First, I stumbled across the pattern for June Huber's "totally twisted triangle" and decided to have a shot at making one. I thoroughly enjoyed it and once learned, the pattern is easy to remember and can be done and redone without a need to repeatedly look at the instructions. A good on-the-road project, as I've found out.
Peyote stitch bezeling was one of the first techniques I learned and I wanted to experiment with a fun, eco-friendly source. Thus, the Bacardi party pendant was born. It was my first real foray into fringe.
Then I got sucked into my current obsession, which seems to be bead crochet necklaces. This first one, which I've named Aurka, is made of mother of pearl chips and a vintage mother of pearl button as the focal. The clasp is also a square mother of pearl bead with two little seashell findings. I had a lot of fun making it, although I only learned the basics of crochet at summer camp and have now forgotten how to do anything but the most basic chain. I'll work on that.
The last necklace I completed was Yllis, another bead crochet bib-style necklace, this time made of citrine chips, moonstone, glass beads, Tohos, glass pearls and freshwater pearls. It's all done in a peach-black-white color palette I'm very fond of. The clasp is another vintage button loop closure with a fun pearl dangle down the back.
I think I have a few bead crochet necklaces left in my system before I move on to something else but Aurka is already sold so I suppose that a few more projects in the same style can't hurt too much :) and I plan to try out a few more thread colors. Again, thanks for reading! Anyone else out there playing around with bead crochet?
