Розумна, гарна та вправна :-) Useful fun for needleworkers / Корисні розваги для рукотворниць
About Me
- Oksana Starzhynska
- My blog's main subjects are sewing, the thing in which I am experienced the most, and beadwork, which is, in fact, pushed me into blogging. I am also engaged in knitting and crocheting. All together they are the set of skills which I use to make my wardrobe my whole life. These are not my only interests, I also like the English language (that's one of the reasons that my blog is bilingual), try to travel around my country and abroad (when can afford it), am interested in art (to the degree of a dilettante but nevertheless) and adore the people who can create anything beautiful or useful whatever it is :-) So welcome to a needlecrafter diary!
31 January 2016
Spikes & Co Earrings
Spikes are quite popular and widely-spread motif. One or, maybe, even the most famous spikes are on the head of Statue of Liberty, the often used spikes are on the tops of fences, often-worn are as a part of some clothes' decor and probaly the most cute are Dragon's spikes (remember that pretty dragon from Shrek?).
Шипи доволі популярний і розповсюджений мотив. Одні з найвідоміших, або, можливо, і найвідоміші шипи можна побачити на голові статуї Свободи; найбільш розповсюджені - то шипи на огорожах; шипи як частина декору одягу певного стилю - теж нічого собі; дуже кумедні - шипи Дракона (пам'ятаєте милу дракониху зі "Шрека"?).
As spikes are Czech beads, the first, what I made, looked through Preciosa site's tutorials. And very quickly found this model, then gathered the materials and started the work. It was mostly experiment for me because the earrings are with soutache and I'd never dealt with it (meaning the jewelry making). After few trying I yet finished the earrings but as for the soutache, I am surely only able to admire the others' works, the material left me indifferent... at least up for awhile.
The difference between my earrings and the sample is not only in quality of the work. I used smaller spikes. My soutache is narrower and I didn't make twin decor. I also added groups of three seed beads between the spikes on the top of the inner side of the ring.
I also decided to make cups from seed beads instead of buying them and used herringbone stitch . The technique is as the same as for these earrings but started with only four seed beads to get small pipe. Then I sewed the ready cup to the ends of the rings.
And here is the end of my spikes adventure... actually it is just a start becaus I still like the beads:-))
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ReplyDeleteТак, гарна асоціація, використаю наступного разу твоє порівняння:-) Дякую!
DeleteDie sehen richtig toll aus Oksana. Viele Grüße von Christa.
ReplyDeleteThank you, dear Christa, very much! I was not sure in the result so very glad to hear your compliment:-)
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