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posted by Colleen Shirazi,
August 12, 2007
at 8:03 PM (Pacific)
I did some beading today...discovered this little roll of wire hidden in the bottom of my beading box. I don't know how I overlooked it before, but it's there...hehe...
So I made two pieces today. One didn't actually require wire, it was a straightforward stringing job. I don't have a picture of either yet (it's too late, I'm tired) but one uses the pattern of the center strand below:
From here it appears the center strand is just a bicone + daisy repeating pattern, but it has crystal rondelles and ring beads in it too. I was already planning on dismantling the bracelet, so just today I held it up to my neck and realized the center strand would make a beautiful short necklace. The effect of the daisies and crystals sparkles like the world's tackiest strand of diamonds lol but it's okay because the flash is just plain old crystals. My daughter did the stringing for that piece all by herself (aren't daughters the best?).
The second one is a redo of this:
I was feeling terribly guilty because I'd already cut the chain to make this necklace, and I didn't like it. I had in mind to make a simple single chain, with the aquamarine dangles hanging off it like this one:
...only with the aquamarines, but once I got going, I wanted something a bit fancier (the simple design works better with turquoise because of the bright color). I ended up with a y-necklace instead. I'm wearing it now. Hmmm...it might need some tweaking. For one thing, it just fits, like a choker, which I'm not used to wearing. I can fix it easily by adding a couple of jump rings in the back, or by making it adjustable the same way.
It's funny if you've been away from beading and returned to it. On some things you feel a bit rusty, in my case, my hands are stiff (one of the reasons I took up beading to begin with, it helps make your hands flexible). On other things though, they suddenly seem much, much easier than before.
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