I’ve done a little bit more. It’s going a bit slowly because of my available time and the beading itself. It takes some finessing to get the needle into the core beads. My tension should probably be looser.

I just love these colors used in the ceiling at the Naniboujou Lodge, which I wrote about here. I decided to make a double spiral rope using these colors. I wanted to use the bright colors more as an accent, to help it not be too overwhelming and busy. Here’s my first attempt — too…

This is my second piece of double spiral that I’ve done. For the first one, I did a single spiral, and then went back to add the second spiral. I tried doing both at once, but I couldn’t “see it” at first. I was able to do it in one pass this time, which works…

Okay, here’s a sample of the double spiral in process, the beads I got from Marilee that I wrote about here. I tried adding the triangles on the exterior occasionally, but they got lost. I bought this button at General Bead in San Francisco, hoping it would work. I don’t like buttons for clasps because…