Does This Look Familiar?
A normal person might see a familiar face and have trouble remembering that person's name. As a beader, I've discovered a similar problem: I recognize the beadwork, but I can't figure out where I've seen it before. Does that ever happen to you? (Please say yes!)
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When I asked for examples of beaded quilts by readers, Beading Daily member Mary J. Winters-Meyer ("The Beading Banshee") shared a stunning red, white, and black beaded shawl that had a quilt-like look. I loved it, but was puzzled by how familiar it seemed. Where had I seen it before?
Photo courtesy of Mary J. Winters-Meyer.
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Does this piece look familiar to you? Where have you seen it before? The answer is at the bottom of this newsletter. (Nothing like a beading mini-mystery to start the day!)
Bead Quilts by Beading Daily Members
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This mini gallery contains work by individuals (Lisa Caryl, Jeff Fors, Mary J. Winters-Meyer) and organizations (Great Lakes Beadworkers Guild of Michigan, Mat-Su Valley Bead Society, Upstate New York Glass Bead and Jewelry Guild). One of the organizations, Great Lakes Beadworkers Guild of Michigan, created a memory quilt in honor of one of their members. The quilt (pictured at right) is currently on loan at the governor's mansion in Michigan. View the Bead Quilt Gallery
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And One More . . .
Inspired by these bead quilts, I started creating mini square-stitch squares with some size 11 seed beads that I had bought at BeadFest in August. The 4-square piece at left measures approximately one inch.
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I designed as I stitched, which turned out to be a problem--I accidentally added an extra row in one square and had to redo that square. (I couldn't just remove the last row, since I had created a centered design.) For my next project--no matter how small--I've printed out some graph paper to sketch out my design first.
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New Poll: Have you ever sold a beaded item you've made? This poll ended November 16, 2007.
This poll question comes to us from Beading Daily reader Karin in Montana, who is a woman of 1,000 ideas!
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Where might you have seen that beaded shawl before?
Answer: The shawl "Elementary" appeared in The Art of Beadwork by Valerie Hector. It also won first place in the "unusual - non-jewelry" category of the Fire Mountain Gems contest in 2004. Photos have appeared in the catalog as well as on the website. Ah-ha!
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Coming Friday: More beaded bead projects, including step-by-step photographs for the ladder beads used in this week's featured project.
A Story Update: Bead artist Natasha St. Michael answered a few questions from readers about her work. I posted her responses in the comments section of that story.
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Michelle Mach is the editor of Beading Daily. She has a feeling that her "Where have I seen that before?" problem is going to get worse, not better.
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