Here's an idea gone wrong. I thought it would be an encouragement to other beaders to see a huge mistake, err, learning experience! So, my idea was to brick stitch a triangle, glue a cab to the top, back with ultrasuede then bezel around the cab and add chips to each edge, with the result to be a gorgeous pendant. Yeah, right. You can see how well that turned out! I pulled the cab off, after realizing that I couldn't get a needle through the leather and beads to the edge of the cab. In Tim Gunn's words (from Project Runway) how do you plan to mitigate this?? Hehe, good question. Next time (if there is a next time) I will free-bezel around the cab and then glue down to the brick stitch base, before glueing the backing. Lesson learned! They all can't be winners. 
I use leather needles. I can get the needle through the leather and the beads.
ReplyDeleteThe needles are called tin thread embroidery neddles.
But who hasn´t a few (a lot) of projekts that didin´t turned out the way u wanted it to :-)
/maria