I've been making curliQs —technicall spirals—for a very long time. I think I was originally inspired by a philosophy prof who also liked to doodle—his were very elaborate multi-colored doodles that were a favorite pastime during department meetings. Mine have tended to be monochromatic, and, until I started working with glass, executed only with pen on paper.
Glass trailing, however, lends itself to curvilinear motions, so then I started making three dimensional doodles on beads. The biggest difficulty is that working thin stringer makes technical demands (e.g. stringer melts before I'm ready to put it down) that I overcame with pen approximately by the time I was three or four.
But challange is good, no?
Making the 2020 orange beadcurtain components 03jan2021
Back to working glass after a six month hiatus 19nov2020
The neighborhood deer leave a hapless homeowner a spring prezzie. 03jul2020
Scrolled heart repairs a dead mouse 23apr2020
St Patrick's day charm bracelet with parrots. 17mar2020
Necklace for f2tY's nihongo tomodachi (Japanese friend). 16mar2020
Mouse in brown autumn earth tones photographs really well. 27mar2020
Zebra head dead mouse 18nov2019
A flattened dot mouse, purple and green on a black cylinder 11nov2019
updating an old image of a garnet, black onyx & antique curliQ necklace... 29apr2022
Ivory earrings with reactive double helix scrolling. 04may2018
wftda themed dead mouse 24may2018
2015 orange beadcurtain strand featuring yellow scrolling. 23nov2017
2013 orange beadcurtain strand 24nov2017
2016 fuchsia beadcurtain strand with gold-fuming 23nov2017
2017 entry into the orange beadcurtain project 20nov2017
orange and turquoise mouse 13oct2016
Dead mouse featuring high silver bearing glass shards 10oct2016
Ever so slowly I am becoming more comfortable shooting with flash. Oh, and Cindi B's beads feature some very nice scrolling. 11mar2016
Belled Dead Mouse in yellow, purple and orange. unfinished/queue 21nov2019
Double Helix Trautman Art Glass, vetrofond gunmetal & other high silver bearing glass samples (on ivory) 18apr2018
blue example of our guild's round robin bracelet. 28sep2023
pink curliQs made with bullseye 1mm pink stringer. Originally posted 23aug07. 23aug2007
Valentine hearts from 06 finally get posted in 2015. 01feb2015
This post is mostly a sales pitch, but you can ignore that and look at the pretty picture of the very first type of bead I had published, in the 2003 October issue of Beadwork, as I recall. 14jun2006
Hearts for Valentine's Day. 14feb2006
Assorted hearts, a test post from 10feb06:)
Designer curliQs . 27jan2006
This technique works relatively well at striking czech tourmaline pink . first posted 30nov05 30nov2005
In which I experiment First posted02dec05 02dec2005
An unusual series of beads, inpsired by the roughness and iridescence of ancient roman glass . 29nov05. See also this necklace originally posted 19jul06 which includes similar beads made of plate glass. 29nov2005
Cruel color aka that evil PIG. first posted 05dec05 05dec2005
An actual new piece: a multistranded tasseled necklace featuring garnet, onyx, glass and silver with an antique curliQ focal. File created 17sep04, 18apr2006
This is a howto, but features curliQs 22may2004
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