Friday night results

Just to show some of the results from friday night's labour.

I tried to make a Snake knot bracelet - first attempt. You generally need more leather cord than usually. I think that I will need ca. 1,5m of each colour to make one i my size (16cm).

A thin version (8 strings) of the Kumihimo flat braid

A wide version (16 strings) of the Kumihimo flat braid. I did 4 different versions before I was satisfied, sometimes the strings cross each other in a way they are not supposed too. However, next time I will switch the place of the closing button and make the loop at the start.

(I know my pictures are not showing all the small details, but I only have my phone camera)

Scheduled procratinations... hmmm

I am a bit busy at the moment (as all other students) with projects, exams and preperations for my master thesis. Although I want to do some of my creative projects, I have to focus on my study. However, at the moment I just have so many different things I want to try to make and you know it is hard to keep your hands from these. So I have to schedule my small projects :) But I suppose that it is not different from other people who have similar project.


Tonight I will spend the evening making differnt bracelets and earrings that people have ordered, so they can have them before christmas :). My grandmother recieved the 5 bracelets that I have made for her to give to some children, she was just so happy and appreciative that I had spend time to make them. And what makes my grandmother happy makes me happy too. Hopefully I will make some more people happy with the results of tonights labour!



I have a little project with my Kumihimo disk, hopefully it will turn out well!
Looking forward to have more time to experiment with colour, patterns and material on the Kumihimo disk. Perhaps I will get one of the books that I have wished for christmas, who knows!

What is your next project?

Rubber twisted bracelet

I ordered some rubber cord the other day together with some coloured leather cord. I wanted to make a rubber bracelet I saw in a magazine. I was however, a little bit corcerned how I could make the rubber cord stick, without glueing too much (Glue and I are not always best friends). The idea was to twist the rubber cord around another piece of cord (I used a 4-5mm leather cord). The rubber cord was hollow, so it laid itself flat as I twisted it around the leather cord and I finished with a dot of glue in the ends. I also triede with a 2mm bronce leather cord on the other leather cord, but the result was not as god as with the rubber. In order to make it work with e leather I had to use much more glue.



Left; a bronce twisted leather bracelet, right; a rubber twisted bracelet.

Wool balls on a necklace

Talking about colour-spalsh yesterday, today I made this necklace:

The form is not quite as I wanted it to be, but it is very hard to rearrange them (or at least for me and my big fingers after you have put 10 balls of so together) when you have finished. It is a very different piece of jewelry!

I started to pull a headpin through each wool ball; this demanded some strenght in my hand and I am a bit sore now. Then I made a loop so I could connect my wool balls with my jump rings. Here you have to be patient, if you like me have some trouble reaching in to the jump rings.

Perhaps there is a better and easier way to connect the wool balls with each other, beacause it takes some time.

In my first 'draft' for this piece, I had made the wool ball myself, but they did not end up as pretty as I wanted them to be, therefore I bought some, which was cheaper if I wanted to make them myself in the same colours.

Try-out

It happens that I get an idea sometimes. And in my head the result of this idea is just great. However this might not be the case when the idea is brought to life.

My idea was to make a monkey's fist knot with a bit of colour splash, so it could be used as a pendent/charm on a leather cord or rubber cord.



So I started to braid (round braid) some small ribbons. This actually took a while, due to the lenght I needed to make the knot.

The result was as the above picture visualise a 'ball' of colour... where it is hard to se the 'knot design'. Not at all what I expected.

What do you think?