Sunday, September 23, 2012

Aunt Dinah's Triad...

I entered a challenge a couple of years ago (I think it was a couple of years ago--it could have been longer ago than that...or sooner.  *sigh*).  It was a challenge to make a jewelry piece in the orange-purple-green triad.  I used the Aunt Dinah quilt block and made the beads and strung it up into this necklace:


It's funny, but the more you shrink it down and reassemble the pattern, the more it looks like plaid to me. This turned out much better than I thought it would and I love the color combination.  I probably wear this necklace more than any of the others I've made.

Heh.  I did a little research and the challenge was for Beadwork Magazine in 2009.  My memory *shakes head*....

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Ping still hasn't found his spaceship...

...do you suppose Flik knows where it might be?


Tuesday, September 18, 2012

AWOL...

Sorry for my absence.  I've been in the middle of a big commission project that hast to be done in a short period of time.  AND I'm trying to get a bunch of Christmas ornaments done by the end of the month for an upcoming show.  It's taking all my time and (almost non-existent) energy.  I'm going to try to post pictures of some of my past stuff.  Starting with this one (what else--a ring!):


This is one of my favorite canes and, when I first started making rings, I used it to create this one.