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Samstag, 21. November 2015

A Time To Stitch 8: What's your bag?

Finally after some months of thinking, designing, creating and waiting the big reveal of ATTS 8 is here. Thank you, Christine and Therese for hosting the event for the 8th time now. Love it!!!!

So what's my bag? It clearly is an amulet bag and since my totem animal is the polar bear it has to be bear-themed. Plus I was able to work with my two favorite materials: leather and beads. But there is much more about it. So first I made the two-drop peyote beaded paw square and added it to a handsewn deerskin amulet bag. When I thought about embellishment I found a few special pieces some dear friends, Nicole and Ursel once sent me.

The handmade antler button was once bought and made in Germany, then brought to the US and now sent back to me. How awesome is that? Thanky, Ursel! :)

Next the tin cones: I love the sound they make when the fringe moves! Simply love it. Four of the tin cones (the outer two on each side) were sent to me all the way from the Pacific Northwest by my dear friend Nicole. Thank you so much, Nicole! :)

I would have loved to make a beaded pendant form the black bear claw I had in my stash for years, but I couldn't gather enough infos to make the best of it, so it's in the phot unbeaded.

So this bag will always remember me of two dear friends I have never met in person.

Now make sure you visit all the sweet and talented ladies who took the challenge of ATTS 8 and made their very own special bag, too.

Ana

Amy

Liz

Dagi you're here!

Samstag, 10. Januar 2015

A Time To Stich 6 Blog Hop: The Arctic King

Yay, finally the time for the ATTS 6 Blog Hop is here! The ATTS series is a fun beading challenge hosted by Therese and Christine. Every time they put up a new challenge for the participants and every time I joined I had lots of fun and learnt a lot about new beading stitches. This time the objective was to use a graphed chart, word chart, or picture chart using peyote, square, RAW, or brick stitches. So here we go!

You read about the "Arctic King" in the headline and here he is: Ursus maritimus, better known as the polar bear. I was always drawn to bears, especially the majestic polar bears, and since 1999 the polar bear is my totem animal. The pattern originally was for a pair of earrings, but I don't wear big earrings and so I made only one to wear on a necklace.

I'm so in love with the colors and the movement of the fringe. And just in case someone wants the exact Delica colors: DB200 opaque white, DB10 opaque black, DB47 transparent silverlined cobalt blue, DB183 transparent silverlined montana sapphire. The Swarovski bicones in the fringe are 6mm crystal AB.

I planned to make more pieces, especially reproductions of some pieces I gave away in swaps. But then I got an email from a dear friend telling me that he was in hospital and there they stole two feathers earrings from a set I once gave him in a swap. Can you believe that??? I wrote him that I will send him replacements for the stolen ones: an eagle feather (third from left) and a painted eagle feather (second from right).

And now enough of bead people and stolen things. Now visit the talented ladies who were in this challenge with me. And a BIG THANK YOU to Therese and Christine for hosting this fabulous event!

1-Therese Frank (Host)

2-Christine Altmiller (Host)

3-Cynthia Machata

4-Samantha Wescott

5-Karin Slaton

6-Wendy

7-Dagi (Kokopelli) you're here

8-Lola

9-Paula

10-Karin G.

11-Becky Pancake

12-Ana Cravidao

13-Alenka

14-Debbie (Kepi)

15-Nelly May

16-LiliKrist

17-Sally Russick

18-Maryanne

19-Kim

Dienstag, 17. Juni 2014

A Time To Stitch 5: Drei Armbänder/Three Bracelets

First I have to say a BIG thank you to our wonderful hosts Christine and Therese for organizing this challenge! This is my second time participating in ATTS and I guess the badge explains it all in a few words, what ATTS 5 is all about.

So what stitch did I choose? I have this fabulous beading book by Diane Fitzgerald, called “Zulu Inspired Beadwork”. All my beading life I’ve been in love with traditional beadwork, especially with Native American and African beadwork of all kinds. I thought about Ndebele/Herringbone, Peyote and all the stitches wellknown to the beading community. But I chose to go with two stitches not so well known. Both are from Diane’s book.

One is Popcorn stitch, which is easy to do and makes fun summer bracelets and necklaces. Depending on size, shape and color of your beads your piece can be casual, elegant or bold. I recommend doing this stitch with beading thread like Nymo or C-Lon, not with Fireline, so the piece stays flexible and is comfortable to wear. I only made two bracelets with popcorn stitch.

One with size 8/0 seedbeads in rainbow colors, interrupted by sections in black and white:

And one with 10/0 red whiteheart seedbeads, also interrupted by black and white sections:

The second stitch I used is Switchback Chain with which I already made a lot of bracelets, for swaps, giveaways and for myself. The first one is my all-time favorite and was made a little longer ago. Black 11/0 seedbeads encase a colorful bead soup of seed and bugle beads. Fun, isn’t it? I LOVE this bracelet!

The second one is made with black 11/0 seedbeads and 5 mm bugle beads in sunny colors. Also fun to wear!

For the last I changed the base bead color to a pearlized white and used 3mm Miyuki cubes in ocean colors to fill the gaps. I used one of my favorite buttons in my collection: a Bohemian glass button. This look soooooo good on suntanned skin and the alternating rows make it look like waves on your wrist!

And here are the links to the blogs of all the other talented folks participating in this challenge. Make sure to visit them to see some fab bead art!

Hosts:

Therese
Christine

Participants