More stars..

These are the stars created for the members of
our local beading group, which met for Christmas
dinner at Pearl's home in Cherokee, NC- she is
the mom of our instructor, Rita Owle, and it was
a joy to visit and see all the handmade cloth ornaments
she created and had about her home.
Now they want me to teach them to make the stars,
but I need to have Lidia's permission AND completed
tutorial, first!!And extra patience- some of these ladies'
fav stitch is frog stitch!!

Lidia's fantastic star

Lida Cimins created the pattern for this star, the bottom
of which is pictured below in the first photo. The next photo
shows the top, which just begged for a rivoli to be stuffed
inside, so I did!
Thank you for letting me test this pattern, Lidia- your tutorial
was easy to follow with both words and photos!

don't know why

the entire set wasn't shown, but here it is

The Ice Queen cometh!

18 large beads at each juncture; 9 on either side of the 8o delica juncture. 17 junctures for the bracelet, 32 for the necklace..not as heavy as it looks, either, and lots of bling! Click on any pic to make it full size.

After the flood..

These pics came from areas around Bryson City and
Cherokee, NC, including the Ela Dam area. Notice the
Christmas lights are still shining in the pics of Island Park.
click on any pic to make it full size, and should bring up
the name of where it was taken...this is what 4 inches of
rain after a very rainy summer (38 inches from June 1-
Oct 1) will get you...I say the drought is over!

A bolo of his own

I have wanted to do a bolo for Kurt for years, but didn't find what

I needed for the showy bit til this year; a bone woman's face with

an eagle over top. It was very white, so used a toothpick and leather

dye to give it color, then clear acrylic spray over to seal it. By the

way, those SOS pads removed dye I had gotten on my hands and fingers!
The 'cord' body is done in herringbone, using 14o hex Matsuno beads.

I added green 'goldstone' drops at the ends, attaching them with 24K

13o charlottes. I also ran a single line up each of the herringbones when

I got it the correct length, making sure to not pull things crooked as I

did, so as to strengthen it against all the tugging it will endure being put

on and taken off....I hope he likes it!
Aryd'ell