Hepatica

I think with my very first post, I'll include a picture of Hepatica I made for my mom for Mother's day last year. Hepatica is a small wildflower that grows in woodland areas. This is a combination of both the French and Victorian techniques. I had a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to make the leaves and finally used the "lacing as you go" techique. For those of you who don't know, this stuff is called beaded flowers--flowers made with beads and wire. Both techniques have been around for 300+ yrs. I've been interested in (read: quite obsessed by) beaded flowers since February 2005. Prior to that I was doing off loom and loomed bead works.