Wire Wrapping Experiment...

Since hosting the bead event at Micheals  I've been messing about with knitting wire with beads as well at making a few wire wrapped pieces.

Now the two at the end are all mine. But the first one my Brother Ed did that nice little curly Q wrapping on with the thicker wire (I simply went through with a very thin green wire and added the peridot. I'd purchased the lava and peridot beads out of a nostalgia for the Big Island. The last piece has a gorgeous stone with neat little purple angles (possibly crystals) that I completey fail to capture in this picture....

I call the piece Stone Circuit. Can you name a piece of jewelry? Oh well I guess I've done it. Here's the front up close...

And the back...

Still trying to decide how much I want to invest in this hobby, but it's been fun so far and it's definitely a way to make sure you're not wearing the same pieces as everyone else.

Corny Tanks and Glowing um... bikinis?

Ah, almost forgot here's a pic of that cotton n' corn tank I finished (much thanks to Amber for the yarn) and an um glow-in-the-dark bikini.

...and no that's not me wearing the thing (yikes -- its made of plastic lanyard), it's my handy dress dummy.

Fishy Fun!

Lot of fun on our Barnes & Noble knitting night. Dena's Fish is absolutely awesome. Shane was there (I just had to get a pic of that hat) and he showed off the chain mail bikini top he was working on. And Kristi showed of her (as yet armless) minion! I'm so glad everyone could make it for Amber's last knitting night before she left for Anchorage. Miss you Amber! And please post on the blog even if you cant do pics yet, I'm eager to keep up with your projects. If anyone else wants to post on the blog (projects, links to cool sites, and you tube vids or whatever) and isn't yet set up for it please let me know and I'll get that underway :)