I hope everyone had a Happy Easter! TodayI thought I would write about a couple of items in the store that are among one of the first netted items that I made. Back in the day, abt 1999 or so I was beginning to discover the world of russian beadwork and beaders when I ran across a site by a young woman named Maria Oldring on the now defunct Geocities Community. She had a pattern on her site for a netted necklace that she called The Karmen Necklace. When I saw the pattern done in red, black and yellow it just blew me away.
I printed out the pattern and tried it out. I'm a lefty and I at first had trouble following the instructions which ran from left to right. I would stop and let my brain rest for a while and pick it up later and work on it. It wasn't till I had the flash of insight that if I downloaded the pictures and pop them into the gimp and flip the pattern that I would be able to follow it. Bingo I was able to follow the pattern with no trouble.
The two items in the store are in the necklace collection and are The Netted Victorian and the Netted Necklace with Pendant shown below
As far as I know, around about 2009 Maria Oldring's site disappeared from the net. That's a shame because it was such a good place for beginning beaders to go and learn from and drool over if you visited her gallery. On the upside the net being the place it is, with big fans of Rocky and Bullwinkle, there is hope because we have the Wayback Machine and Maria's site has been archieved at http://web.archive.org/web/20081217034911/http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8782/beads/patterns_e.htm go check it out and discover the creativity of the russian beaders and as always come visit us at http://goosecreekdesign.storenvy.com and if you know Maria, tell her we miss her and thank her for me :)
