REDDY - JADDY

I love challenge...in the field of beading.

A friend saw my heavy weight necklaces and requested me to make one for her. The challenge is - to make use of the jade pieces which were supplied by her:

Her request was to have a pendant as big as possible.  After days of thought, I have decided to join up the four jade donuts to form a centre piece.  It seemed wire wrapping was the only method to be used so that the joined up piece will keep its shape as it intended to be.  Bead weaving  may be a better way but it is not my forte yet and there was time constrain.  After a few attempts, I finally achieved the desirable effect:

Mission accomplished! It is a long necklace with the centre piece resting just below the chest.  If she so decides to have it shorter as show in the second picture, I will just have to take out a few pieces of the red bead.  This would not be possible if stringing method was used.

Amethyst, my favorite

I was quite pleased with the blue necklace which was featured in the previous posting.  I have just got to continue making another piece before my 'creative' juice dried up.  So I took out my favorite stones (Amethyst), staring hard at them as though was waiting for their approvals to my intended design.  And....................................................................................................................... tada, a new necklace was born:

Well, it is nothing fantastic but the fun was in the designing process.  Firstly, I had this big metal leave which I needed to get rid of so I incorporated it in the design.  I did not want it to be the domineering focal object thus three dangling stones were added to dampen the starkness.

As the deep purple was a deep color, too much of it will be too heavy looking.  I chose the Clear Quartz to match with the Amethyst so as to lighten the look.  (Amethyst is also a kind of Quartz which is colored by impurities)  The little light purple faux Cat Eyes were added to complement the main stones.

Asymmetrical is always my preference in design so I applied it in the shorter chain.  The 'intended' look is shown in the second picture above.  However (haha, this word spells trouble!) the actual look when wearing is not like that:

Aaaaaw, this is awful!  The shorter chain falls outside of the longer one and it is of U shape instead of V shape.  Design disaster!!!  




Mayday! Mayday!  Someone Please come forward to rescue!