CurliQs

I've been making curliQs ---technicall spirals---for a very long time. I think I was originally inspired by a philosophy prof who also liked to doodle---his were very elaborate multi-colored doodles that were a favorite pastime during department meetings. Mine have tended to be monochromatic, and, until I started working with glass, executed only with pen on paper.

Glass trailing, however, lends itself to curvilinear motions, so then I started making three dimensional doodles on beads. The biggest difficulty is that working thin stringer makes technical demands (e.g. stringer melts before I'm ready to put it down) that I overcame with pen approximately by the time I was three or four.

But challange is good, no?

This post is mostly a sales pitch, but you can ignore that and look at the pretty picture of the very first type of bead I had published, in the 2003 October issue of Beadwork, as I recall.

 

curliQ version of a 2006 series of bullseye designer size beads in spring pastels.

 

CurliQs based on antique roman glass

 

This is a howto, but features curliQs