My Amber Fringy

This is a great pattern. I took it out of one of the Bead & Button magazine. I will have to look it up but can't find the magazine.
This was done with turquoise chips in the original pattern but I had just purchased some butter amber. Don't you love it? I used pearls, garnet, aquamarine, citrine, ametrine and several other 3mm and 4mm gem stones with the chips. Not difficult at all and I was able to use some beads that were left over from other projects.

My completed projects from ABC7

Three drop peyote
Jean Perret's Class

This was a great project. I think this would be a bracelet that would lend itself to lots of different looks. Just imagine how you could embellish it.
I found the beaded loop from one of the magazine that Bead & Button donated to the group for ABC7. It works well and you don't have that big gap that I have not really thought was attractive.



Herringbone Bracelet
Nancy Seeger's Class

Nancy started the class with 8 colors but after looking at the triangle choices I had, I cut it down to 6. Color seems to be my weakest area when it come to crafting. I agonize over what colors to put together. Nancy helped me with this by taking out the seventh color I had chosen. Then it began!! Trying to keep track of what color comes next. It wouldn't have been so bad if I had more contrast between the colors. But I really liked this combination.
I still have to put a clasp on but I am also undecided about that. I bought a tube clasp but saw one of the crimp clasps on the net and now I'm trying to decide which one I want to use.

Beading a Bezel
Mabel Thompson's Class

Mabel did a great job teaching
Building a Matrix for Beaded Brooches by Dottie Wood
with Dottie's permission.
I really liked the process. I think it left a beautiful finished edge in the back and a nice smooth back with the pin back applied. When you finished the beading, the piece was finished.
I love the cab and this was gifted to me by my 4 daughters and 2 daughters-in-law as a souvenir from one of our "Girls Weekend" in Branson MO. That was the first time we found the rock shop there and we spent a couple of hours just looking at the pretty things.
I do have a question for you though..... Is it finished??
I keep thinking I need to embellish it, or make a pendant out of i,t or somthing, and then on the other hand I like it fine.. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

Hats commissioned for Christmas

My daughter Linda commissioned me to make these hats for her friends, Jean and Barb. This is a pattern that came to me while I was learning to use the
Knifty Knitter Loom.
These hats, that I choose to call "Mandarin" are such fun to make and you can use such wide and varied yarn.
I hope that Jean and Barb enjoy their very personalized hats while they are golfing and skiing this winter.