>Beaded Renaissance hat
04 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
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But the girls are always sad when one of the other two sisters is wearing it. This one is a little larger than the last one and covers more of the top of the head and some of the back as well. I also decided I am making at least one more so we will have three of these total less arguments that way amongst the children. I want to make one that is long and can hold long hair sort of like a snood but more of a Shakespeare type of look. I think the next one will be more of a natural color in the beads sort of a golden yellow.
>Beaded lace caplet
21 Feb 2011 5 Comments
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I have been working on this for about 1 month on and off. When ever I was waiting for my children to come out of school I would pull this out and do a little bit of work on it. I am debating if I should write up the pattern and make it available if interested let me know by leaving a comment here in this post.
I got close to finishing a few days ago and realized I was not liking the way it hung. The thread was too light and did not drape well. So I decided I would add large rocaille beads to the edge to give it weight and make it hang nicer than it was. The thread is boil fast thread from Mexico (Granny’s is the name of it) but I found it thrift shopping in Utah. I like the way it now looks now that it has weight and has been blocked. This might look like it is a lot of thread but it is only 2 balls of that thread as that is all I could find and two jars of beads the whole thing when crumbled fits into the palm of one hand. That is the main reason it needed the weight to hold it down. I finished making it last night at 2 am (sick husband kept me up). Got it wet and blocked it so this morning when I woke up it was all done.
There is no pattern for this at this time it is just what came out of my head as I crocheted. Like I said above if interested in the pattern leave a comment on this blog post if I get enough I will write it up and make it available.
>Beads and lace
11 Feb 2011 1 Comment
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Played with beads and lace a little bit this week. Don’t know if I am going to keep this or frog it. It was more an experiment than a project. I know some people would say that was hours of work. Well yes it was, but it was just meant as a study not something to keep. I think doing studies every now and again gives you a feel for how things work. So then you can incorporate the ideas into a project and you know ahead of time how things will look and work that way you will want to keep the finished project.
Just fyi size 30 dmc thread and rocaille beads the fact that I used rocaille beads is why I know it is just a practice piece. becasue a real piece would have been done with tiny seed beads. I made about 3 yards
>Beads and knitting
09 Jun 2010 2 Comments
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Decided I am frogging this I don’t have enough beads to make this two sided (a little hand purse). So I thought about making the other side just lacy but decided against it. This is knitted with the beads that I had already strung onto the thread. I am knitting with DMC size 30 brown crochet thread.
>Lace beadwork
15 Apr 2010 2 Comments
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This first piece is actually a necklace to fit a 10 month old baby. Yes a little impractical. But it was for my first daughter to wear at her first Halloween she was dressed as a flapper and I made her a hat and all. The next child that wore the necklace broke it so the third never got the chance to wear it. It is broken between the second and third bleeding heart on the top left side of this photo. I don’t know it you can tell in the photo that it is busted because I lade it out so that it didn’t look to bad in the photo. Some day I should really get around to fixing this thing. As I still own some of the hematite beads from this and it would would be ever so easy to fix. Just one of those things I have not gotten around to. I actually made a few of these that year I gave some to my sister-in-laws as birthday or Christmas presents it has been to long ago for me to remember which. I don’t know if any of them have them anymore.
This next item was something I started about 10 years ago. I had this grand idea that I was going to make a lace short sleeve shirt out of beads well that never happened only the cuff of one sleeve did. Now days when I look at it I see the top of a small velvet evening bad that should be lined with silk. Someday it will happen, the purse not the shirt. But till that happens I will just continue to keep them in their little tin box safe and sound. But thought it would be nice to share such items with you. I am sure most crafters have little things like this. Things that they made that are sentimental and need to be fixed but that hasn”t happened or projects they started but never finished because the concept was either to grand or impractical. But you know it would make a lovely evening bag with nice beaded tassel at the bottom and a beaded mess sides with a real dark rich burgundy or dark blue velvet showing through the black beads with an equally rich color inside. It should also have silk cords to draw it closed. When this was going to be a shirt this was the end of a short sleeve the part on the bottom of this photo was the edging to the sleeve. If it becomes a purse that part will be the top of the purse.
>Beaded Egg
09 Apr 2010 Leave a Comment
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Over Easter while at my sisters she had out an egg I made for her years ago. At one time I had planned on making a ton of these eggs. But alas all I made was the one and I am very glad I gave it to my big sister. Someday I will make a few more just haven’t yet. This one has a two “Star of David” on it. My sister’s family celebrates Easter and Passover a mixed family religion wise so this sort of covered both but not really. The egg is covered with lace bead-work and the egg itself is made out of dyed alabaster (stone) so it is a very heavy egg. For the stand a napkin ring in employed I use them for temari stands too.
>Clay necklaces
12 Mar 2010 3 Comments
>My children played with clay yesterday and made some beads and mini sculptures. The girls would like to know what people think of their work
The oldest daughter made some bunny beads for Easter Necklaces for herself and the next sister down.
The youngest made swirl beads for herself and for the older sister to use in the first bunny necklace with the gray bunny. Not bad for an 8 year old. I strung all the beads for the girls. I think the youngest daughters beads came out great especially with the wire stringing they received.
I have yet to do anything with the beads I made as the demo for the class last week.
The middle daughter made some playing pieces for her game that she is entering in the science fair on Tuesday at her school.
>Reworked edge of Juliet cap
31 Aug 2009 6 Comments
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After looking at those photos of the Juliette cap I decided it needed a little more strength around the edge to hold it’s shape better.To do this I added one more row of crochet and I added wire inside that edge. Not only will the hat have a better shape but it will also have a stronger edge to pin to the hair with. If you look at the edge of the cap in this photo it is much more defined and has a smoother shape I like it much more now. Curious what do people think about me posting how I work through a problem like this. Would you rather just see things finished or the go along with me sort of thing.
>Juliet cap on oldest daughter
31 Aug 2009 2 Comments
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I fixed my daughters hair for school and took a few photos of the hat. This is just laying on her head real life when she wears it to school it will actually be pinned in place.
>Beaded crocheted Juliet cap
31 Aug 2009 3 Comments
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My children have a Shakespeare week near the end of the year at their school. For an entire week they get to dress up in Shakespearean costumes. I few days ago while thrifting I found some beads with a ton of sequins. My children and I pulled out all the beads and set them on a string to tie them and keep them from getting lost. But once they where on the string I decided not to tie them up for safety but to make a Juliet cap for them to wear at the end of the year.
I crocheted till the beads ran out (not able to make a complete round that is) there is a bead for every chain stitch in the cap and the remaining ones ( the ones that wouldn’t make a complete round) are scattered on the caps edge. It actually ended up a nice size for them to wear. I don’t have a child with her hair fixed correctly at the moment to show you. It is held on the head with Bobbie pins that is why I have a wide crochet edge so it can be pinned to. I will post a photo later on one of my kids so you can see how it is on a real person. So in supplies it cost me 50 cents but two days of time to sort and crochet. Beads usually cost a ton to buy so that was nice to get them so cheep that probably wont happen again if I wanted to make this hat again it would be around 60 dollars in supplies alone. There is not a pattern I made it up as I went along.
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