Shark Fin Earrings

I learnt circular peyote last week so I did not really concentrate on planning a design for week 17 YOJ project, but at about 8.00pm last night it hit me, circles with a 'fin' on one side. I used these colours to coordinate with a favourite shirt but I am thinking they'd look good in clashing bright also.

Apart from these wire wrap clip on's I haven't completed much this week, I am learning circular peyote stitch, which I picked up ok but is a little slow at the moment, kind of fun, hopefully I will have a finished project soon. Of course I should not be faffing about with a new stitch because I should be either working on my week 17 year of jewellery piece which is due tomorrow & I have no clue what I am going to do, or I should be making 2 other spiral rope bracelets as I made a personal committment to make a series of five within 1 month, I guess I still have 2 weeks though. Oh & I have a few birthday presents to make & I wanted to make something to send off for the Bead Magazine Gallery. I need a to do list!

Herringbone Twist Finally Done!

I seriously thought this necklace would never be finished! I am so slow at this stitch. The pendant started out as a medallion from Suzanne Coopers Victorian & Variations, I peyoted around it for 3 rows than added two rows of netting, increasing the no of beads in the 2nd row to create a frill (which doesn't really show on the pic).

Sarah

Spiral 2 - the spicy version.

I've decided to do a series of spiral rope bracelets, experimenting with colour & texture. Here is number 2, very unusual colour choices from me but I really love it! I used miyuki 11's and a colour mix from The Bead Merchant size 6 I think. I like the contrast of the plainer rope in between the mix versions. In other beady news, I actually picked up the slowest necklace in the universe and dd another couple of inches, yippee!

The 2 hour bracelet

I have been stuck in a bit of a rut with my seed beads lately, my colour combo for a planned beaded bead necklace was not working for me & the herringbone twist necklace I am making in brown & turquoise is so slow it's sending me to sleep. So last night I pulled out a couple of tubes & decided to make a nice simple spiral bracelet. I used silver-lined crystal 11's & colour lined purple triangles with some easy wrapped beads using swarovski pearls as a base. I am really happy with it, the simple colour combo is very striking and the focal beads add a nice touch I think.

Week 15 of YOJ - Earrings

Copper & sterling silver earrings with swarovski bicones. I made the earwires myself! I am very proud!

Technical issues

I am having problems uploading pics to my pc. This is particularly annoying since I was actually intending to be a good blogger & write a post about our day out today. I even took photos as we went along, how very organised of me! Oh well, soon hopefully.