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Friday 31 August 2012

Using the silks from Marsha Neal

I have blogged about my summer 'art' necklace earlier; however I wanted to add a thank you to Marsha Neal for having a Silk Color Challenge. It was so much fun to pick out some colors from the many she offers on her website, here . I am fascinated by combining colors. I chose colors that represented rain in the garden (which we needed a bit more of this summer).

Part of my color pallette in the silks were a beautiful aqua and brown (water and earth) which matched so well with Mary Harding's vessel bead that was my challenge to myself. With a lip on the neck of the bead, I was trying to figure out how gracefully to hang it without a lot of chaotic wire wrapping. Then I received my order of the silks in the mail. That was it - I knotted the silks around the neck of the clay bead, and put a bit of glue to hold it. Voila, the beginning of putting the necklace together.





I love wearing this necklace, and I get so many comments on it. So fun to work with such quality materials. Marsha, the silks were integral to my design for sure. My first time using 1mm silk cords. I sewed the silk to hold it (with a bit of glue), and then did my first chaotic wrapping.

The silk was just the thing to transition from the fabulous focal bead to the other components. So soft and delicate looking with all of the harder materials. Please check out my earlier post to see the other artists I included in this necklace.

Andrea

4 comments:

  1. I love how you used the silk ribbon to create the necklace. I believe there is a zen to jewelry making. Sometime you just need the right piece to appear!

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  2. Thanks Kathy. I think that is true, as I was a bit stumped on how I wanted to hang that big vessel bead. When the silks arrived in the mail, there it was.
    Andrea

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  3. That is so awesome Andrea! WOW - I just love the way that the silks gave a softness to the large focal and transitioned it to all those great other beads and spacers. I really adore how your piece appears to be growing glass beads out of the ceramic piece - that is just SO marvelous!

    Thanks for sharing on my blog (I apologize for just now getting around to the posts - it has been a crazy month in this household!)!

    ~Marsha

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  4. Understandable Marsha. Thank you for providing the silks, and the fun of picking a palette.
    Andrea

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