Tag: brick stitch

  • Toronto Subway Token Earrings

    In my continuing occasional series of vacation jewelry, here’s earrings made of subway tokens from Toronto. For a visit in 2019, I calculated the number of times I would use the subway, and the least expensive way to make that happen was to buy tokens. I ended up needing two fewer tokens than I planned,…

  • Mixed metal earrings

    Brick stitch with metal-look size 15 beads around a “hammered” base metal oval, on sterling ear wires.

  • Beadwork has happened!

    Completed a while ago, but not yet posted, is this shallow, wide-rimmed bowl for a challenge/competition for Whimbeads. I purchased the kit of beads sight unseen (but themed by season), and created beadwork that incorporated at least half of the kit beads. I did use just over half the beads, and only the kit beads…

  • Alphabet false starts

    I wanted to bead some letters for a possible project, and here are my first attempts. Here’s my false starts, from left to right: Because I like to make things difficult, I started with trying to make a curve for a cursive “A” using brick stitch. I’m sure it’s possible, but it’s certainly not easy!…

  • A beaded 2013 Christmas

    I made a collection of these ornaments/pendants for Christmas gifts this year. I made a couple other colors as well, but these are the ones that played together nicely. You may recognize them as Ecuadorian leaf stitch; these ornaments are smaller versions of the Hojas pendant designed by Smadar Grossman, published in Bead and Button…