Necklaces

A month or so ago (or more?), Sylvia gave me a bead crochet necklace, and I started working on a necklace for her in return. I love the necklace she made for me — it’s matte transparent s/l red, black, and supra white in an interesting geometric pattern. Sylvia likes turquoise, among other colors, so I sent her pictures of bead combinations, pictures of 3 samples, and we decided on the combination below.

For a clasp, I used a magnetic clasp. I somehow have gotten this far without using one — it was amusing; it stuck to the needle, it stuck to the scissors…

The necklace has a lovely feel to it. I have yet to make one of this stitch for myself; they’ve been gifts. Maybe next time? I sent her these pictures, she likes it, so it’s on its way.

I still have my loom sitting here. I am thinking I may need to redo the footers, the spacing is too narrow for the width of the individual beads (2 rows of beads on the loom). I just don’t want to face redoing it. I think I need to loom one row of beads to get the spacing right (to take out later), then the footer, and then the pieces.

I have a bead book checked out from the library that is due in a few days, and I cannot renew it as it has a waiting list. I want to try one project out of that, with modifications, of course.

I have more beads I want to cover with right angle weave.

I want to make a couple more rings, like my blue ring. I have a jasper cab and a dichroic cab waiting here with their accompanying beads.

I have a Jo Woods kit to complete sometime in the not-so-distant future too.

First, I have to pick up the detritus that is on my work table from the ring, this bracelet, and other color ideas. Then, I will probably start the one out of the library book. Start something new rather than finish something unfinished, how typical is that?

Okay, I sat down and finished this for my retiring coworker. I think it looks like a medal of some sort? It’s about 1 1/4″ from top to bottom, and can be a pin or a pendant.

She loved it.  Yay!

A coworker retired, and this was a small gift that I made for her. It’s a gift from those of us who work with her, a small something for her to enjoy. This was the first stage, putting the bezel on the rivoli.

Now I have to figure out the finding. The idea was to make it into something that could be a pendant or a pin. I checked the catalogs that I have at home, seeing what sizes were available in the convertible pin finding. It’s a pin back with a bail on it as well. The smallest was 1″. The largest pin this could have, and not show beyond the edge of the rivoli, is 1/2″.

I could make the rivoli edging wider, but I don’t think it would suit the recipient. Thinking….

I wanted a little gift for someone, so I made another. These things are addicting, and a nice small project to play with combinations of bead colors, sizes, finishes, shapes, etc….

I owe a 20-something male a necklace, sort of. He broke one I made for him when he was a teen, just wore it out. He asked me to fix it, and make it longer, but I no longer have one of the beads, so I made him something different instead. I was looking through my beads for something that looked like it might appeal, and I picked these Toho 11 triangles, and then went looking for some little blue beads. Triangles are used 6 around, usually, in herringbone ropes. I was curious to see what it looked like with 4 — and then added a blue bead between each stitch. I rather like it. It’s got a bit of a flattened profile, but I think it looks best twisted, like below.