Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Weighty strings

Love these challenges! Recently, Sue Jacobs posted a great idea for creating strings using... strings! This week's challenge is to do the same. I located two items, both necklaces. One is a small pottery(?) piece that showed up recently that neither I nor my husband recognize. The other is a jade disk, one of my souvenirs of two years teaching English in China.

I've been trying some unfamiliar tangles on these tiles. In this one I used Lori Howe's RIVERSTONES. Quite pretty with its two very different parts.

Tangles: Caviar, Crescent Moon, Finery, Florz, Miranda, 'Nzeppel, Riverstones

I wanted to try CZT Christina Vandervlist's new tangle OGEN. It's very similar to a pattern I have done since my university days, but I like it better. I expect you'll be seeing it again!

Tangles: Beadlines, Crescent Moon, Cubine, Finery, Florz, Flukes, Ogen, Strircles

I rather liked the strings provided by the strings, and tried one where I placed the weight off the tile and placed only the cord on the tile. I also wanted to try CZT Laurie Patterson's tangle PURZUE.
Tangles: Coaster, Diamond Panes, Knightsbridge, Purzue, Rick's Paradox, Unyun

I prepared six tiles using necklace strings, so I have three more to play with!

11 comments:

  1. Beautiful, beautiful work. I look forward to the next three!

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  2. These are great..can't wait to try this one.

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  3. Margaret, great tangle choices and your sdading always adds the right amount of pizzazz!

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  4. All 3 of these are beautiful. I'm particularly drawn to your first, but all are a feast for the eyes!

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  5. Beautiful designs! Your work is so lovely.

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  6. All of them are wonderful, but I really love all the movement in the 2nd one!

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  7. All three are pretty amazing XOXO Zoe

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  8. I love them all...would hate to have to choose just one for a favorite. Good plan to have some tiles ready to go.

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  9. Hi, waz jst passing by browzing & came across your blog. I luv your work! Its very interesting. Would luv to learn this technique. I don't think i'm familiar with it, but I luv the results. Awsm !

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