I have the attachment method working! I have soldered jump rings attached to the base of the flower, a little elastic for give, and another jump ring. This is sized for my right hand – the upper left loop is for my first finger, the upper right for my pinky. The big bottom loop wraps…

I haven’t had as much time to bead as I’d like, so there’s not a lot of progress on this piece. We had class this afternoon, and this is what I’m doing for the leaves: This is basically branch fringe, which I tame into this: There’s two lengths of fringe between every bead, except if…

Here’s my progress; class tonight! I think I have figured out how to attach it to my hand, but I haven’t progressed any further than gathering supplies and imagining it. I finally got the lightbox out for this picture, and I think the color is good. I didn’t do much tweaking to the photo, but…

There have been two class meets for this class, which I am taking with Diane Fitzgerald. For our second meet, we talked about ideas for our particular piece of hand jewelry (defined as something to wear on the back of the hand). One exercise she had us do is sketch a possible design for a…