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Thank you so much!
I didn't get the reply in my inbox. Should I check the stitchboard mail or my personal email?
Thx again :-)
I too am a peyote fan and use Delica 11/0 I am also a crappy with bead crochet but can do blankets and such
I would love to see and show my work but have not found gallery yet!
my name is Sherry and I love to bead, I need friends I am military spouse (well was before hubby had to medically retire due to deployment injuries) so we moved every few years so I didn't make close friends because saying bye was so hard! We moved to a small town and bought a home, it's been close to a year and still have not made new friends, I am a hermit so it's hard to make friends this way. I look forward to talking to people who know the work time and effort it takes to do what we do, regardless what it is. I personally love to do peyote stich, keep failing at bead crochet however I have 1,000 of planned projects so I will keep on these until I need the change. I need help form anyone willing to help me learn to price, sell, connect, and I hope and dream of going to a craft show GOALS I am not only looking for help, I just want to meet likeminded people who want share discuss and have at least general knowledge of beading or crochet. I want to meet my intellectual dipole ganger!!!
This is the current beading project I am working on. It is going to be a tapestry for a good friend of mine who asked me to create him a beaded vulture. He lives in New Mexico and makes small wooded tapestry hand looms and tools for them and many other looming needs. My friend Jim Hokett appreciates what vultures do for the world as clean up crew. He collects vulture memorabilia and wanted something special to add to his collection. He merely wanted a 5"X5" beaded vulture, but me being me decided that would not do. So now I am creating this "monster" of a tapestry for him. I used 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads to create the vulture.
I first beaded the vulture itself in the peyote stitch finishing the edges and bottom part of his beak in brick stitch since peyote does not lend itself to form curves in a way I needed it to. The middle pic is the completed vulture which measures 9 1/2" across at its widest and 6" top to bottom at its widest. I decided to create a background to compliment the vulture in loom stitch. It is 20" wide and will be at least 17" high when finished. The height will be determined by what I feel gives it the look I am stirving for. Once the background is finished I will applique the vulture to the right bottom corner. The first pic shows what I have done so far on the background witht eh vulture temporarily placed in its position with double sided sticky tape.
At present I have 32 lines of beading done on the background and estimate it will take 250 lines in all to complete it. It is 310 beads wide using 11/0 seed beads of mix brands. I started this project last yr in Oct and hopefully be finished some time this summer, August at the very least. It takes me 1 1/2 to 2 hours to pick up a line of beads and sew them down for the background. I am using my 38" Zeus Mirrix loom, my other beading looms were not wide enough to use.
The 3rd pic shows the small photo Jim sent me he wanted the vulture to resemble. I did the best I could to recreate the colors in his head. Given I had to order all the Miyuki beads for thsi project I was at the mercy of thinking a color was perfect only to get it in and see it was still not what I needed. After ordering various reds and pinks a third time I gave up and went with what I had. Colors of beads look very different on a computer monitor than in person. I only have the craft shain stores in my area which do not carry Miyuki Delicas, so buying in person was not an option.
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Thank you so much!
I didn't get the reply in my inbox. Should I check the stitchboard mail or my personal email?
Thx again :-)
Terrydrew,
Fantastic...you're so
welcome! 
I too am a peyote fan and use Delica 11/0 I am also a crappy with bead crochet but can do blankets and such
I would love to see and show my work but have not found gallery yet!
my name is Sherry and I love to bead, I need friends I am military spouse (well was before hubby had to medically retire due to deployment injuries) so we moved every few years so I didn't make close friends because saying bye was so hard! We moved to a small town and bought a home, it's been close to a year and still have not made new friends, I am a hermit so it's hard to make friends this way. I look forward to talking to people who know the work time and effort it takes to do what we do, regardless what it is. I personally love to do peyote stich, keep failing at bead crochet however I have 1,000 of planned projects so I will keep on these until I need the change. I need help form anyone willing to help me learn to price, sell, connect, and I hope and dream of going to a craft show GOALS I am not only looking for help, I just want to meet likeminded people who want share discuss and have at least general knowledge of beading or crochet. I want to meet my intellectual dipole ganger!!!
This is the current beading project I am working on. It is going to be a tapestry for a good friend of mine who asked me to create him a beaded vulture. He lives in New Mexico and makes small wooded tapestry hand looms and tools for them and many other looming needs. My friend Jim Hokett appreciates what vultures do for the world as clean up crew. He collects vulture memorabilia and wanted something special to add to his collection. He merely wanted a 5"X5" beaded vulture, but me being me decided that would not do. So now I am creating this "monster" of a tapestry for him. I used 11/0 Miyuki Delica beads to create the vulture.
I first beaded the vulture itself in the peyote stitch finishing the edges and bottom part of his beak in brick stitch since peyote does not lend itself to form curves in a way I needed it to. The middle pic is the completed vulture which measures 9 1/2" across at its widest and 6" top to bottom at its widest. I decided to create a background to compliment the vulture in loom stitch. It is 20" wide and will be at least 17" high when finished. The height will be determined by what I feel gives it the look I am stirving for. Once the background is finished I will applique the vulture to the right bottom corner. The first pic shows what I have done so far on the background witht eh vulture temporarily placed in its position with double sided sticky tape.
At present I have 32 lines of beading done on the background and estimate it will take 250 lines in all to complete it. It is 310 beads wide using 11/0 seed beads of mix brands. I started this project last yr in Oct and hopefully be finished some time this summer, August at the very least. It takes me 1 1/2 to 2 hours to pick up a line of beads and sew them down for the background. I am using my 38" Zeus Mirrix loom, my other beading looms were not wide enough to use.
The 3rd pic shows the small photo Jim sent me he wanted the vulture to resemble. I did the best I could to recreate the colors in his head. Given I had to order all the Miyuki beads for thsi project I was at the mercy of thinking a color was perfect only to get it in and see it was still not what I needed. After ordering various reds and pinks a third time I gave up and went with what I had. Colors of beads look very different on a computer monitor than in person. I only have the craft shain stores in my area which do not carry Miyuki Delicas, so buying in person was not an option.
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