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Right-angle weave beading. This was started in a week-long seminar on Right-Angle Weave Beading with David Chatt at Arrowmont School of Arts in Gatlinburg, TN in 2007. We were to incorporate “found objects” into our beading. The necklace includes three geodes that are secured by bands of beading. The non-matching (life is too short forContinue reading “Geodes in Golden Sand

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Beading. During a week-long session of the Split Rock Seminar at the University of Minnesota in July 2006 with Virginia Blakelock and Carol Perrenoud, Carol taught us how to make her Sea Urchin bracelet. It incorporates glass daggers from the Czech Republic and assorted seed beads. The hidden closure is a large hook and eyeContinue reading “Shimmering Sea Urchin

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Hand-beaded from seed and bugle beads. Created to wear for the wedding of my son, Ken Jenks, to Janet McCullough on July 20, 2013. The bugle and seed bead medallions are anchored to a strand of silver-tone beads. The earrings are smaller medallions on silver chains.

Hand forged wire with torch-fired beads. In anticipation of the 60 year reunion of my Moline High School Class of 1953, I created a necklace to go on a maroon outfit. Moline colors are Maroon & White. The special beads purchased from a friend of white, maroon & pink are mounted on Sterling Silver wireContinue reading “We are Moliners, We’re from Moline

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Machine quilting and fused applique. Started in the 2022 NSNG Summer Seminar with Jane Sassaman, this original design features my favorite flowers, pansies. And some small flowers that were growing outside the seminar venue in Buffalo Grove. I fused, appliqued and machine quilted the flowers and greenery.

Beading wire and beading thread used. Freshwater pearls come in many sizes and shapes. This set was planned to wear to my daughter, Susan’s, wedding but it wasn’t done by August 16. Now it’s ready to be worn.

Fused appliqué, machine appliqué & machine quilting. This exuberant rendition of the color wheel spins off into a cyclone.

Started in a Laura Wasilowski workshop using silk she dyed. The bird is a smaller version of a wire and yarn wrapped piece I designed many years ago. (Silk hand dyed by Laura Wasilowski. Bird is an Alice Jenks Original design. Crocheted edge of silk piece appliqued to background. Chain stitch variations on bird.)

Using a pattern I folded on an iridescent organza fused to interfacing, I added bugle beads, seed beads and one Swarovski crystal to each side. It will hang in my west window to add sparkle to my condo. (Folded paper pattern cut from iridescent organza, embellished with iridescent beads.)

Beading, This is my interpretation of a classic beading stitch, Right Angle Weave. The center embellishment is what makes it original and special.

Polymer clay tube created with Mokume Gane technique. Kumihimo (Japanese braiding with a special device) strand was woven with a variegated thread in clear glass beads. Mokume Gane is a technique that was used by Japanese metalsmiths to imitae woodgrain. It first came to the attention of polymer clay artists in Nan Roche’s book “TheContinue reading “A Japanese Inspiration

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Polymer clay with quilting-type designs on the background. Started in an NSNG polymer clay workshop with Christi Friesen. The swirls in the background are very quilt-like. Beads were added using wire or thread.

Machine pieced and machine quilted by me. This is the third quilt I’ve made using this pattern from a class led by Judy Gould at an IQI Quilt-In sometime in the 1980’s. It was made for my son, JR, and his wife, Kara, and now also for their twins, Emerson Lee and Riley James JenksContinue reading “I Spy a Pair of Twins

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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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