No posts for a while, but I have been beading, a little. This is a gift I've been working on off and on for months (mostly off, it wasn't that much beading); I gave it to the recipient on Thursday, so I'm free to post it now.
It's what I've seen called a Cellini Spiral. The version in the link is even count peyote, with a step up, but mine is odd count. Each round is one size 11 bronze seed bead, two size 15 matte bronze, one 11 bronze again, and one black size 8.
Tea and crochet are the two things I most associate with my grandmother. Tea because of the wonderful little gossip-fests she'd have with friends and a steaming pot in the kitchen, while I watched round-eyed, allowed to stay as long as I was quiet, sipping from a cup of heavily sugared tea. Crochet because her hands were always moving, always making something, a crocheted afghan, a knitted sweater. Not as a craft but from depression-era thriftiness, a need to be productive.
For me, crafting is what I do when I don't need to be productive. Crafting and reading, cup of tea in hand, recharging for another day's productivity.
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