My new Knotty Board

I recently ordered a "Knotty do it all " board developed and produced by Sandra Younger.  It's a great improvement to my old macrame technique of taping my cord to a book!  It's easy to use and holds my cord when I'm working.  I've been working mostly with leather & some fabulous Pewter beads I got from Antelope beads.  For the necklace in the photo at the top I added a hand textured Nickle flower which has a hand pressed center flower from Copper PMC (Precious Metal Clay).  All my necklaces can be seen on my website at www.threedogstudio.net

Leather & Pewter beads

Turquoise on beading cord

First wire wrapping project

At this year's Rocky Mountain Bead Bazaar I took a class on beginning wire wrapping.  The teacher was great and I learned a lot.  This is very step by step process oriented project.  I like to be a bit more free form in the way I design and assemble so this was a challenge for me.  Once you've done all the "capturing" of the stone you are left with 8 wires sticking out of the top of the design.  Looking at 8 wires sticking out of the top of your project is a bit intimidating at first but once I started playing with a few wires it all came together.  This is the part that leaves everything up to your imagination!