Here's a bracelet I recently made. It's not in my Etsy shop because it's currently on display at a local gallery.This is another of my freeform designs. I began with 4 dichroic cabs which I encased in beaded bezels. Then, beginning with the largest cab, I added to the bezel and kept on going, I then attached to the next bezel, again adding many rows of beads between the two. Did this for the 3rd and 4th cabs as well. Then as I worked, I felt I needed something more for balance, so added the blue tube - which has embedded Swarovoski crystals.
I kept working the bracelet adding different types, sizes, and colors of beads until the bracelet said, "Stop! I'm done. Just add an edge to me and a clasp."
So, that's what I did. Beads used: Delicas-size 11; seed beads, size 11; cube beads, 3 and 3 mm; and size 15/o for the edging. Clasp is a copper toggle and bar.
9 comments:
welcome back to the world of blog :)
this bracelet is SOMETHING by the way!
I absolutely love this bracelet very nice work.
Claire this bracelet is just beautiful - I do love freeform and I really like the color of this one.
It's very cool Clair. I'd love to see more pictures of it. I want to turn it around and lay it out and have a better look! It's beautiful.
It's a beautiful piece. The colors are great. I like the way you added the picot edging to the cube beads for the edges.
Claire, I love the colors and form to this piece. Very dramatic!
Linda
This is a lovely bracelet. I like the way you combined all the "ingredients". The color is great!
ileana
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Claire - It's great to see that you're posting in your blog again! And this bracelet is absolutely beautiful! :-)
Keep up the blogging!!!
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