Blue Leaves

I found these blue glass leaves in a craft shop a few years ago - the store has long since closed. They were in a mixed package, (and yes I still have the other colors.) Not an embroidered bracelet, this base band was made using my favorite stitch: the Peyote stitch. I used transparent blue #11 beads from Lisa A. with transparent Vanish thread since I didn't want any thread color to change the purity of the beads. I edged the strip base with a 5-bead close picot. The glass leaves have a metal bail set into them and so to prevent the bail from slipping off the thread, I surrounded the attachment thread with six blue beads and doubled the thread through them. The leaves have an AB coating. They do stick out when the bracelet is worn and clink delicately when shaken. I had ideas to add some fringing among the leaves, but didn't try it because of the thicknesses of the thread already in the center of the base strip. I'm not fond of working with this clear thread, it kinks and sometimes splits. But I felt the struggle was worth it to keep the color transparent. 1-09>>MPK