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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

Alice Jenks

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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

Alice Jenks

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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

Alice Jenks

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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

Alice Jenks

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