Peyote stitch has become a bit of a thing for me as I feel you've probably already worked out by now. A published knitting author and previously prolific workshop tutor, it was while teaching at a Craft Exbilbition up in glasgow that I was dazzled by a participant's necklace from across the room.
She pointed me in the direction of designer Laura McCabe, and the rest is history. I was hooked!
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| Peyote stittch is the art of weaving beads together to form a meshwork, a perfect way to bezel crystal rivolis, or indeed, anything. |
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After wearing my pendant around the office, it wasn't long before I was inundated with orders from colleagues for one of their very own. And that's when
my ETSY shop was born.
Having gained a bit of confidence with the technique of bezelling using Peyote stitch, this year I started bezelling ammonites I had
discovered last year on the Jurassic Coast, as well as others I'd collected from online sellers in Madagascar and India (just because they were pretty, really!)
Digging out spike beads from a failed design severak years ago that had been frustratingly shoved under the bed to gather dust, something really special happenned. These edgy, part art-nouveau, part punk pendants were born.
I'm pretty convinced I've discovered a personal design style that I'm totally happy with and would wear any time. I've always had a mixture of weird shaped beads that I never knew what do do with. With these, I can be really creative and just
let loose.
