Red and White Swirl Holiday Lentil Beads
One of the things I love about Facebook is being directed to tutorials concerning subjects of interest to me. For instance, I’d been playing with swirls and lentil polymer beads when I spotted a link chock full of helpful hints. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6Oq0G54jIYk Thanks to Cindy Lietz, my beads look much better and I understand about getting the colors more or less where I want them. If you haven’t seen this video, you just might want to! A few months ago, I made red and white and ivory canes based on a quilt pattern design. I made them in various sizes of squares and put them away thinking they would be great for the Christmas holidays. This week they came out of their box and I started making buttons and earrings. What to do with the scraps? Lentil swirl beads of course! I’m having such fun forming my polymer balls and putting the scrap canes in a band around the outside. Then I take my clear acrylic sheet, start