Strawberry Fields Forever

The August EBW Challenge theme is Summer's Juicy Fruit.  You can read more about it here.  When I heard that this was the theme, I immediately thought of strawberries.  Honestly they are not my favorite food, but they make me think of summer and can be very delicious in season.  When I thought of strawberries, I also thought of Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles.  I've been a big Beatles fan ever since I was little.

So I decided to create piece depicting strawberry fields with Strawberry Fields Forever as the title.

I enjoyed creating a wide right angle weave base for my June challenge entry so much that I decided to start with the same type of base for this piece.  The second layer is also the same, but then I did a different type of embellishment for the third layer.  It's more or less freeform again although not as involved as the beach freeform.  I love how the new color palette gives this piece a completely different look.

The less involved freeform made it easier to pose this piece for my pictures.  It was tough to keep the red from popping too much, but otherwise I'm pretty happy with the results.

I mentioned this in my preview post about this piece, but I have to mention again that I got more than half of the beads in this piece from Shannon (beadsandbabble).  All of the beads that I've bought from her thus far have been great.

I chose to use a metal clasp for this piece, which isn't what I usually use for my beadweaving.  There is a little story behind this, which I'll get into some other time.  For now, suffice it to say that I was looking for something different.  I think that it works well with this piece.

This cuff is available here.  Voting for the challenge will be the second week of August.  I'll have more information about that when the voting process starts.

thinking about strawberries

The August EBW Challenge theme is Summer's Juicy Fruit.  I know that the July challenge hasn't even finished yet (you can vote here through tomorrow), and I'm already thinking about the next one.  Sometimes I get an idea for a piece right away.  Other times it takes me a while or nothing really strikes me.  This is one idea that I came up with pretty quickly.

I've been browsing pictures for further inspiration.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/photobysimon/3095214049/

http://oxkrissy.livejournal.com/381616.html

I also took this picture recently since it seemed fitting.

I have really tried to like strawberries, but they just aren't my favorite.  I'll eat them in season with ice cream, though.

I have a decent selection of red and green beads already.  I also ordered a few from Shannon (beadsandbabble).

I have ordered the two sets on the bottom before and can't get enough of those color palettes.  I'm sure that most of you already know how much I love green so that probably isn't too much of a surprise.  I used a lot of sand color beads from the bottom right set in my July EBW Challenge piece, which were awesome as well.

The beads will be here soon, and I'll get cracking on this newest challenge.  Stay tuned.