Saturday, August 21, 2010

It's hot and dry here in Southern Indiana

In the high 90's most days, no rain for weeks until today. Don't really need to say it's humid here as this is Southern Indiana and it's usually humid. With the high humidity it has felt like 110 several days in the last couple of weeks. Good to stay inside and bead. Except when my A/C decided to squeal like a banshee! So I called Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers is my hvac person. And he is as nice as the original Mr. Rogers. They may be related, you never know. He oiled the fan and it's been ok since then. It is 15 years old so I know I am living on borrowed time but he wouldn't fix anything, said to wait until it broke again and then he would fix it. And wouldn't even take any money for a service call. Very nice person he is. But I wish he would have fixed something, would have made me feel better.

Anyway.....the Huichol net weave continues!!! I haven't gotten tired of it yet.
I am posting a necklace - another one of the teeny-tiny size 15 beads. I think those work best for a necklace or it would be too big and chunky. I also made a bracelet out of colors I saw in a picture on National Geographic picture-of-the-day. Certainly not colors I would have picked out but my eyes sure enjoyed using them to bead with and I think it will look perfect on someone.

I've given up on clasps, just didn't like the time it took to put them on and didn't feel like I got them exactly right. So these will be solid loops from now on. Until I change my mind again.

I am very pleased with this necklace - it came out even better than I thought it would.
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I like working with multiple colors in this weave - keeps it from getting boring. I still need to give it attention that I can't weave it on 'auto-pilot' like I do the crocheted pieces.
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There will not be very many of the pieces with size 15 beads!

Now the bracelet - size 11's go much more quickly and you can actually see them!
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And the Natl Geographic picture that elicted these colors? Here it is.

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Happy beading!

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