I am delighted with this one -- the creation of a Bouquet of Flowers for around the neck -- a lei of stupendously crystalline beauty.
Big smiles...
This is a variation on Sivia's Moonrise Necklace. Here I took her idea as outlined in the Wowee Zowee variation and used specific beads to match some fire polish beauties I had absolutely fallen in love with. I matched with smaller beads and put together other larger ones, (including some great daggers) and I am simply so pleased with the result!
I put it around my neck -- it makes a perfect choker length. It looks like I could go to a wedding wearing this (well, I'd need a dress too)! :-)
We had gotten some cones and some larger spools of Tapestry #12 braid (the thread we like best for the Bead Soup and Bead Stew works) in a 20 meter length. I not only was able to make this necklace but I had enough thread to do a matching bracelet! So with this one kit, you can either (a) make this a longer necklace with the beads and thread enclosed or (b) make a set of choker and bracelet (all you'd need is a clasp for the bracelet).
We have pictures (below) of just a few of the many larger beads that make this special. The Fire Polish "Crackle" mix is the first one below and it is the standout of this piece -- there are tiny crackling lines through the 11 x 7 mm crystals that catch the light and make it amazingly glorious. The other ones that you see below are varieties of fire polish crystal and we think the combination is stupendous.
And a picture of the necklace on a neck (mine -- should perhaps be a younger neck but t'is mine own). There is also a photo of a bracelet-in-progress that was made with what we had left from the same kit.
This kit contains a full 20 meter cone of silver thread, at least 20 grams of smaller beads, (including some new metallic silver megatamas), a substantial bag (I haven't weighed them yet) of larger ones for the middle, and a clasp (which might be the same as the one photographed here but might not).
The pattern enclosed will be the Moonrise Necklace as originally designed by Sivia -- what I did was thread on about 20 inches worth of the smaller beads, then gradually started to add larger ones until it was all large beads for another 20 inches, then gradually into the smaller ones again, for the next 20 inches. This is all before starting to knit -- the pre-threaded beads are ready to go and you can set yourself up with the pattern. Which is a most wonderful one, using the magic of short-rows to create a true circle to lie beautifully on one's neck.
If you already have the pattern you can omit that from this kit if you'd like -- that option is on the drop-down menu.
My husband wanted to name this piece Sparkles Plenty from old Dick Tracy Sunday comics that he remembers from his childhood -- he says there was a character called that and that this necklace certainly does. Sparkle, that is.
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