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I’m quite pleased with this necklace. The beads selected by Beki from Out on a Whim are beautiful, and were easy to use. My twisted right angle weave stitch variant makes a lovely, flexible rope, with the drop beads adding texture. The pendant and bar of the clasp create strong horizontal lines to contrast with twisting texture of the rope.

Beading for a Cure combines a beading challenge and a competition on an annual basis to raise money for the National Colorectal Cancer Research Association, in memory of beader Layne Shilling. Everyone purchases the same kit of beads (I believe 75 kits were sold this year), and we all must use at least one of each bead, and may only add one additional bead.

Auctions begin in March 2011. I will post again when the auctions begin!

I’m testing out a light tent and lights; I usually just use Ott-lights on white paper for these blog posts for simplicity. This year for Beading for a Cure, we take our own photographs for the auction, so I’m working on getting good images.

I’m still not entirely pleased with this photograph. Anyone have a photography set up they’re willing to share? This is a homemade light box with vellum sides and top, white paper sweep, and 100w soft white bulbs through both sides, and an Ott-light from the front. I ended up cutting the background out, as I do on essentially all of my photos, as it doesn’t end up being true white. The colors are much better than the ones taken below of the rope alone!