadwork. It’s a really interesting shape; I’ve modified it by adding a row of beads and zipping them together in three places. I have no idea what the name is for this shape, if there is one. I put embroidery floss through the loops, with the intent that…
Christmas presents, unassembled
Looks like a blue dog, doesn’t it? This is the same thing, tweaked another way. Double triangles? I’ll show them assembled after Christmas! They don’t look anything like the finished pieces.
Beads at the 2012 Joint Mathematics Meetings Exhibition
I took a quick look through the artwork that has been accepted into the 2012 JMM Exhibition. There are beads! This exhibition will be held in the exhibit hall in the Hynes Convention Center in Boston during the January 4-7, 2012. The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) and the American Mathematical Society (AMS) are the hosting…