Inspiration….. Pewter Lace
magikquilter July 14th, 2008
The inspiration for this set of beaded jewellery came from my totally gorgeous knitted boucle jacket which was an unusual purchase for me as it is unusual for me to buy a new garment especially when its not on sale or not my birthday or Christmas. This lightweight jacket has contrasting pewter knitted lace which is especially stunning on the sleeves which are gorgeously long and drape over the fingers in a sort of princess or witchy fashion.
I bought this to wear to my good friend young Daniel’s Barmitzvah although I ended up not wearing it as I thought that the dress code would be more sombre for the temple. Duh…my friend wore gold spangles and others wore bright colours so it would have been both tasteful and different as a lot of women wore suits. I ended up wearing a black skirt and a black with teal swirls knitted top with a teal long cardigan…nice but not as special as this. Think I shall wear it for our 25th wedding anniversary celebration in September…if we
get there that is!!!.
As I was going to wear this I felt that some special jewellery was called for and so I sorted through my beads and found only a handful in the colours of the jacket and realised I would need to buy a lot of beads to get the mix of these shades that I desired. Luckily our local shops have a good quality discount shop which stocks products from businesses that have closed and I was able to find some glass bottles of mixed beads and mixed packets as well. These had lots of different colours which were not in my colour scheme so I bought several packets of the smaller beads and two bottles of the larger ones so that I would have enough beads in these colourways. I really love the bronze and slate grey in these necklaces…would never have dreamed of that myself and also find that they soften the green beads which were much darker in shade than I usually use! For a while I was going to make three necklaces but settled for two as one sits nicely inside the other and they really dress up an outfit.
