The Color Turquoise

On December 8, Pantone named turquoise as it's 2010 Color of the Year, pointing out its [perceived] "qualities of protection and healing in stressful times." Read more here:  http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?pg=20706&ca=10

I had the pleasant experience of working with the color turquoise recently, in the form of blue-lined crystal seed beads that I picked up from my LBS, Isabellas. The project was an off-loom square stitch bracelet. The second I began sorting through the beads, I found myself mellowing out. The weaving itself was meditative but more so, the calm expanses of tropical waters evoked with each bead handled did the trick. It is always great when a piece you are working on also becomes an antidote to the stresses of everyday life!