Zingala's Workshop: A Time to Stitch

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

A Quick Update

Hello to you all! Thanks for dropping in here today. I have a quick update to my project for the challenge, A Time to Stitch. You can find my post about what I made and the challenge hosts and participants here. At first I didn't know what I wanted to do about a necklace for the pendant and then I ran out of time to make what I decided on. I wanted to make a chain that wouldn't distract from the pendant. The holidays came along and I didn't get to it. By the day of the reveal I had a few links done. Over the weekend I finished all the links and jump rings and tumbled them in my new Christmas gift, a tumbler!!! Here is the necklace completed.

I'm very happy with the finished necklace. The chain coordinates with the pendant but doesn't distract from it. I used a finer wire than I wanted but the color was perfect and it fit through the holes of the Delicas. I also used some of the fire polished beads in the links.

That's it for today. I wanted to share the finished piece because some of you kindly said that you would like to see it finished. I hope you have great day and get the time to bead or do whatever your do to feed your creative spirit. Thank you so much for visiting with me today.

Saturday, January 10, 2015

A Time to Stitch

Hello, everyone! Happy New Year! It's so nice to have you visit with me today. The holidays are over, all the decorations are put away and now we can breathe slowly and get back to creating wonderful projects! I know that's what I'm hoping to do. I actually got back to beading this week so that I could finish the project for this round of A Time to Stitch! This blog hop is sponsored by Therese and Christine. It's always a lot of fun and it often spurs me on to try something I've been putting off doing. The idea behind it is to try a stitch that you haven't used before. This time that idea was changed up a bit. This time we were supposed to use a word chart, a picture chart or graft. I like working with word charts because I knit and use word charts all the time. I decided to use a pattern designed by Eridhan Creations. The pattern I chose was one called Twisted Triangle. I love peyote stitched triangles and I had never done one based on June Huber's idea of using different sized beads to create a "twist". Here is what my pendant looks like.

I chose neutral colors so the "twist" would be the focus of the piece. I didn't know what I wanted to do for a necklace because I didn't want something that was going to be too busy. I decided to make my own chain out of wire and the bronze fire polished beads that are in the center of each side. But, the holidays brought the entire thing to a standstill and I didn't have time to get all the links made by today. I do have some finished.

I'll link them together with jump rings and attach them to the triangle. I'll post a picture of the finished necklace when it's all put together.

Thanks to Christine and Therese for hosting this hop. It's always a lot of fun and I always make some thing that I've been wanting to do! Below is a list of all the participants. Be sure to check out their blogs and see what they have created.

1-Therese Frank (Host)

2-Christine Altmiller (Host)

3-Cynthia Machata

4-Samantha Wescott

5-Karin Slaton

6-Wendy

7-LizE

8-Dagi (Kokopelli)

9-Lola

10-Paula

11-Karin G.

12-Becky Pancake