2011-11-20

Peyote Stitch Project #1

I'm currently trying my first large-scale Peyote Stitch beading project:  I'm beading the handle of a rattle that I made a few weeks ago.  The hide that I used turned out to be a beautiful light and dark.  I think it's horse hide, but not certain.  The colors begged for golds, yellows, reads, greens, so that's what I went with.

As I'm not very quick at this yet, what you see represents between 8 and 10 HOURS of work so far.  I figure I've beaded about 20% of the handle, so I've got more work ahead of me, though I am getting faster.

I also sorta fucked the  pattern up a little bit, but hey; it's my first so I'm cutting myself some slack.  I'll just take "finished" and be happy about it :-)

It passes the time fabulously quickly.

1 comment:

Ur-spo said...

I think it is splendid.