Sampler necklace

Kid woke me up early in the morning and got back to bed herself. I did not.

Did this instead.

Glass beads, waxed chord and clay beads shown in previous post

Some claying

It has been a while since I last clayed, but today I had an enormously pleasing session with clay, music and hands.

I have a business trip coming in few days and did buy a salsa skirt with brown fabric and blueish-turqoise flowers in it. Not my thing, definately, but something decent enough to be used as formal dailyware. Did some beads from Fimo to make me a necklace for it. The colours are very IN FACION here now, but I am bit hesitant to use them just because I am more black and some gray kind of woman myself. But I am trying to learn. As one can not really stick to one or two colours - although I might think violet is good enough to be counted as new black ;)

The other beads are what I would call "therapy beads" as anything made from this kind of beads is ment to be handled while thinking about life, universe and everything. Also the making - the actual process of claying - was a lot like meditation. I used Premo, which nowadays is my favorite clay even though it is not sold in Finland and I have to mailorder from USA to get it here. I only use black, white, translucent, gold, metallic blue and metallic red and occationally silver Premo to make stuff. I mix shades from those or with other clays to get the tints I want. This time the green comes from gold Premo and uggly strong blue from Fimo. Together they are pretty decent green I think.

Hairpin lace

I have been trying to learn hairpin lace lately. This is part of tunic I am working on, just basic stripes with ribbon yarn.

I have been surfing the net for hairpin lace instructions and inspiration. There is some information about it, but it seems that haripin lace is not much studied technique.

I only was able to find one designer who has done some modern looking work with Hairpin lace. There is a free project of Carnivale cardiwrap at Interweave Crochet website. Same designer, Jennifer Hansen, has also some interesting patterns for sale at Stitch diva.

As I am more "I will desing this myself" type of crafter I am drawn to those patterns just for inspiration rather than strict following of them, but I must say the designs are impressive. I want to learn to use this medium to create clothes that are wearable and confortable.

Besides, haripin lace seems to be quite addictive.

Scarf

I did a quick project as I needed a scarf that could be used to cover some formal outforms. It is just basic knitting but the lush yarn makes this looks stunning.

This can be wearen many different ways, but I am planning on making a broach to attach it to showlder. I am pondering between using brown pearl buttons or then doing the thing with polymerclay.

Some works from past month

Have not updated this blog in few weeks.
Did a basic triangular crocheted scarf (two evening projects) and played with icord. The belt is made with icord and sideways knitted loops. I did an article about Icord to Finnish web knitting magazine Ulla, the article is here.

I also did neckalces to resemble shuttle for MIL, she has an old crafting group called shuttle guild and she asked me to make something for their 30th reunion party. So I made theese necklaces out of clay, glass beads and waxed chord.