Echo Creative Club - November Reveal Hop

This month and next, I'm participating in Jeannie Dukic's Echo Creative Club.  Earlier this month I received this wonderful Gin Blossom focal in black and silver.  I'd originally thought I'd create a choker using random right angle weave, as in my Lacework bracelets, but it was just a little too large for the design (or more accurately, my neck is too short).

Back to the drawing board, I pulled together a collection of black and silver beads.  As I sorted through my collection, I came across a stash of metal washers, including my star washers and decided I had to include them.

My goal was to create a cross between Steampunk and Victorian, at once feminine and delicate and industrial in feel.  I decided to mix freeform peyote and random right angle weave. 


I'm afraid the finished pictures I took all turned out blurry when I loaded them into my camera, so I'll take some more later today and post those, but at least you can get a feel for where the design is going from this post. 

You can see one of my star washers at the lower left.

Here's the list of the other participants this month:

Alicia Marinache http://www.allprettythings.ca/

Charlie Jacka http://clay-space.com/

Cindy Cima Edwards http://www.cindycima.com/

Dagi http://kokopellidesign.blogspot.com/

Donna Martin Bradley http://strandedbeads.blogspot.com/

Jeannie K Dukic http://site.jkdjewelry.com/blog

Jessica Klaaren http://www.cellardoorjewelry.blogspot.com/

Karen Williams http://baublicious.blogspot.com/

Kashmira Patel http://sadafulee.blogspot.com/

Kristen Stevens http://kristen-beadjourney.blogspot.com/

Michelle Buettner http://www.misheldesigns.blogspot.com/

Shannon Chomanczuk http://www.formysweetdaughter.blogspot.com/

Sonya Ingersoll-Stille http://dreaminofbeads.blogspot.com/