More fungi……

I made some more variations on my Fungi beadweaving tutorial, so though I ought to share!

This trio are based on the Ink Cap mushroom, and there are charts and instructions for using the tutorial methods to make these on p47. They’re mounted on a lovely wet felted pebble.

This little one is actually not that little, as it was made with size 8 seeds instead of the usual size 11. The top is a cone (4 repeat) version of the small flat top (notes on p45), with a fattened stalk made by adding increases from around row 5 of the stalk, then decreasing when it was nearly long enough to give a lovely fat belly. The shaping changes ever so slightly with 8s – they’re proportionally slightly wider than 11s, it’s really marginal but enough to make the 5 repeat flat tops too wavy and structurally unsound, so the having the 4 repeat cone option is great here.

As you can see from the collection on display here with a couple of my Orbits, I’ve now made quite a lot of these, and the range is still growing. In the foreground here you can see my ombre yellow ‘cone’ samples from the tutorial – Sulphur Tufts. I’m now making a couple more of these and am working on introducing bends into the stalks to allow them to be mounted on a vertical surface, as if growing from a cut log in the wild. More on that soon.