sunday 11.25.18

it’s time for a new project and I’m so excited!  Last year I picked up a scrap of boiled wool from the Bead show and have been excited to use it ever since. It’s going to top this stocking and I’ll use the existing pattern and bring it down.  The color choices are great and I’m going to sew this one in full beads, just varying patterns with the colors already provided. Should be fun.

I think I’ll call this one “Boiled Wool” for lack of a better title.

thursday 12.27.18

so it seemed interesting to try and continue what would have been the boiled wool pattern using beads.  I like how it’s going so far! There are a bunch of new techniques I’m learning here.  I have historically couched beads flat - mixing bead types, but laying flat. This time, I’m overlapping beads and layering them. This is a new challenge (really, it’s just beads, how big of a challenge can it be…) but still, it’s new for me and adding an element of planning (which section comes first so another color can overlap.) See the twists in the turquoise strands? Also the dark green on top of the pink swirls. One of the red sections is a bit fringy, too.  Anyway, really liking it. Watching Homecoming on Amazon.  It’s great.

saturday 1.26.19

I’m having so much fun on this one! Honestly. So great. New techniques with layering - probably should have experimented with new techniques beyond couching a long time ago but whatever. Love the color restrictions based on the boiled wool header. It’s helpful to have some framework. But the rest of the design has no rules and that’s super awesome.  I’m just having a ton of fun planning and working on this one.

The turquoise lines will outline what I hope will be a river of beads. Thinking I’ll do some of the dark green right above it and let those strands  feather onto the river of blue and up into the purple above. Loving the gold circles. Tried to make them stand out but fit in for a cool variation. Used a purple holding bead in the middle that was shiny - not opaque - thought opacity would make it too loud.

And the red. Loving it. All the texture. Yes!

sunday 2.10.19

just really still having fun with this one. so easy to enjoy - easy to pick colors, patterns, loving the overlapping beads. i’ll put some colors over the red section so it’s likely this large section will be relatively flat with some patterns on top.