a little curve

Coiled wire, a curved glass piece and some beads. A beaded yo-yo. I don't know what the curved glass piece is for, probably a glass marble for flower arranging. I found a bag of them in the dollar store. About postcard-sized and not yet titled.

a closer look

A couple of closer looks at reckless embellishing that is saving this little piece from becoming a permanently neglected wip. Some of the Japanese yarn, beads, and embellishments are secured underneath the netting and some are on top. Some of the embellishments are upside down tulle yo-yo's.

Last night's MLBS's meeting featured a program on photography by jewelry designer Kristen Colvell. She shared tips and techniques and provided a couple of light boxes for us to practice using to take pictures of our jewelry pieces. I love to play with beads but mostly they end up on quilts and not in jewelry pieces. I did, however, recently make a couple of bracelets, one for a friend's birthday, and one in the first photo. As in my quiltmaking, I used both vintage and contemporary beads and crystals.

reckless

Because of the flaws in design such as insufficient contrast, faulty construction, and due to the smallness in size (it fits well within a piece of 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper), this was a prime candidate for reckless embellishment.

improvisationally pieced yo-yo's

Yes, the yo yo on the small quilt in the previous post was pieced. As you can see, the small sections of pieced fabric that I used were rather roughly shaped. In fact, they were not even round. After I used a running stitch around the edges, I was able to manipulate the fnished yo yo into somewhat of a rounded shape. For my purposes, embellishment on an art quilt, the exact shape doesn't necessarily matter.