herringbone

Originally, I was thinking of hanging the bead vertical, with perhaps black teardrop beads hanging beneath the ceramic bead, capped by the bead cap. After looking at the proportions, I liked it more with the bead horizontal.

Also, the pink/red beads appear to be more of an accent this way, rather than dominating the design. I used silver wire to make the centerpiece, with a loop on each end. Black waxed cotton cord is anchored to the loop with a lark’s head knot, and I used fine silver wire to make my own coil ending, anchoring a basic silver lobster claw clasp.

I’m hoping the final necklace looks better than these “hats!”

I was thinking of those bead balls when I made this; trying to make half a bead ball. That obviously didn’t work.

With this one, I was hoping to get it to lay more flush to the ceramic bead, but instead I get this floppy amorphous thing.

The third time was not the charm — I want the lentils to be next to the ceramic bead.

Okay! Something I can use, I think. There’s more pink/red showing than I originally planned, but I’m going to make two of these and see what I can do.