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Bead Around the World 2012
A lot of people had conflicts this year, so our group was only five beaders. In Bead Around the World, everyone makes a start bead, and the other beaders make a bead to complement that bead, to the originator’s specifications. Here are the start beads: And here’s what I made to go with these beads:…
Beading for a Cure 2013, step 1
So where am I going with this? This could perhaps become a pendant – three or so rows above the bead scoop shape is a built-in hole where this can be strung, perhaps on a velvet ribbon. Hanging inside the shape, and framed by the matte metallic café au lait color will be some of…
In memory of Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak, award-winning children’s author, died today at 83. He is perhaps best known for Where the Wild Things Are, where Max sails in and out of a day to where the Wild Things are. Once upon a time, I was going to make a vignette of Max’s room as the walls turn to trees.…
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,…
Beaded Gerbera daisy
I had the opportunity lately to make a Gerbera daisy, as seen in many bead blogs. I had one rivoli on hand, and it turns out that brandy is a perfect color for a flower center, especially when framed by gold charlottes! I don’t know where instructions for this are published; I just gave it…