Have A Heart

I love that song by Bonnie Raitt. When I was pregnant with Avery, I saw Bonnie in the Whole Foods store in Mill Valley, shopping for produce. I tried very hard not to stare, but it was way cool.

Also way cool are these little pins we have been making. I know you need another project like a hole in your head, or should I say heart, but I promise these are fast, easy, and not very messy (unless you ask a five year old boy to make one with you - they just don't have the dexterity to work with seed beads).

One of Avery's favorite color combinations right now is brown and pink. Brown seed beads are not easy to come by, but I found them at the third store, and it was worth the search. They look like chocolate (speaking of which, I just made a chocolate cake that required three sticks of butter - someone come help me eat it, please).

Here is the chart we made, based on an 11x11 grid (eleven beeds fit snug on a medium safety pin), and the written pattern to accompany the graph. Bead A is the background, bead B is the heart.

Pin 1: 11 A
Pin 2: 2 A, 4 B, 5 A
Pin 3: 1 A, 6 B, 4 A
Pin 4: 1 A, 7 B, 3 A
Pin 5: 2 A, 7 B, 2 A
Pin 6: 3 A, 7 B, 1 A
Pin 7: 2 A, 7 B, 2 A
Pin 8: 1 A, 7 B, 3 A
Pin 9: 1 A, 6 B, 4 A
Pin 10: 2 A, 4 B, 5 A
Pin 11: 11 A

You will work from the top to the bottom of the heart, from right to left, so the heart hangs down from a large safety pin. As I finished each safety pin, I attached it to the larger pin, through the hole at the bottom (now the top), winding the pin through the coil at the bottom of the larger pin, so that the heart hangs from non-moving shank of the safety pin, and you can wear the pin.

Have fun with color combinations. I was thinking about adding a third color to make polka dots on the heart. I'm off to eat another piece of cake and make a few more hearts. It really is a shame crafting isn't an aerobic activity. Maybe I'll pop in Bonnie's CD and dance around a bit to burn off all that butter.