Off on a tangent. Again.

The other day, while I was working on my new dress, I was daydreaming of which shoes would go with it.  (Am I the only one who does this?  I do it with my knits too.)  And that led me to thinking about how to accessorize a dress like this.  And that reminded me of a bracelet I started to make many years ago, and never finished.  So yesterday I dug it out:

Have any of you ever done bead weaving?  This is called peyote stitch, and I was pretty addicted to it for a while.  It's one of the classes I used to teach early on in my career at the studio.  It uses tiny little cylindrical glass beads called Delicas:

Actually you can use many different types of beads, but I prefer the Delicas for the fabric they create and the ease of use.


This bracelet is about half done, and I'm going to try to finish it.  I created the pattern from a portion of a Gustav Klimt painting:

The bracelet, beads and needles were bundled up in a project mat, and along with them were a few other peyote bracelets I made back in the day:

This pattern was also drawn from a Klimt painting,
but I've forgotten which one.

Freeform Cherry Blossoms

Zebra

My BFF made me this leopard one after I taught her the stitch.

The zebra bracelet and the one with the triangles also have tiny glass buttons which I made on a torch:

Good times!  I began this bracelet so long ago that I wasn't wearing reading glasses at the time!  Here's my work station now:

Reading glasses are a must nowadays!

I love the mixture of green and pink in the background beads.