Monday, October 26, 2009

Totally Tubular!

Okay, bad 80's jokes aside, here's what I've been working on this week:
First up (and the reason for the title post) is my first tubular peyote bracelet. It's a bangle made with 8's, 11's, and 15's and I think it turned out pretty good for my first attempt.
Here's what it looks like on my arm.

Next up is a herringbone bracelet, made with gemstones to kind of break up the flow. I made it to match a sweater that I have which has this black fleur-de-lis-esque pattern on it. Well, after finishing the bracelet, I realized that instead of capturing the pattern from my sweater, I successfully wove Batman into my bracelet. To the batcave!
Finally, I created this necklace using herringbone weave, and following the same technique as the bracelet, I added 3mm faceted glass beads in between different sections of the necklace. I REALLY, really like this technique, so you'll probably see some more of this in the future. I ordered a bunch of those little gemstone rounds earlier, and now I have a place to use them!

Have a great Monday! Hopefully, this week will be a little calmer for me than last week!

4 comments:

  1. The necklace is my favorite- gorgeous color choice and I love how the beads draw your eye, it will be great with gemstones!

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  2. All beautiful, but I especially like the tubular bracelet in the first pic. It is such a nice pattern and movement of beads. Great colours too!

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  3. I hope my first tubular bracelet looks as pretty as yours. I like all of your latest jewelry.

    The clasp on your "Batman" bracelet is really unique.

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