Clown School Beaded Amulet Bag
The evening before New Year’s Eve I went to Hobby Lobby and found a display frame for a beaded bag that I made quite sometime ago. Unfortunately, in the frame you can’t see the back of the bag, but at least it’s encased in something that enables me to display part of it without me always having to handle the beads and risk marring them up. Inside the display case was what appeared to be a stiffened piece of batting. Because the beaded bag didn’t look too great on the batting, I covered it up with some blue suede material that I bought at Joann’s. Then I laid the bag on it, front facing up. The front of the glass display case has a snap closure on the side.
The back and front of the bag was designed by Deb Bergs and is made up of delica beads.
Because the front and back of the bag were joined together in a tubular fashion, the construction easily lends itself to a two-sided fringe, which I designed. I tried to fan the fringe out in display case so that you can see the detail. The back side of the fringe was made up of remaining delicas that were used in the construction of the body of the bag. I also used white hex beads, metallic blue AB charlottes. copper colored seed beads, metallic blue seed beads and bugle beads, and some fish-shaped beads. I tried to make the front fringe look like sea coral. I used various different coral and orange as well as green colored delica beads.
I also made the strap using the same types of beads I used in the fringe to give the bag some unity and I added a few different other beads that I had in my stash: some sand colored chips, #8 blue seeds beads and some red ab faceted crystals
This was the first beaded bag I ever made. It was a ton of fun. I’m trying to decide which bag I want to do next.
Clown School Beaded Amulet Bag designed by Deb Bergs copyright 2003 from the book Rain Forest Beaded Bags published by Design Originals
