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This necklace - I just sort of winged it. I beaded around the cabochon to encase it with beads, and wanted to use some of the nuggets, so made the fringe and strung some for the necklace. The cab can be removed from the necklace so it can be worn alone.
Back of cab. Now, if you wanted to add more beads around the outside edge of the cab, you could back it with fabric and do some bead embroidery on the fabric.
This is done with one stitch, peyote, but every couple of rows, you reduce the size of the bead, which makes the opening smaller and smaller and encases the cab.
Oh, no. I just made the necklace portion to wear alone, not the cab. BUT, the cab's can be made to wear as a brooch. You would just need a pin back, and a different loop at the top. You'd make the loop so it would fold down behind the cab when you wanted to use it as a pin.
I bought some cameos last week. I might make one of them as a brooch. And try my hand at bead embroidery. Haven't tried that yet.
Oh my, all those teeny, tiny beads! I started working with a few beads trying to add some details to a wire sculpture I picked up this summer. The beads were much larger than those you've used and I was still "all thumbs"!
Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
I did a fair amount of beading back in the late 60's when the hippies were all wearing them. There were some very pretty designs back then. Haven't done any of that in years. When I made jewelry in the early eighties, the materials were all a lot larger, glass & stone.
There are still a lot of designs with large beads. There are so many different sizes, colors, finishes and materials. Just the other day, I told my friend I have more beads than I could possibly use in a lifetime. Her reply was that I am a bead collector who happens to bead. lol - so I bought some more!
lol - what? trade my bead away??? oh the horror!
I do belong to several beading groups on yahoo and have a group of mine own too.
I have some polymer clay and paper clay that I want to play with this winter also.
Name: Stormy Valley Forge Pa I Love MAM ~ So Happy Together
I've seen some neat stuff made out of that. Do you still get over to the craft show that used to be held in Peter's Valley? That used to be a really good one with quite a few very talented jewelry makers.
Stormy, I haven't been to a craft show in ages.
Deb, a beading mat is a piece of soft fabric, almost like a piece of a velour blanket.
You can spill the beads on it and they won't roll around. And if you use a needle to pick of the beads, they won't shoot off in all directions. If you had the beads on a hard surface and hit the edge of a small bead with the needle instead of the hole, it's like a tiddly wink, it'll fly off.
Been there! When I was trying to use a few beads for my sculpture that's exactly what was happening! I'll have to remember the next time I work with beads to use something soft to keep them from rolling away - thanks for the tip!
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I couldn't even begin to make anything near as nice even with a plan - but "winging it" - Wow! 
