I've started on a new design. As usual, it started out as something else and just evolved. The illusion wasn't planned, but when I saw it, I enhanced it.
I like the way the light blue fades between the bisque and cobalt but seems darker between the cobalt and silver-lined purple. Yes that's the same color. Somehow a white iridescent bead got in with my opaque light blue. You can see it in the top right side of the blue line. It picks up the color from the two cobalt beads above and below it and looks lilac. I had started using that color as the background, but as you can see, it just made the whole design fade.
I call this design "Illusion Square". I hope to have the pattern available by the end of the week.
I finished the blue Butterfly Fantasy with a pretty antiqued gold butterfly button I found in my button box. I think a flower would have been more appropriate, but my flower buttons were bronze and copper and just didn't go well with the gold beads in the bracelet. I laid the green one aside when I ran out of the background green. I decided anything I had to improvise with just wouldn't blend with the rest of the beads, so I'll wait until I get more beads to finish it. I'm going to close it with a round magnetic clasp.
