Wednesday 9 September 2009

Cosmic Peacock!




The new issue of Beadwork magazine is out in the US and should be in the shops here in the UK in the next couple of weeks, although subscribers have already received their copies I believe. My Cosmic Peacock lariat (aka Eye of the Peacock lariat) is one of the projects in this issue and so I received a lovely parcel from Interweave this week. It included my contributor copy of the magazine and Ms Peacock herself who has flown all the way to ♥Loveland♥ Colorado and back, to have her picture taken professionally. She's now up for sale in my Etsy shop





I originally designed this necklace in November last year and you can see the blog post about her creation here . I was fortunate enough to sell the original necklace and so I had to make another one to send to Beadwork magazine. Now as you know, I love beading, but this necklace takes a long, long time to make and a fair amount of patience and concentration to keep that continuous stripe going on for forty inches of cylinder bead rope! I do hope that you have a go at this project though or simply make the peacock 'eyes' to adapt for a project of your own - remember to send me pictures of your finished project and I'll add them to the 'Readers gallery of work' page on my website.





Have a great week and happy beading everyone!

6 comments:

  1. I like making beaded rope also, but 40"! Wow, you are patient. Beautiful by the way!

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  2. Congratulations Kerrie! I love peacock feathers so I am really looking forward to this. Not sure about 40" of rope though, I may have to adapt it a bit, I'm far too impatient for that!

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  3. Bonjour,
    J'aime beaucoup cette création. Aussi bien par le montage que par les couleurs ! Bravo
    Yunna

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  4. Hi Kerrie,

    I love this piece, beautiful colors, lovely drape, a really wearable piece, I love that.

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