I'm excited to be involved in the Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry Blog Celebration (which includes a cool challenge via Polyvore.com). Lorelei Eurto and Erin Siegel, along with contributors Maire Dodd, Tracy Statler, and Denise Yezbak Moore, created a unique beading book that focuses on various types of cording, ribbon, and fiber to make beautiful jewelry. It's a pretty awesome book!
Lori Anderson creates jewelry for her web site, Lori Anderson Designs, and wrote the blog An Artist's Year Off. She is the creator of the Bead Soup Blog Party tm.
Join me at the Facebook group Bead Soup Cafe for bead chat, swaps, challenges, and lots of eye candy!
The book has a ton of design ideas that will appeal to virtually everyone. Silk thread for knotting gemstones, elegant velvet ribbon for a lariat, leather in earrings -- there are all kinds of things to look at and inspire you.
One of the things I've enjoyed working with is waxed linen. "Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry" covers the knotting technique I used in this piece of jewelry:
The polymer clay is by Barbara Bechtel and I made the lampwork beads. The bird is by Mamacita Beadworks (she's also making my new jewelry tags!!!) and the bar connector is by Green Girl Studios. You can see I used a combination of overhand knotting and overhand knotting after sliding a bead onto one of the threads (you can see that on the pink Czech glass rounds).
I have just started using cord in my jewelry and this book will certainly help jump-start my creativity! I recommend it to any level beader.
You can jump start YOUR creativity by visiting the official Polyvore Challenge page (click here!) via Beading Daily. You'll learn about how to win a free book, get to visit with the authors and contributors, and hop through the rest of the blogs in the blog party!
Enjoy!
Lori Anderson creates jewelry for her web site, Lori Anderson Designs, and wrote the blog An Artist's Year Off. She is the creator of the Bead Soup Blog Party tm.
Join me at the Facebook group Bead Soup Cafe for bead chat, swaps, challenges, and lots of eye candy!
16 comments:
Hi Lori. Love the colors and purple waxed linen in your necklace. I really like how you knotted it in different ways! Great new blog look too - Brandi did a great job!
Really cute piece! I love the colors!
Your necklace is so lovely! I love how you combined the lavender colors with Barbara's blue greens!
I've had a lot of fun with waxed linen and hope to keep exploring what else you can do with it!
Your necklace is beautiful. I especially love the glass beads that you made! This book is a great inspiration for adding fibers into designs, something I haven't done much of but have since fallen in love with!
Beautiful Lori!
It is a stunningly beautiful book and I have enjoyed all the fun of this hop and trying new to me techniques! Enjoy the day. Erin
Beautiful, Lori! I just have to get that book...on my wish list and hoping I get a chance to get an autographed one during this blog hop. I am interested in using more fiber cording with my creations as well.
Love your use of waxed linen! I haven't used it much but it's something I've been meaning to try. It's got a whole other look and feel to it :)
It's so sweet! Great color palette and wonderful use of that knotting technique! I hope the book continues to inspire you!
Barbara's Chakra beads are too cool for words...really complements your lampworked beads!
Gorgeous! This is a beautiful new twist on what feels like a very Lori design. I love this book too and feel so drawn to incorporating fiber into design.
Gorgeous necklace Lori and I love all of the beads you used! I finally ordered the book today and cannot wait to get it!
Lovely post Lori! That necklace is lovely - eclectic, colourful and happy. You are Barbara go together so well! And your lampworking is looking gooooood :-) Love the turquoise bead!
Njummie! Nice color combinations! I love it !
Ohh, that is a wonderful piece. Love the beads and the knotting technique. Cool stuff:-)
Love your necklace, Lori! Great combination of beads(your lampwork looks so good!) and I love that you incorporated the linen cord in as a design element. I also LOVE the use of those Hill Tribe beads, I just swoon over those, they are my favorite. Thank you so much for your enthusiastic support of our book. You have no idea how much it means. Thank you!
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