Welcome to my blog. I create and sell a variety of fine hand crafted jewelry, including beautiful wire wrapped stones in sterling silver,and 14K Gold Filled wire. I also make to order beautiful beadwoven by hand one bead at a time chokers, bracelets, earrings and other jewelry with a variety of colors, sizes, different modes of stitches, and beautiful semi-precious bead necklaces. Thank you for your interest and visit often for a update of what is new.
Friday, April 8, 2011
SHHHH! It is a secret.
Well I finally broke down and am trying my luck at bead embroidery. As a child growing up my grandmother taught me what she called fancy-work. That included crocheting, knitting, embroidery, and making braided rugs as well as sewing. I did a lot of sewing growing up and won awards in the 4-H for it. However, I never really liked how my embroidery came out and got discouraged with it. As I got older I continued sewing but hated hand sewing, sure glad when I got a sewing machine that hemmed. I still crochet and I have found that although my crocheting comes out looking alright, it appears my gram's fancy-work was all done from self teaching and therefore some unconventional techniques we used.
Now I find myself trying bead embroidery because I really admire all of those beautiful entries each month for the Etsy Beadweavers monthly challenge. Too early to tell if I will do more but here is a sneak peak. Not done yet.
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