Objective: use a graphed chart, word chart, or
picture chart using peyote, square, RAW or brick stitches.
Our wonderful talented hostesses, Therese and
Christine are at it again…for the sixth time to be exact. I love these
challenges and this one came at a perfect time. I had just finished the Beard Hoarders Blog Hop and was at a kind of at a stand still…perhaps not stand still, more like dead stop…I
just didn’t feel like beading and had no inspirations. I hate it when that happens! Then I saw
the signups for this challenge… perfect! I love doing peyote from a pattern so
relaxing and so many really cool designs out there. It seems whenever I have a
slump I go to a graphed peyote project and this gets the creative juices
flowing again. I prefer working with word patterns, I never seem to get the
starting rows right reading from the graph but I do like to challenge myself
and have been successful with smaller graph projects.
For this challenge I have made several peyote
cuff bracelets (Greendragon9 and Anabel27 patterns), a brick stitch cuff bracelet
(Bead and Button Magazine pattern) and a RAW bracelet with embellishments (pattern by
Marcia Decoster).
Thank you Therese and Christine for hosting
this challenge, it has helped me get over my beading slump and has given me
some very gorgeous bracelets.
I should mention that although I was in a bit
of a beading slump, I have been knitting up a storm……so excited for my sweet
little granddaughter’s arrival at the end of March. I was so thrilled to be
allowed to attend the 3D ultrasound and actually see the little munchkin in
action. Spring can’t come soon enough!
