Crop art at the 2010 Minnesota State Fair
I keep meaning to share a few of the pictures I took of the crop art at this year’s Minnesota State Fair. For those of you unfamiliar with it, crop art uses the seeds of various crops and glues them to a surface to make an image. The queen of crop art was Lillian Colton,…
Green pendant, finished
Back in July, I blogged about purchasing an unidentified green pendant, which I think is gaspeite. Catherine Bond volunteered to make a kumihimo braid to make the rope from which to hang it. Here it is! Works great, don’t you think? She did a great job of making something that really suits the pendant without…
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Palawan toggle?
Remue-ménage recently published a design on her blog entitled Palawan, a very sleek-looking 4-around herringbone that encapsulates larger beads. Her instructions are here. The diagrams are plenty, if you’re like me and don’t speak French. Below is my attempt — which I may or may not use — to make the ring part of a…
Beadwork — at a train museum?
The Tower-Soudan Historical Society Historical Center in Tower, MN (train sounds play on launch), is housed in a depot and notably has a steam locomotive, a caboose, and a coach car that can be rented for events. In the Depot are artifacts from the area, which includes beadwork from area tribes, likely Anishinaabeg. These are…