So on Felipe’s recommendation, a few days ago I visited his friend Nilda, and found some wonderful beads – tiny seed ones, larger ones and bugle beads, all with the same dark multi-colour finish, like an oil slick on water. I had been thinking ‘green’, working a design around some wonderful green hand shaped glass beads I bought in Egypt years ago, but that idea can wait for another time, as these beads spoke to me.

As I picked through and auditioned possible materials, I found this great hand dyed purple in my stash, and it’s a perfect background for the beads, so I machine stitched some of it with this holographic thread that recently emerged from hiding. I’m considering stuffed forms for this piece, but am quite certain that metres of threaded beads are in my near future 🙂 The result will be my entry for the second Glass and Textile Art Salon for which entries close on February 1st.