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Some pics of beadwork from many years ago.

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« on: May 26, 2012, 10:41:20 pm »

A while back Mar asked me what kind of beadwork I was talking about making in another thread. Well, when I was looking for my old family photos I found what I still have left of photos of my beadwork I used to make. We're talking about I made these back in the late '80s & early '90s. Back when my eyesight was perfect for tiny up close beads.  roll

These necklaces are made like loom beaded, but they are not. They are sewn together entirely with very thin thread, beading needle & size 10, 12, and 14 seed beads. I created this style of sewing the beads together to resemble loom beading even farther back to 1974 when I was 19 yrs. old. I wanted to make my sister a beaded hatband in a Native American design. I had just enough money to buy the beads, thread & needle. I couldn't afford the loom & didn't want to make one, so I just started sewing them together. That hatband was a very crude version & over the years I perfected my tension of the thread to make a smoother design.  :twirl:

There was at one time some books out with a style of sewing the beads together similar to mine, but it was done sewing each individual bead down. I started mine by putting all the beads necessary for the first two lines on the thread & sewing down two beads at a time. Once at the end of the row, I picked up the next line of beads for the design & sewed two at a time again. With my style it feels like beaded material & can actually be cut and some color that doesn't look right replaced with a better choice. My son told me once I was too much of a perfectionist. He had watched me many times almost finish a necklace only to cut it in half just to change a bead or two that kept annoying me.  dknow

Most of these necklaces are my own design & I will note when it is and isn't mine. Hope you like it Mar & everyone. The pictures went through the flood & these are all I have left. I only have 2 of the necklaces I made left. Some I sold & others I gave as gifts. The ones I gave as gifts pleased me more than any I ever got paid for.  stupid1

This first one is of a buffalo skull I created made with size 12 & 14 seed beads. It is also the design I chose for my skull tattoo on my left shoulder.



This is my design of a white buffalo.



My version of the Thunderbird. I used this one for the Thunderbird tattoo on my right shoulder. This one is size 10 beads. I still have this necklace.



This one of the End of the Trail I copied from a picture, not my own design.



The hearts in a circle I used from a pattern in a book of beaded necklaces. I made this one for my Mom for her birthday one year.



I still have this necklace and it is one of my designs of a Kachina Eagle Dancer. It had a hard life riding all over the U.S. in a 18 wheeler hanging from the sun visor & shows the wear & tear. You can see that it does not unravel easily even when chunks are missing on it.







My son, husband & I all graduated from the same high school & the town was called Hamlin. So of course the football team was called: The Pipers (Pied Piper of Hamlin) and I made this necklace when my son played for a short bit.



This necklace is a version I made for my Mother-in-Law for Christmas one year. It is in a circular design and that was interesting to create. The earrings I made for a then sister-in-law.



I made hubby a belt buckle one year for Christmas with my Thunderbird design. He still has it & still uses it...umm...when he could still get his belt around his middle.  2funny2



And I also used to make my own purses out of leather. I made this silhouette design for my purse in honor of my Dad who was an old time cowboy and died when I was 12 yrs. old. I still have it, but the purse went through the flood & I just keep for the memories now.



Some earrings I created also.



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« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2012, 06:44:20 am »

 bugeye Yowwwwza again!  If I work with seed beads....I think mine are sz 8!..... laugh or 4mm cubes!  I don't think my eyes could handle that now 2sadk  Turquoise is one of my fav colors...pair that along with some copper, maybe a little purple.... loveuk  The designs are amazing and I just love those silhouettes! I know pic 3 is a thunderbird and not that it doesn't look like it but when I looked quick at the earrings they almost reminded me of a Fleur de lis.....love love them!  You ever do any work with conchos?  I know it's not beadwork but kind of fits in, in a way sorta kinda.
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« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2012, 08:43:47 am »

Thanks Mar, sorry it took so long to get these pics up of what I was talking about with my beadwork. My eyes can't handle anything that tiny anymore either.  stupid1

I used conchos a little, but around this area back then there was not a very good selection to choose from. And internet was not available for me living way out in the country so far from Abilene.  sadboy3

I can see where the Thunderbird earrings would resemble the Fleur de Lis. confused

 I used the tiniest beads I could get thread & needle through so I could put more detail in the pattern. You do lose some of the detail the larger you go with the beads, unless you want to make a necklace that covers your whole body.  2funny2

Turquoise is my absolute favorite color! Add black & red to it & I'm in rainbow color heaven!! loveuk One reason I love the Green Wing Macaw so much, they are my kinda' color & big.  thumb smile3
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« Reply #3 on: May 27, 2012, 10:13:37 am »

Holy WOW you do amazing work!  Very talented!!
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« Reply #4 on: May 27, 2012, 03:58:33 pm »

Holy *bleep*!  Me like, me like A LOT!!  thumb
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« Reply #5 on: June 05, 2012, 04:48:10 am »

wow very nice work you have done there. i could never do something like that,looks way to hard.
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