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!
21 November 2016
Donut Necklace, or Autumn Ball
Last time I was at the Autumn Ball in my final school year... The weather was very warm then and on some reason the theme of the night was chintz clothes that had none of autumn associations and ideas, obviously the change of seasons in a warm climate is not so bright, it's rather boring...
To create the necklace took me pretty much time and made learn a new technique. The necklace made mostly of the other necklace I unpicked last month before making the Donut Earrings. The short parts of the herringbone spiral were lengthened and joined in one new rope. I learned how to make Russian leaves (it is strange but the term exists only abroad, nobody calls it Russian here) to decorate the necklace and made them of three sizes. The feature of the leaves - all of them are different even if you make them in the same way:-) It also depends if it is beaded with the thread (1) or fishing line (2). For the necklace the latter is better because the shape is firmer.
The most complex part is to join all the elements together. The most important to invent how to do that. After quite long thinking I decided to use the idea of joining the Irish lace - the ready elements are pinned on the base and join with crocheted chains. So I drew an about scheme of the elements arrangement and started to join them with flat herringbone ropes. I won't give any recommendations because it is free improvisation united with the same seed beads.
The lower rope made in the same way. You must be careful here and leave enough room between the two ropes otherwise, when they are ready, they can be put on each other.
Before joining the leaves to the necklace I sewed them in pairs. In this way it was easier to find the right points of joining them to the orange beads.
It is a very nice necklace and I am really very glad and proud with the result. I also think that not to be invited to the Autumn Ball is not a problem... as the feast of creating revives every time when you feel inspired not depending on the season:-)
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You're so creative, dear, it's super.
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for the great compliments!
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