some yewellery

I ridid some of the yewellery of my book "Just for fun", and I worked also some new ones: have a look at them

orange and green

The white pearl beads exalt every other color, I tried out also other colors, but they have not the same beautiful effect. Only between the white ones the others are nice. Though the earring is big, with lots of beads, it is not heavy at the ear.
Now I have to work the second of the pair.

lilac and orange

I'm trying out some other color combination, which is always very difficult with some waste of precious thread.
I found that lilac and orange match pleasantly.
This earring has no difficult techniques, except perhaps the maltese ring, which somebody of you does not know. Perhaps a challenge would be to work some patterns with maltese technique to show.
The only bad thing for me, who I'm a very lazy woman, is that there are 6 threadends to hide at the end of the work, as I leave no knots around, which could open.

earrings for Azzurra 2

This is one earring of the second pair of earrings I designed for my friend Azzurra, with the beads she gave me.
I worked very hard to find a satisfying solution for the read irregular coral beads.
But I think she will like this!
Some technical information: As we are working with thread and this is not stiff, I needed some technique to make it stay. So I used a bit thicker wire, which I took double around, and knottet around it to create the inner ring of the outer round. So this holds good.
The inner ring is surrounded by a maltese ring, whereby the inner beads are the center ring of the maltese ring. This holds good.
The upper piece with the earring finding is also partially worked on the same wire, but not taken double. Here the wire goes from the side through the red beads and the to the other side.

images of earrings

Marta from Poland has worked the earrings and she has made also a symmetrical piece. You can see them on her blog.


Karen has send me this nice picture of her version of the earrings on the vase.









And this is Johanna's version of the earrings
Those of you who have worked the earrings, please write me, you will recieve a surprise!

earrings for Azzurra

My friend Azzurra gave me a box with various beads and asked me to make her a pair of "important" earrings. Fortunately I hade some precious time in South Italy, where my husband made everything for me and I could tat the whole time I liked to. So I had wonderful inspirations and after a lot of trying and retrying I realized this pair of earrings for my friend:
The image is not very clear, because I scanned them, but I think you can see enough to appreciate them.

Colour combinations

I have hold on my new creations for a moment and I'm making some items for an exhibition in South Italy, where I hope to sell a bit, to get back some of the money, which I have to spend for the exhibitions.
The crosses are made with a wire inside to hold them in the right shape, though I did not reach Elizabeth's perfection. I would so much know her secret. I will teach the technique to insert the wire, when I will be in Berkeley in February.
The Spring earrings are fast to make and stiff enaugh. I'm trying out different color combinations.
The Easy earrings are also very fast to make. The rose ones are in silk thread I got as gift from the japanese ladies, when I taught tatting in Japan. You can find the earrings in my book "Just for Fun". If you have tried out the Spring earrings, you will be able to know how I made the crosses.