Every year, Fire Mountain Gems hosts a beading contest. And most every year, I enter. It's a wonderful excuse to buy lots of supplies to make the most elaborate, ambitious, out-there designs I and my design partner can think up! Each piece takes at least a month to make, with several hours each day spent beading. The choker above must have taken three months, though. Seed bead designs usually take much longer, especially if I run into unforeseen problems with the viability of the design, or need a kind of bead which of course I can only get at this one little shop, which is either not where my bus is stopping that day, or it's closed when I manage to get there...you know how these things can be sometimes.
Here's hoping the production of this year's entries will be more streamlined!
2 comments:
This is absolutely beautiful!!! Your are so talented! I don't have the patience for beading like this.
Thank you. I very nearly didn't have the patience, either! It greatly helps to listen to an audiobook or half-watch, half-listen to a movie while I bead.
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