Showing posts with label peyote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peyote. Show all posts

Thursday, July 18, 2013

My creative space - triangles and circles, running out and haning options.

A couple of weeks ago I showed you my circle beaded earrings.
I had started these red ones and they are a bit bigger than the original version.
I finished them with a larger size seed bead on the edge - so there are 3 sizes of beads - 15's, 11's, and 8's.
I'm pleased with the result - it's a nice size and has a good firm feel.



So off I set to make it's mate - but, Oh No!
I ran out of beads!
Gah! This is probably a common beaders mistake.
And now I'm trying to track down some more...otherwise I will have created a pendant instead!


Sooooo I need another project? Yes?

This time I wanted to create some puffy triangles to make into dangly earrings.

This idea must have been smushing around in my head because I rummaged through my beading magazines and voila! the perfect pattern was in Beadwork magazine.
It was actually a bracelet project, but perfectly adaptable to earrings.

I know how to make triangles but it was the double-sided puffiness that I needed to learn.



I like them!

So I made them in a few different colours and some different beads .


Now I can't decide how to string them.

This was my original vision - on a curved earwire.
Just simple.
But it doesn't really work as the bead doesn't hang straight and there is no "swing".


Is "swing" important for earrings?

If it is them I could attach a little head pin and then the hanging is more pleasing as well.


Or I could use these gunmetal kidney earwires.




What do you think?
Which style do you prefer?

Friday, July 29, 2011

My creative space

Back to more little beadiness this week.
Another portable beading project to play with while I was at Making Spaces Marketplace.
 




This was inspired by a newbook by Nancy Zellers "Bead Tube Jewelry" and some little wire bracelets I found while out supply shopping on Tuesday.

Peyote stich bead tubes are such fun to make and I was making up the patterns as I went, this involved a lot of frog stitch as well (you know "rippet-rippet" ?*)

What is in your creative space this week?

For more creative spaces or to join in, pop along here.

*the sound of stitches being ripped out when you make a mistake

Saturday, March 6, 2010

some little things this week

I feel that I havent been very productive lately.
Well at least it is a quiet time of year.

So I have been allowing myself to do some playing.
I was playing around with different beads in different colours in peyote and brick stitch, and I was going to make it into a pendant, when a friend asked was it a brooch?

*ping*

I added a vintage glass button, sewed on a brooch back and 'voila!'

- a brooch.



This set me to thinking that if I stitched a base of peyote stitch that is big enough to take a brooch pin and if I then added on segments of different stitches using different beads, I could drape and fold the pieces, sew them down and have a brooch with a flat back.

My first attempt - it is very free-form looking -


but there is definitely a possibility here.

Watch this space!
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