pearls for the princess

pearls for the princess

Originally uploaded by lothie

I made this necklace and earrings set for Angela’s birthday. It’s Japanese faux pearls, freshwater pearls, Swarovski crystals, glass, and silver. It took me a while but I think it turned out very well. I based it on a (shorter) necklace that I saw in a local bead supply store, but I like mine better (I added the crystals and freshwater pearls, plus the glass beads up near the clasp).

What took a while was putting in all the individual crimp beads to “set” the pearls. Still, I’d do it again. The beads are all randomly set, rather than being carefully measured, which I think was also the case with the original necklace I based it on.

“Fetching” fingerless gloves

first pair

Originally uploaded by lothie
This is the first of two pairs of fingerless gloves I’m making for the Charlotte Purls Fall knit-along. They’re all done but the thumbs. In the meantime I started on the second pair (same yarn), so I’ll do all the thumbs together.

The pattern for these is here.

jewelry stuff

After the striped diva bracelet, I also made necklaces for my daughters, which came out quite well. And now I’ve been sent some lovely wire-wrapped pendants by a friend, Leigh Ann Timper; some of the pendants are wrapped in gold wire so I guess I will be starting to work in gold now, yay!

striped diva bracelet

striped diva

Originally uploaded by lothie
I completed this bracelet originally because Stacey from Charlotte Purls asked me about making a bracelet with red and brown in it. However, it turns out she prefers gold to silver. Currently I work exclusively with silver so I don’t have anything she’d be interested in. I might start working with gold later.

The bracelet itself was made with glass, magnetic hematite, wood, and tiger eye beads, with my usual silver rose clasp.