Hi! My name's Jama and I've been designing beaded and wire jewelry for over twenty years and painting and sculpting for longer.
Showing posts with label seed beads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seed beads. Show all posts
Sunday, January 24, 2016
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
It's finished!
I don't usually push myself this close to a deadline, but I did this time. Today, I finished putting the final fringe on my entry into this year's Rings & Things "Your Designs Rock!" contest. I was going to enter another piece (and may still enter it - I took new photos), but this one got under my skin and I HAD to finish & enter it.As is my usual, I started off playing with new stitches. I previously blogged about getting The Art of Beaded Beads: Exploring Design, Color & Technique
edited by Jean Campbell. I've had more fun making the confetti beads and variations of my own beads that I often forgot that my wrists were hurting! It wasn't until I started making a pom pom bead that I had to breakdown and buy some painkillers. But, I'm really happy with the results. So, after I hit "Post" here, I'm off to fill out the online application and get her in.
I present "Having a Ball" featuring approx 20mm wood beads beaded in RAW with size 10/0 & 11/0 seed beads, the center bead is done the same way with fringe, small beaded beads using 6/0 & 11/0 seed beads and fringe & chain up the size in 8/0, 6/0, 10/0 and 11/0 seed beads. I luff me some seed beads.
Saturday, August 2, 2008
The Downward Spiral
Much of the time, I pick up a color palette and just start beading, not really sure where I'm headed. however, I just finished a huge project for Maker's Mark and desperately needed to do something besides bead embroidery. So, I got out the magazines and books and looked around.
I came across my copy of Mastering Beadwork by Carol Huber Cypher and looked through it. There was my inspiration on page 60, what Carol called the "Undulating Peyote Tube." I've seen versions of this stitch before and always wanted to try it.
Tubular peyote is pretty easy if you've got a grasp of flat peyote. It's just like flat peyote except that it can become quite sculptural without changing much. I've done tubular peyote before for simple chains, adding teardrop fringe beads for a nice, slow spiral. But this piece includes 4 sizes of beads, 15/0, 11/0, 8/0 and 6/0 in 7 different colors. What I thought would be difficult came pretty easy, as long as I remember to always pick up a bead just like the one I just passed through before passing through the next bead. I'm still not sure how I'll end the piece, be it put it on another rope, decrease the ends, add a large clasp, etc., but it will become a large necklace. And when I say large, I mean it! This thing is 1.25" at its thickest and .75" at it's thinnest.
I came across my copy of Mastering Beadwork by Carol Huber Cypher and looked through it. There was my inspiration on page 60, what Carol called the "Undulating Peyote Tube." I've seen versions of this stitch before and always wanted to try it.
Tubular peyote is pretty easy if you've got a grasp of flat peyote. It's just like flat peyote except that it can become quite sculptural without changing much. I've done tubular peyote before for simple chains, adding teardrop fringe beads for a nice, slow spiral. But this piece includes 4 sizes of beads, 15/0, 11/0, 8/0 and 6/0 in 7 different colors. What I thought would be difficult came pretty easy, as long as I remember to always pick up a bead just like the one I just passed through before passing through the next bead. I'm still not sure how I'll end the piece, be it put it on another rope, decrease the ends, add a large clasp, etc., but it will become a large necklace. And when I say large, I mean it! This thing is 1.25" at its thickest and .75" at it's thinnest.
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