Necklaces and Bracelets

The first necklace I'm going to show you is inspired by the bead I made for BWG longest beaded bead necklace. There were restrictions on the size so I couldn’t experiment more then… but I went on to make this

I covered a plain wooden bead in net stitch with green seed beads and then from each bead made a spike or a tassel. I went through the rainbow from green so… yellow, orange, pink, purple, blue finishing on a turquoise. It resulted in a pom pom type shape. I used the last three colours to string the necklace. I've been told it reminds people of a sea anemone...

My other favourite is my Wimbledon bracelet. It uses the traditional purple and green colours. I made the base by linking alternate purple and green jump rings. I used three tennis raquet charms evenly spaced. I then filled the jumps with a mixture of beads on head pins, some on short drops, some longer. My next mission was to find tennis ball beads...

...which proved too tricky. I tried various yellow beads bit they just didn't work. In the end I made some out of fimo. I even managed to get the little white line running through them. I experimented with the fluffy texure of a tennis ball but the fimo just ended up looking dirty! I placed the tennis balls near the raquets et voila!

I'm looking forward to the summer and watching Wimbledon whilst wearing my bracelet!!

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WOYWW 159

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