Originally, I was thinking of hanging the bead vertical, with perhaps black teardrop beads hanging beneath the ceramic bead, capped by the bead cap. After looking at the proportions, I liked it more with the bead horizontal.
Also, the pink/red beads appear to be more of an accent this way, rather than dominating the design. I used silver wire to make the centerpiece, with a loop on each end. Black waxed cotton cord is anchored to the loop with a lark’s head knot, and I used fine silver wire to make my own coil ending, anchoring a basic silver lobster claw clasp.
With this one, I was hoping to get it to lay more flush to the ceramic bead, but instead I get this floppy amorphous thing.
The third time was not the charm — I want the lentils to be next to the ceramic bead.
Okay! Something I can use, I think. There’s more pink/red showing than I originally planned, but I’m going to make two of these and see what I can do.
If I decide I like this, I need to make 4 more. They will be used with tension, which should smooth out the oval around the cab. I simply kept adding beads, and now it’s more ornate than my typical beadwork. The advantage of ornate is that I’ve used all the required beads except for the bronze 8s.
