Beadweaving progress report:-)

I know I'm late, but Happy New Year to everyone and hope 2012 has started well for all of you!:-D

In the last few years, I stopped making resolutions, and simply make a little list of nice things I'd like to have a go at, no pressure at all. I take my time settling into the New Year and it doesn't really get going for me until February at the earliest. This year has been no different, and I had the flu to recover from just after Boxing Day, so I'm now moving forward again slowly, one baby step at a time.

Anyway, in August 2010, a few months after I started to learn beadweaving, my Japanese seed beads collection looked like this


I sorted my current collection yesterday. I now have a Quality Street tin for my size 8s, a Victoria Biscuits tin for 11s, a few packets of 6s, another box for 15s and faceted beads plus an old paintbox for the special weaving beads - squares, hexes, drops, mixes etc. Also a much treasured Buffy tin at last found a special use - I put all my threads in there. Wow!

Now I'd like to share a few things I'm proud of on this beadweaving journey of mine, before I go further this year.

Lynn Davy's Pendragon Cuff, my first brick stitch bracelet. I call it Vampire Bites and Dragonscales:-) Made last August, took me over a week, working a couple of hours a day.



My first full go at a beaded pattern, and first large piece made with odd-count peyote. It went all wavy but I liked it so I exaggerated it and then stitched it onto an envelope. Begun Boxing Day 2011, completed last month, and designed by Chris Franchetti Michaels.



And now for something I made my own. I began to stitch Swirly Twirly Earrings from Interweave, but it just wouldn't work! So I decided to let it go its own way and it was fun to do that, though not sure why I put the blue and green in there lol.



I'll be sorting my lounge this year as the beadies are taking over, so hands up, who wants to see my beadstash when I lay it ALL out on the floor one day soon? Hehehe.