tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57757287901709054922024-03-05T02:54:36.505-08:00Washoe Kat'sA record of my (mis) adventures with fiber, beads and all kinds of other stuff.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00738783348274842332noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775728790170905492.post-86540772388453250782013-04-12T21:00:00.000-07:002013-04-12T21:00:00.227-07:00Bead Soup Blog Party 7 - The Reveal<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, none of this would be possible without the amazing <a href="http://lorianderson-beadsoupblogparty.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Lori Anderson</a>. Not only does she put on this party for 500 but she makes three pieces of jewelry for the hop. I barely got one done. Thanks Lori.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, I also want to thank my fantastic partner, K. Hutchison of <a href="http://jumbledhutch.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jumbled Hutch</a>, who sent me the soup that inspired this adventure, and what an adventure it has been! Here is what she sent me, </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and the few crumbs left over -- K. sent just what I needed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope she found the soup I sent her similarly inspiring. I know she has made something great, looking forward to the reveal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">From the get go this piece had a mind of its own. Plan A was a bit of bead embroidery to frame the focal and a kumi braid with the sari silk but ... sorting thru my stash I found this pretty little raku face and could just see it peaking out of the leaves suggested by the focal. So it was on to plan B, and C . . . I think I've been thru the alphabet twice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The choker was the hardest thing to get right. I added more silk from my stash and used C-Lon to knot it, macrame-ish, letting the fabric bunch up and create a base with lots of nooks and crannies for beads. I used Shiva Paint Sticks in forest green, turquoise and copper to get the color I wanted it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the end, I think it was more than worth effort, how about you?</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00738783348274842332noreply@blogger.com41tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775728790170905492.post-30821207748691262972013-02-17T13:50:00.000-08:002013-02-17T13:50:24.478-08:00Bead Soup Blog Hop -- Introducing K. Hutchinson, My Partner<span style="font-size: large;">Not quite a year ago I was introduced to a whole new world of beading artists when I discovered the "blog hop". I was too late to join the The Bead Soup Blog Party, created and run by the amazing <a href="http://www.prettythingsblog.com/" target="_blank">Lori Anderson</a>, last year but this year I got in! To learn more go to: <a href="http://lorianderson-beadsoupblogparty.blogspot.com/p/what-is-bead-soup-blog-party.html" target="_blank">What is a Bead Soup Blog Party?</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So let me introduce my partner, K. Hutchinson. K. is a working mother with 2 young sons -- how she finds the time and energy to create art and keep up her blogging (<a href="http://jumbledhutch.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Jumbled Hutch Blog</a>) and Etsy shop (<a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/JumbledHutch" target="_blank">Jumbled Hutch</a>) is beyond me. And what wonderful art -- water colors, mixed media (check out her "<a href="http://jumbledhutch.wordpress.com/2013/01/02/inchie-night/" target="_blank">inchies</a>"), darling little hand drawn pendants, and, of course, jewelry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">K and I are both self professed Nerds and Dabblers, with a strong dose of "I Could Do That" thrown in. We have both migrated from our first loves: K. from water color and me from sewing, tho we carry those skills into our beading.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So now that K has received my soup I am free to show what I gave her to work with. The soup is a mix of my hand dyed silk ribbons, assorted sizes and shapes of seed beads, turquoise, a raku cat pendent and patines copper clasp and chain links. I cant wait to see what K. does with it, I'm sure it will be beautiful. Stay tuned.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00738783348274842332noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775728790170905492.post-20222752346913493872013-01-11T16:51:00.000-08:002013-01-11T16:51:56.731-08:00Memories and Thanks Blog Hop<br />
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This is a project I started before Lori Anderson announced this blog hop. I love <a href="http://gaea.cc/" target="_blank">Gaea</a> beads and when I saw her "Fearless Heart" bead sets I immediately wanted to make something for my Cowgirl Sisters - Ellen, Billie and Patti. To reflect our shared passion for horses, Gaea made a a custom horse hoof print bead.<br />
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What these three amazing women have in common is incredible heart and courage. They keep finding a way forward when it would be easier to just give in or give up, or to become bitter and hard. And they don't think they are any thing special. Well to me they are incredible, and I wanted to make sure they know it.<br />
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Braiding - rawhide, leather, horsehair is a traditional method for making all kinds of tack, so I wanted to hand made braids to be the basis for the necklaces. I went thru some trial and error figuring out how to combine kumi braided cord with the beads. I settled on making two cords for each necklace. The first cord, used to string the beads, is made of 8 strands of pearl cotton. The second cord is 12 strands, it is tied in larks head knots in between the beads. (Note to self: never, ever attempt this again! It takes a ridiculous amount of cord to tie all those knots and when you are braiding it out of pearl cotton .....) <br />
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I was given Indus Valley for my historical period. The Indus Valley produced beads for trade from shell, stone, clay, and metal -- they have even found beads of wrapped copper wire with silk fiber inside! Their jewelry was very simple bead strung pieces and "bangri", from which our word bangle descends. So here are a few simple bangles:<br />
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First thank you to Lisa Lodge of <a href="http://gratefulartist.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Pine Ridge Treasures</a> for setting up this blog hop and providing such great beads to work with. Here is what she sent me. Special thanks for the darling cat head bead. <br />
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The beads seem to sort themselves into two groups, the amethyst chips forming the basis of one and the candy came stripe beads anchoring the second.<br />
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I chose to work with the amethyst group and in the spirit of the hop worked only with left overs from previous projects and repurposed materials. <br />
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Recently I've being playing around with kumihimo so I started by making a spiral braid of embroidery floss and C-Lon cord with the amethyst chips on the raised cords of the spiral.<br />
