Bead Weaving

Bead Soup Party 2011 Official Site is

http://lorianderson-beadsoupblogparty.blogspot.com/

Well its finally here…Bead Soup Blog 2011 Party Day. In the end, I made two necklaces out of my wonderful ingredients sent by Jayne aka Boot C . The first necklace was my effort to be symmetrical. I wrote about my need for symmetry in my last blog. I would actually call this reverse symmetry… I was challenged by how to use the hammered piece of copper and ended up using my new wire wrapping technique to make it a pendant. Then I used the ribbon Jayne sent to connect her wire wrapped semi precious stone flower in front. But there was still one more centerpiece that I could not fit into this design, so I designed an entirely different necklace for that. I used Bead Weaving techniques. Jayne had wire wrapped a lime green pearl in the copper. I played upon those two colors in choosing my seed beads and glass pearls. I ended up using Jayne’s clasp as a connector on the first necklace, so I used a button to clasp the second necklace. Let me know what you think please. I wish every party was this long and fun. Thanks Lori.

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Necklace 2 started off as a bracelet, but it was too big for my wrist, so being a fan of symmetry, I repeated the pattern on the other side and voila, it was choker.

Summer Creation

This summer I joined the Bead Dreamer’s Long Days of Summer Design Challenge. I met Charlene on line and we immediately connected. I was in Massachussettes in a cabin with two of my three sons and my husband. It was quite rustic and I decided that what made this really a challenge for me was how to bead on the road without all your supplies or beads or lights. I decided only to use what I had brought and try to design a bracelet that evoked my natural surroundings, the Berkshire Mountains . Here is what I came up with …its based on a pattern I saw in Bead and Button Magazine. I used seed beads, delicas, tubes, amber and a sewing clasp, which I am not thrilled with. It actually looks more fall-like than summer, but that is because I was in the boreal forest, which contains a great deal of evergreens, some maple trees and birch.