My 1st peyote cab & multistitch necklace

Just finished this tonight, my 1st attempt at peyoting around a cab, I ripped it to pieces once & swore a little bit but it came out nicely in the end. The neckstrap is made with tubular raw, beaded beads & spiral rope. It's quite an adventurous piece for me & I enjoyed making, I have a few new ideas from it too I think.

Sarah.

I've been catching up with the photo's, here's a herringbone pendant for the YOJ theme Pheonix & Dragons, a pair of earrings for the YOJ theme Bronze Beauty & A right angle weave necklace. I seem to be on a right angle weave obsession after reading the article about beading small components in beadwork mag. I tend to flit from stitch to stitch so hopefully I may develop my skill a bit further by using one stitch for several pieces, maybe I should try and do a series, not sure I'm up to the committment though.

If you haven't already, check out Diana Grygo's blog The Lone Beader to see how her bus is coming along, hi Diana! Also vote for her work in the Saatchi gallery, I want her to win so that I can go see her work in London!

Sarah.

I finally got the latest Beadwork magazine on Sunday, it was worth the wait,there are some beautiful projects in it. I particularly enjoyed Marcia de Costa's article about beading small components & these earrings are one of the results. The photo was taken with our new camera, hopefully pictures will improve as we learn more about using it, the detail of the stitching shows up pretty well though I think.

Sarah.

Back from holiday!

We just spent a very relaxing week in West Wales, I did some beading but not what I planned (now why am I not surprised, no pics yet though 'cos we are waiting for a new camera, hopefully we'll get it tomorrow. We were lucky enough to get to visit the Welsh National Botanical Gardens near Carmarthen, http://www.gardenofwales.org.uk/, it's a beautiful place even in dull weather, here are a few pictures I took.

No pics, 'cos the bird did not work well.I like the shape & the colours were fine, the beading was okay with the 15's but I only had 11's in one of the colours & that did not work at all. I will be buying some 15's in the correct colours & try again. In the meantime I have 50grammes of shiney lime delicas that are burning a hole in my bead drawer! I've had them for years & just haven't decided what to do with them yet but I quite like the idea of using them with black 11's for a twist like this http://sarahshandcrafts.blogspot.com/2007/04/herringbone-twist-finally-done.html, not sure yet though. I also have some 15's in lilac & white so may try a flower brooch instead of the bird.

Sarah.

Twisted ndebele ribbon necklace.

I finished this today, I've been wanting to try this variation of herringbone from Carol Wilcox Wells book the Art & Elegance of Beadweaving, ever since the book came out. I thought it would take ages though so never bothered, it actually didn't take as long as I thought, it was much quicker than the other twists I've done. I enjoyed the technique but visually I prefer the contrasting colours in the other 2 twists. I will be buying some beads later so I now know to purchase some high contrast colours, I better go grab Margie Deebs book before I shop.

Hopefully my next finished object will be a bead embroidered folk art style bird, fingers crossed it works out.

Sarah.