Wednesday 26 January 2011

"Sprite Flowers" and more.

On New Years Eve I jetted off on a little holiday to Marrakech in Morrocco.

Now, being a beader, I couldn't go without a stash of beads - just in case there was any spare time.

I took 5 bags of seed beads in Pink, Yellow, Pale Blue, Dark Iris Blue and an AB Dark Grey, a pack of needles and a reel of KO beading thread. Oh, and two strings of glass pearls.


I bought some Airline safe nail cutters at Boots the Chemist in the Airport (they cut thread beautifully and you can take them on the Plane!)

I took out the box at the Airport - it is such a boring place once you have done the Perfume sniffing and Book browsing - and had no idea what-so-ever on what to make !

So I made a flower..... and another.......and another.......and so it went on.  Once I had a few flowers I made a bracelet base for them.  Then a necklace chain......... and on it went  :)


For some really odd reason, every time I looked at them I thought "Sprite"!  so Sprite is now the name of the collection.

This first necklace is a dangle of three flowers on a herringbone rope with a peyote toggle for a clasp.


Next we have a twisted spiral staircase rope, again with a toggle clasp and a pendant slider with three flowers. 


This necklace has no flowers, but is made from the same beads, under the twisted grey part are sections of colours, which are hard to make out in the photo.  The twists are interspersed with cream glass pearl beads.


This simple pink flower is attatched to a simple herringbone rope.


This is a Cecile's Wheel pattern, which I have done before.  It's a lovely design and looks great in these colours.  My Mum took a fancy to this so it is now in her jewellery box.


Onto the bracelets, this is a shaggy twisted bracelet, it fastens with two bead dangles which push through a loop.

This one is quite similar, but a slightly different variation of bead numbers.


And this one is a peyote band richly adorned in lots of different flowers.


A ring !

And finally a few pairs of earrings.





I think I am ready to move onto something else now :)

3 comments:

  1. wow sooz, you must bead like a demon, they are all lovely. Great tip about the nail cutters, i had a three hour flight to Portugal last year, and i was really gutted that i couldn't bead on the plane.

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  2. Fantastic work Sooz. I love the peyote band with all the flowers on, it's gorgeous.

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