I am continuing
on my monochromatic silver beading journey just so that I could get more
comfortable with this whole bead embroider business. I again used different
types and shades of silver ( I keep wanting to write different shades of grey
but I have to stop myself from
doing so :D) beads that I had just to see how they would look next to each and
to be honest what I am seeing is that using all different shapes, sizes and
finishes does not make the beadwork look all that bad. I thought it might look
a little bit too haphazard and busy but I don’t think that’s really happened
here.
I have been looking around for interesting cabochons but I
can’t really seem to find something that I like, or the things that I seem to
like are kind of expensive and at
this point I don’t think I am ready to invest in pricey cabochons; so I decided
to make my own.
The centre cabochon in this brooch is made of clear resin
and silver holographic glitter and measures just a hair smaller than a normal
30x40 cabochons but I like the mould because the resin comes out of it super
shiny and doesn’t need to be glazed.
I decided to do a peyote stitch bezel around the cab, which
is something I hadn’t done before and I thought it was about time to try. I did a base row with size 10/0 silver
delicas around the cab and worked my way up to two rows of size 11/0 seed beads,
each in different colour and finally two rows of size 15/0 delicas.
The most problem I had making this brooch was sewing up the
last row. I find it’s always a little bit of a hit and miss when using
alternating beads of different shapes and size. Sometimes you get to the last
two and you see that you don’t have enough space to keep the same alternating
pattern going but most times with a little bit of coaxing or readjusting the
spacing between the beads you can get it to work. The most important thing is
for it to look aesthetically pleasing to your eyes. I find myself being able to
tolerate a little bit of space between the beads if that means that I don’t
have to use the same bead twice and break the continuity of the pattern. But I
have seen a lot of bead work that have just used a bead that can fit into the
space and fill it up and it doesn’t look too bad. But as I said it has to be
whatever you are comfortable doing in your own work.
To finish off the edge I used size 15/0 delicas, which is a
repeat of the last row of beads I used for the bezel around the centre cabochon
to do a clean edge and finish off the brooch. In hindsight I could have used
the last row of alternating bead to finish off the edge but this was one of my
earlier pieces.
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