

She kindly offered me a copy of the instructions, which I thought I did not need until I got the bracelet done and did not know how to finish the sides. Being a peyote 2-bead up the outer edges are raw. On the wide one I tried sewing down more 11s along the edge to cover the holes and threads and with the narrower one (below) I used a three-bead picot. It is interesting to see how the 11 bead color changes from being within the pattern and off the edges (top one).
Thanks Sue for the new idea and the return of my fish. One of the drop in visitors bought one and is coming by this week for another one. Our 'show 'n tell' table very often brings sales as people visiting the arts center see our open door and stop by.
Sus, the Executive Director, invited the group to have a table for sales at the Big Car Event on July 17. Already he has over 80 special cars register to be shown. The crafty among us is thinking men, cars, jewelry. . .
Then I remembered watching an "Auntie's Beads" You-tube demonstration of the "flat spiral stitch" and to my amazement I was able to remember it and do it. It was so easy and worked up so nicely that I made all of these. I have one still going that is lovely with light greens and clear ABx2 crystals. The crystals have opal-like fire that is very exciting, but what to put with those bright orange 'flames' that doesn't look like Halloween?
*I have do often noticed that when I make up something for a certain event, or in this case, many fish examples for Sue, people will not pick the newest made items, but pick out the older ones. I have wondered if the new pieces have not yet 'jelled' or combined themselves into a unified unit - a state that only comes when the beads have had time to get acquainted.