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.

Nice necklace, shame about the picture

I have to admit that I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the quality of my pictures. This necklace is very pretty irl & the pic makes it look a bit blah. I guess I need to take some time to really practise & get a decent set up but the free time I have I want to actually bead. Oh well, can't have it both ways. Have a great bank holiday weekend!

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.

Some Spiral Ropes

Someone on a forum I frequent asked what our favourite stitches were. I decided on spiral rope because it is super quick, easy & can be varied to create a lot of different looks. Here are a few of the spiral ropes I have made. A necklace in silver lined aqua and lilac with a murano glass bead & some swarovski crystals, a chunky red rope using s/l red ab 11's & 4mm miyuki cubes, a bracelet using a mix of accent beads & a necklace in teals using alternating sets of outer beads which include triangles & size 11's, I also used easy beaded beads in this one & finished with a tassel.

Birthday gift

I made this for a friends birthday & I am happy to say she loved it. It's a simple spiral rope with a petite flower pendant from Bead & Button (can't find the issue ). The colour combination really stands out irl & works well with the simplicity.

Hmm, can't believe I've left it so long to post. I've got quite a lot of stuff to photograph but for now I'll catch up with stuff I should have posted earlier.
Here's my FSOJ week 2 piece, Mother Earth, Father Sky, next up my FSOJ week one piece, Season of Earth & my set for the Bead & Button Forum Monochromatic Seed Bead Challenge, Forever Fandango.

Spiral Rope Bracelet

Spiral Rope Bracelet
Originally uploaded by sarahjt1.

Here's a very quick & simple spiral rope bracelet I made last night using Size 11's, size 8's & cube beads, the beaded beads on the end are simple wrapped beads. I love spiral rope, it is so versatile & quick to make.
I shouldn't really have made it though as I have a lot of other stuff to do,a bracelet for a forum swap, a victorian & variations style necklace in brown & gold that's in progress, I have just signed up to FSOJ 06/07 so I need to start thinking about that & I have also just signed up to do a victorian style necklace for another forum challenge. I think I'll try to design my own for the victorian challenge, I've got some lovely white opalish seed beads & moonstone rounds that I think will be nice for it.