Beads

H&H Aftermath

by CZeitler

I will freely admit that since I have returned from H&H I have gone a little overboard with my inspiration and trying to bring those to fruition. There was a bit of a lesson to everyone about how disease is still out there, I and several other attendees, came down with COVID when we returned from H&H Americas. I wore a mask the entire show, except for meals, so that I would not get sick and miss more work. Despite my precautions I tested positive. Next year (or trip) I will get a booster beforehand to minimize risk further.

Due to my excitement about the binding tool and information by Pauline’s Quilter’s World I ordered the tool set from Fat Quarter Shop and the book “Pauline’s Quilting World: Quilt As You Go Handbook Book” from Amazon. I could not order just the tool set, so looking at the items that were on sale from Fat Quarter Shop I also got several mini charm packs, as well as a half yard of one of the Highland patterns and a half yard of one of the colorful fabrics.

I also ordered some amazing beads from Artbeads, they had some beautiful seed bead assortments I am hoping to use to experiment with the seed bead mosaic techniques created by Sabrina Frey. I was able to see this in person at H&H, they were absolutely gorgeous. I will be ordering the Skinny glue and art edge foam strips from fire mountain gems when I am ready to take that project on.

I did order 2 shawl buttons from Jul Designs to try out. I am really excited to see what they look like and how they work.

The final 2 things that I ordered are the Spindles I need for the class I will be teaching in May as well as the wet felting fibers I need for the class I’m teaching in June. Writing this out I realize I have not ordered as much as I thought, so I’m doing better that I thought.

Remember to Live Life a Little More Abstract!

Not What I Hoped For

by CZeitler

So, I took my rocks out of the tumbler after the final polish. I was excited but let them dry for 3 days before looking at them…and I was so disappointed. I think I know what I did wrong, so I will be taking all of my stones back to the second step and letting it run for a week to see if that will get the scrapes out of these rocks.

I believe that the problem is that I included the small/tiny rocks into the tumbling batch. I think that the tiny rocks banged up and scratched on the rocks that were ready to be polished. At least I hope so.

I plan on taking the rest of the rocks out of the second tumbler on Saturday morning to see if any of them are ready to go onto the second step, and then put those that are not ready back into the tumbler for the first step.

Thanks for reading my update, I’m still working hard on making jewelry and trying to sell on Facebook and Instagram under A Little More Abstract. I hope to have another post on Sunday, but if not then I will see you next week (hopefully with some pretty stones to show off).

Remember to Live Life a Little More Abstract!