I have been felling a real Need to Bead lately, so I have been feeding the need. Here you can see my first go at a Cellini Spiral. This is a tubular spiral peyote stitch design. I have been interested in working on this spiral for a long time and I am planning to create a short choker style necklace with this pattern. The purple beads on the outside of this spiral are a size 8 and the inner spiral beads in black and white are a size 15- teeny tiny! By working from very small to quite large one can achieve the undulating spiral shape.
although it looks a bit complex it is actually quite simple once you get going.
This bracelet is titled Cherry Blossom Fizz.
This next piece is the beginnings of a felted picture collage for my upcoming show in September. This is the piece so far after the wet felting step. It is a beach scene from Cape Cod . It will have lots of stitching and details added with machine and hand stitch and probably some beads.
It is done entirely with my hand dyed fabrics and I added quite a bit of thread painting to the cone flowers and to put an edge on the table cloth.
And last but not least, for this post anyway is a newly collaged ,wet felted scarf made with various bits of silk ,wool and mohair curls, and roses that were created during the wet felting process. For this piece I used several of the techniques that I learned with Margo Duke . You can read about that class and see pictures of my work in the previous post, here.
