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Written by mochyn
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Some time ago, looking for a really portable craft that I could pick up and put down at will I came across beading. I also found that I could experiment with texture and colour in small pieces.
Here is a selection of things from ‘this season’s collection’: brooches, hair slides, necklaces, bracelets.... Prices range from £5 for small bracelets and brooches to £40 for bigger, more complex pieces.
This necklace is ‘Honey Coral’ and has a magnetic clasp: dead easy to do up, but secure. Its overall length is 40cm and the price is £20. As with other pieces I can make a similar necklace in the colours of your choice.
This is an ‘Oyster Shell’ brooch: no oysters were harmed in its manufacture, but the sculpted shape reminded me of the little creature’s shell. The colours here are my autumn shades: russets, browns, gold and green, and this size costs £7.50: larger sizes and different colours are available. The back has a brooch pin in white metal.
Hair slides: I started doing these when I couldn’t find interesting slides for my own hair. The upper is ‘Midnight’ and the lower ‘Harvest Butterfly’. The back is a spring clip, and the beads, as with the brooches, are sown onto felt. Prices are £12.50 and £15 respectively. Sounds expensive for a hair slide, I know, but there’s a lot of work in them!
The bracelet on the left is ‘Links’: each link is a bead made of many tiny beads, joined by a single strand of beading. it has a silver lobster claw clasp, measures 18cm and costs £7.50.
On the right is a bracelet from the Snow Queen range: small and fairly simple, but full of sparkle. The circumference is 20cm and slips over my hand without being big enough to fall off. I will be making others with elasticated thread. Again, other colours are available and more strands is another option. This price is £5.
Some Christmas brooches: from the top left, going widdershins: a small, flat brooch with a ‘tuft’ of red and gold beads (£7.50); a paisley with raised tufts (£12.50); an ‘Oyster Shell’ with a ‘tuft’ of red and gold beads on the crown (£12.50)and a flat brooch with a red and gold fringe. (£12.50).
All these are flat brooches. From centre top, going widdershins again: Blue Ice; Harvest Gold; Purple Passion; Blue Flowers; Snow Queen; Midnight Blue and Sea Anemone in the middle. £12.50.
And last, a festive favourite: a Christmas tree brooch for just £5!
If there are any in the group picture that you’d like to know more about, or any other enquiries, PM me and I’ll get back to you with the answer as soon as I can; that is when I’m not looking after the livestock or cooking!
For further details see Mochyn's listing on the Downsizer traders gift guide
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