Speaking of the Ebay groups, I'm a member of several jewelry groups there. The first one I joined several years ago is the Glass Seed Beaders Group and that group will always be the most special to me - of course - I use a lot of seed beads. And it's a very small group compared to the other jewelry groups. But they are a talented bunch and very welcoming to anyone interested in those teeny, tiny seed beads.
At the end of 2005, a group of at least 20 beaders from GSBG got together and made a tapestry of 48, 4" x 4" squares. The tapestry was auctioned off on Ebay in early 2006 and the proceeds went to Habitat For Humanity in the Gulf Hurricane areas. Each person poured their hearts into one or more of the squares. One of our members, Trish Whitecloud (http://stores.ebay.com/Apache-Blue-Girl-Bead-Market), put the squares all together to make the tapestry and hung it from a wooden rod. There was also a pocket on the back of the tapestry for a journal, where each beader talked about the inspiration for the square(s).
Pictured below is the final Tapestry, and then my square called "Nature Fights Back".
4 comments:
wow mom your square is so lovely! really nice work. i can almost hear the ocean waves :D
Thanks daughter! It was a big project. I never thought there could be so many beads in a 4" by 4" square!
What a phenomenal undertaking! Yes, your square IS lovely. You've got to be the queen of embellishment. ;)
Thanks Carol! I guess I had an idea of what I wanted to draw - but draw using beads, and make it dimensional too. It was a lot of work.
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