IQI Machine pieced and quilted. A workshop with Linda McGehee was intended to result in a table runner. Instead I decided to make a Halloween Vest. A lime green Ultrasuede dress provided trim and ties to make this tabard-style vest adjustable.
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Celebrating Halloween
Beaded Squiggles BallAlice Jenks
/ IQI Hand-dyed fabric with some sun-dyed parts. Beads over all the black lines.
Sparkling Snowy BraceletAlice Jenks
/ IQI Off-loom bead weaving.
Silver with Rose BaublesAlice Jenks
/ IQI Wire working using silver wire with purchased glass beads.
Butterflies on an Iris WreathAlice Jenks
Hand appliquéd. Machine quilted. Embellished with decorative butterfly buttons that were created by Susan Clarke. Started many years ago in a workshop with Nancy Pearson (probably in the 1980s). The appliqué was finished that year, but the piece was put away. It recently surfaced and I decided to finish it. I had originally started toContinue reading “Butterflies on an Iris Wreath
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Sand and SurfAlice Jenks
Off-loom beading using peyote, right-angle weave and free form embellishment stitches. The bracelet was started in an NSNG workshop last April with Rachel Nelson Smith using her pattern and beads she provided in the class kit. For the necklace, using the same beads and starting with her concept of a peyote stitched background, I addedContinue reading “Sand and Surf
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A Geode in Royal PurpleAlice Jenks
Right-angle weave beading At the beginning of a seminar on Right-Angle Weave Beading with David Chatt at Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in
Shimmering Sails after SunsetAlice Jenks
Free-form Beading This was started in a week-long session of the Split Rock Seminar at the University of Minnesota in July 2006 with
Rose and Burgundy CollarAlice Jenks
Beading. This was taught to me at a weekend retreat of the “Beaders’ Day Out” group by Doris Weinbaum, owner of the Bead in Hand store In Oak Park. The pattern came from the book “Beader’s Stash.” It is a compilation of patterns from various bead stores. This design was by Carol Cook and AnneContinue reading “Rose and Burgundy Collar
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