I've watched this art doll evolve over the past couple of years and last weekend saw her finished.
Julie's Roller Derby doll most certainly has attitude. Isn't she a beautiful work of art?
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Two of the projects that we worked on were a Zulu bracelet and a Flat Spiral bracelet:
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This is what Julie came up with;
Zulu, center, Flat Spiral, bottom.
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Jo gave her Zulu bracelet a South Western flavor with silver, coral and a flip of turquoise ends.
Lauren really went all out with an experimental Zulu design. She had come with a black & white palette of beads and then found these square orange/clear beads. It took several starts to get it to fit right as the square beads stand up and fill the inside circumference differently than round beads.
This is truly a fantastic Orange Explosion.
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I used the idea of the Zulu bracelet, but not the edge picots. I did a bracelet with graduated crystals between the node beads for a slightly different variation. Now I need to order a few more 4 mm pink crystals as I need at least one more pass to make a proper fullness.
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It's interesting to see how 6 people can take the same basic instructions and make finished items that are so totally different. The weekend was a lot of fun and re-charged my creative spirit. Beading and exchanging ideas with other highly creative people is something I wish I could do more often.
Yes, beading with like-spirited gals is the best. Just wanted to thank you for your Patterns & Graphing for Bead Crochet Ropes book. I needed to add thread and I knew I could count on you. Worked like a charm!
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