I had so much fun making the above "Outer Fringe" necklace. The fringe base is peyote and then I chose a thick braid for the neck design. I used lots of gemstones and vintage beads.
Jade and copper with a bone button closure. I wanted the green of the beads to match the green of the jade perfectly, but what we want and what we get are two different things.
Sculptural Peyote was the first stitch I learned many years ago and fell in love with it. Since day one I have used doubled
Silimide beading thread for all of my woven
beadwork. I took some master classes in
beadwork and jewelry construction and design and these teachers swore by it and that was good enough for me. Although, I will use
Fireline if I want a tubular form to hold its shape.
I have collected beads, plus odds and ends for years. I love old broken jewelry that I can take apart and incorporate into a beading design. And I like using old buttons with metal shanks for closures like in the one above.
Bad photo, I know, but the best I could do at the time. The focal bead was a Laura Liska (famous for her polymer clay Bargello beads and now for her color collections); great size, great colors. I did a free form design with "holes" that I filled with gemstones, pearls or crystals that picked up the bead colors. Two simple knots added the final detail to the neck area.
The final four are all about spring. Sometimes I use
lampworked beads (artist made, not machine) as focal points in my
beadwork and sometimes I use form or....
fringe with vintage beads and gemstones. The peyote closure is out of the picture below, but I did a small bit at the closure for the button and loop and then strung and wove the strands of glass beads and gemstones.
Today I'm working on finishing my polymer clay river rocks that were inspired by my trip to California.
I had so much fun making the above "Outer Fringe" necklace. The fringe base is peyote and then I chose a thick braid for the neck design. I used lots of gemstones and vintage beads.
Jade and copper with a bone button closure. I wanted the green of the beads to match the green of the jade perfectly, but what we want and what we get are two different things.
Sculptural Peyote was the first stitch I learned many years ago and fell in love with it. Since day one I have used doubled Silimide beading thread for all of my woven beadwork. I took some master classes in beadwork and jewelry construction and design and these teachers swore by it and that was good enough for me. Although, I will use Fireline if I want a tubular form to hold its shape.
I have collected beads, plus odds and ends for years. I love old broken jewelry that I can take apart and incorporate into a beading design. And I like using old buttons with metal shanks for closures like in the one above.
Bad photo, I know, but the best I could do at the time. The focal bead was a Laura Liska (famous for her polymer clay Bargello beads and now for her color collections); great size, great colors. I did a free form design with "holes" that I filled with gemstones, pearls or crystals that picked up the bead colors. Two simple knots added the final detail to the neck area.
The final four are all about spring. Sometimes I use lampworked beads (artist made, not machine) as focal points in my beadwork and sometimes I use form or....
fringe with vintage beads and gemstones. The peyote closure is out of the picture below, but I did a small bit at the closure for the button and loop and then strung and wove the strands of glass beads and gemstones.
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