PLAY DATE artist: Sherri Stokey of Knot Just Macrame

Play Date artist (PDa) is a new feature here on my blog. I send out a package to my playmate which includes some of my handmade components (beads, charms and/or focals) along with a few coordinating beads and findings. My playmate and I will both create a piece of jewelry using those same select components plus some of our own stash. 

Today I am having a beady play date with one of my favorite Facebook friends, Sherri Hartman Stokey, of Knot Just Macrame.

Sherri is a fabulous micro-macrame artist. I won't even TRY to play in her macrame world because my work would be a total embarrassment compared to her mastery. I mean when I say she is good, I mean she is GOOD!!

Look at one of her Dragon bracelets...

Look at that detail! The craftmanship is excellent!

  

I decided to send Sherri one of my newest pieces, the Asian Coin. I created this one with gold clay and antiqued it after baking. Next I added copper pigment mixed with liquid polymer clay and hit it up with a heat gun to set the colors. Turning up the heat ended up adding a little more texture to the piece. I love how it turned out.

I added a shank to the back of the focal bead, Asian Coin, because this is the type piece Sherri normally uses in her jewelry.

I put together this soup with a few coordinating bits and pieces, one for Sherri and one for me.

Now we don't have to use all these in our jewelry pieces, and we can use our own stash, but we do have to use the focal piece, my Asian Coin.

So here is a few pictures of a bracelet I created - 

The colors look a little different when placed on a different background.  I don't really like the way the shank button sits so I will probably replace it with one that sits flat and connects on each side of the focal bead -

Here is a closeup of the seed beads and pearls which were interwoven into the copper chain using 7-strand stringing wire. 



So now you know what I did with my beads..

      NOW, what did Sherri do with hers? LET'S go and SEE!  CLICK HERE!!

READ my BFF feature about Sherri Stokey by CLICKING HERE.

Thanks for coming by and be sure to tune in next week for our next episode!