Friday, June 29, 2007

Seed beads and crochet....




Something a little different for this Friday - I am enamored of seed beads and crochet and have been for a long time. When I hit a creative block in beadmaking, I'll crochet or beadweave to get my juices flowing again. Here's a picture of soft bangle bracelet I made completely. I handfelted the underlying felt rope and then I bead crocheted the bangle together. I wanted just a peek of the yellow felted rope with the red beads to give it high contrast. It's soft and blingy! Can't get much better than that!

2 comments:

Sarebear said...

Oooo! The combo of fiber arts (aside from the crochet) with beads is AWESOME. I mean, I know there's felt beads, and felt jewelry books, but I had never seen or thought up this kind of a use.

I like it!

Cindy Gimbrone said...

Thanks, Sarebear! I try to take usual materials and design them into unusual jewelry. Put a twist on what everyone is using. I'm glad you like it!