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I added fringe to the braid using the 4 purple and white flower beads in the center. <br />
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The larger beads are strung on C-Lon to form the back. The clasp is a repurposed brooch, I removed the original center of the flower and replaced it with a pink pearl, the same pearls used in the fringe. <br />
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Blog clean up day -- it's so much easier than cleaning up the house or (shudder) my work space. So please excuse the odd missing photo or blog update message. <br />
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Photo above is the focal for necklace made with torn silk, this time the flat braid is accented by size 8 seed beads. The "bail" is macramé C-lon cord and torn silk with seed beads crochet creating the fringed edge. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00738783348274842332noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775728790170905492.post-21994861946033355372012-09-20T11:49:00.001-07:002012-10-03T11:09:41.602-07:00More Experiments in KumihimoI'm having way too much fun with my Kumihimo disk, I've been making braids out of all kinds of materials and beads, here are a couple pieces that ended up as finished jewelry.<br />
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This is C-Lon cord and beads. The large wooden beads are worked into the "rungs" of a ladder braid, the excess cord is braided into a long fringed tail that can be worn in front or behind. Two strands, lavender and apricot, of size 6 seed beads and spiral knotted cord are woven thru the braid. The bail is folded micro macrame, another technique I've been playing with. <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00738783348274842332noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775728790170905492.post-46461222563721799842012-09-03T10:32:00.000-07:002012-09-03T10:44:54.438-07:00Pay It Forward - Handmade<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank-you Katherine at <a href="http://terrabeadworks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Terra Beads</a> for letting me play.</span><br />
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This was my first kumihimo braid I made for a piece of jewelry, I love getting into my fabric and embellishment stash and pulling out things to braid. This braid has a bit of everything in it, I love the textures using different fibers produce. I've had this necklace finished for a month or so, except for the end caps for the braid. Everything I looked just didn't have the "heft"I felt this braid and the stones required. As soon as I saw <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/KristiBowmanDesign?ref=em" target="_blank">Krisit Bowman's</a> spiral copper end caps I knew they would be just right. I also ordered several other pieces from Kristi and am really enjoying working with them.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00738783348274842332noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775728790170905492.post-2325455306735220582012-07-31T07:25:00.000-07:002012-07-31T07:33:36.217-07:00Nightmare Bead ChallengeMy first Blog Hop Challange reveal! Thank you <a href="http://glassaddictions.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer Cameron</a> for including me.<br />
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My Nightmare Insomnia bead turned out to be a dream come true. I live where the sage of the high desert meets the granite of the Sierra Nevada and Lake Tahoe waters, my bead is granite grey with sage green and blue spots. What could be better?<br />
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Beti Horvath: <a href="http://stringingfool.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Stringing Fool</a></div>
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Gretchen Nation: <a href="http://artfoodlodging.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Art Food Lodging</a></div>
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Keirsten Giles: <a href="http://cerebraldilettante.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Cerebral Dilettante</a><br />
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Lola: <a href="http://beadlolabead.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bead Lola Bead</a></div>
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Lori Anderson: <a href="http://www.prettythingsblog.com/" target="_blank">Pretty Things</a></div>
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Nancy Pederson: <a href="http://npedersen.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Something Heartfelt by Nancy</a></div>
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Rana Wilson: <a href="http://definitivedesignsbyrwilson.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rana Lea Designs</a></div>
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Shannon Chomanczuk:<a href="http://formysweetdaughter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> For My Sweet Daughter</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;">The focal bead has a horse shoe imprint and I wanted to make something to donate to <a href="http://www.adaptiveriding.org/" target="_blank">The Center For Adaptive Riding</a> auction. A Boho Horsewoman's bracelet seemed just the thing.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"> I ripped up some light weight silk I'd dyed and made a flat kumihimo braid with a copper ring braided into one end, then I strung the Gaea beads with spiral knots in between and made a strand of red creek jasper beads using figure 8 knots. Using copper wire, a first for me, I wrapped the three strands together and attached the clasp. When I tried it on it seemed a little thin, so I purchased some copper chain, another first, and attached it to the rings at each end. All that copper was just too bright, so I hung the whole bracelet over ammonia in a covered jar (thank-you Google) and Voila! </span><br />
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Vest/Skirt pattern by Lois Ericson. Don't have the name of he button maker, but I do have a big stash of her beautiful buttons!</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00738783348274842332noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775728790170905492.post-81678520975904188302012-07-09T14:11:00.003-07:002012-10-03T11:24:06.998-07:00Beaded Glove GauntletsSome times my two loves, horses and beads, come together. Here is a pair of beaded gauntlet fringe gloves I just finished. My adaptation of a Native American design.<br />
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Thank-you Cyndi at Beading Arts for featuring my free form peyote necklaces on your blog. I am truly honored.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00738783348274842332noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5775728790170905492.post-78419513161038763402012-07-01T18:39:00.003-07:002012-07-01T18:39:49.396-07:00getting started<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Not sure about this blog thing, but I need one to join beading blog hops . . . so here I am. Imagine horses and dogs will wander thru here along with my various bead and fiber projects. Who knows what else? </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00738783348274842332noreply@blogger.com6