Wow, tomorrow will be my 1 year blogiversary. The year has gone so quickly, I can barely believe it! I started out with such good intentions of being a regular and insightful blogger, lol, it did not take me long to realise that I would be lucky if I could blog once a week on a regular basis.
I have been having a think about what I want the blog to be, at the moment it is a sporadic record of completed work that I can be bothered to photograph and I'm not really satisfied with that, so at least I know what I don't want it to be, that's a start. I think I'll start trying to include some of my favourite things and what I like about them & maybe do a few personal challenges where I can document the failures & successes of a project, those two things are probably enough to start out with.
This flower is the 1st in a series of flower pins that I am making for the many young women in my family for Christmas, 1 down 9 to go, yikes! I used the pattern by Louise Smith which appears in Dec/Jan 07 Beadwork. It is made with peyote stitch using my absolute favourite delica colour DB029 and size 11's miyuki 352. I enjoyed the pattern very mush, it took a while but was well worth it this little flower really glows in real life, I will be sad to give it away at Christmas, I do have the beads to make one for myself though, but after 10 I may not ever want to make another one again!
I have 2 beaded projects on the o at the moment, another flower for which I have slightly changed the shape of the petals and a challenge project for the UK beaders forum 10 bead challenge.
Don't forget to stop by tomorrow, there may be a little something up for grabs to celebrate my 1st year of blogging!
Sarah.
1 comment:
I really love beaded flowers and your brooch is beautiful. I can't believe you are going to make 10 of them! The colors in this one are great.
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