Well some of you know I do beadwork in addition to my recent quilting. I have just put a follow up picture on my website of the knitted bracelet. This time it is a knitted pendant. Listed under Beadwork Hugs Shirley
Howdy!
Awesome, Shirley! The beadwork is fabulous, too. ;-)
Ragmop/Sandy
Shirley, they are both absolutely beautiful. You have such a talent and eye for beauty. . In message , Shirley Shone writes
Shirley,
You beadwork is so exquisitely beautiful - they are heirlooms.
How lucky for the recipients.
Thank you. I usually end up giving them away or swapping them for other goods from other countries.
I wore one of the knitted bracelets the other night at a dinner. A woman said she would pay 9 Uk pounds for it. I said not on your nelly, the materials alone cost more than that plus
10 hours labour. The pendant is my own creation and probably the only one in the world.I suppose my granddaughters will end up with loads of beadwork and jewellery.
If I put them all on you could stand me in a corner decked out as a Christmas tree. LOL
Thanks everybody for your kind words. Hugs Shirley
In message , Maloney Empire writes
Your work is beautiful. I wish I was talented like that, I am on this news group have spent way too much money on fabric and quilting supplies since August and have yet to cut my first square. I had some pre-cut squares that I sewed together but I was not pleased with my work so they are still laying here, nothing else done to them. I keep procrastinating getting started on it but it seems I have had one mishap after another, date is now set for as soon as the Christmas tree comes down and I am not so sure that I won't start cutting some fabric before that time. I just have so much in mind that I want to do and am scared I can't do it and have so much fabric now that I don't know where to start or what to start with. I have gotten new glasses, new fabric, all new quilting supplies and lots of encouragement from this group that I am going to make something if it kills me and if it does, it is said here and now that I will my fabric to this group to do with as they please. LOL I know it won't kill me but it will sure hurt my feelings if I don't learn to do it and get my mind off all the stress around here.
As said previously you do great work.
Jacquel>Thank you.
Jacqueline,
I procrastinated for a couple of years until my foster sister said, "You can do it - I will help you" and I did. I made a quilt for my god-daughter's son born July 2006. Haven't stopped since then. It was just all squares and two borders - but I think it turned out so well.
1st.Just do it, the addiction doesn't hurt one big - but be warned, it gets worse as time goes on.
Just ask the quilters on this group. :>)
Like wise with quilting with me. I have had fabric for more than 10 years. When I worked in the library I use to go round the market in my lunch hour. There was a bedding stall that sold off cuts for patchwork at 50p a bundles. I bought a few bundles. They are what I have used for the pillow sham and the top I have done waiting to be finished. I have a problem of finding a surface large enough to spread it out on. The floor is a no, no for me after having heart bypass surgery and 6 stents in my heart. It is an uncomfortable feeling bending or kneeling down. The dining table is not large enough to get it all on. My first quilting experience was The centre panel of the Enschede hug quilt that I did in bead work. Butterfly has always been convinced that I would do the whole thing.
Then a few weeks it started calling to me. I had made 80 Christmas cards. The bead work was suffering a mental block and I thought a new hobby so what better than to use up some of this fabric lying around.
I am not someone to advise you on quilting being a newbie myself other than to say start with something simple and small.
Thanks for your kind words on my work Hugs Shirley
In message , Jacqueline in KY writes
Breathtaking!
Karen, Queen of Squishies
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I knew you could. I just knew it and it tickles me to no end to KNOW you have started. I've been at it for mumble mumble years and STILL make ribbits but that is part of the learning process. I will 'quit learning' when I'm dead ;) Keep at it....pretty soon you will be sleeping under one of your own creations :) and I'll say it again, then.....I knew you could ;)
Butterfly
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