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Sig Wynne-Evans’ tassel contest
Sig Wynne-Evans is hosting a contest, with prizes from her shop, Out on a Whim, ArtBeads, and Amazing Porcelain. Make one of her tassels, using one of her kits — or her instructions and your own beads — and you could win a prize! Projects are due by February 11th. Here’s the full list of…
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Ceramic bead necklace
Originally, I was thinking of hanging the bead vertical, with perhaps black teardrop beads hanging beneath the ceramic bead, capped by the bead cap. After looking at the proportions, I liked it more with the bead horizontal. Also, the pink/red beads appear to be more of an accent this way, rather than dominating the design.…
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Ceramic bead hats
I’m hoping the final necklace looks better than these “hats!” I was thinking of those bead balls when I made this; trying to make half a bead ball. That obviously didn’t work. With this one, I was hoping to get it to lay more flush to the ceramic bead, but instead I get this floppy…
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Weekend project, completed
I think I like it. I don’t like this side as much. I made it first, and I thought I’d like the line of pink charlottes between the blue Swarovski more than I actually do.
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BFAC 2011, step 3
Maybe. If I decide I like this, I need to make 4 more. They will be used with tension, which should smooth out the oval around the cab. I simply kept adding beads, and now it’s more ornate than my typical beadwork. The advantage of ornate is that I’ve used all the required beads except…