Saturday 11 February 2017

Braiding and Beading

Just a couple of little makes this week.
I finished this braided cowl for Naomi (yarn and pattern from Deramores here)


It's done with two variegated wools (red/pink and black/grey) worked together in a tweeded stitch. Not too tricky once I got the hang of which stitches to slip on which row. The same cannot be said for the combination of navy/blue and black/grey which I'm currently knitting up for myself, as I can't tell the two colours apart under electric light!
And here are some little Swarowski crystal heart pendants, which as you can see were so much fun that I couldn't stop at just one, so one each for the girls, one for me and one that didn't work out quite so well because the black beading thread showed through the crystals


Hard to get the colours of these to photograph well but we have (clockwise from top right) Metallic Silver, Turquoise AB, Rose Alabaster, and Lavender ABx2

9 comments:

Preeti said...

Lovely cowl!! The crystal pendants are beautiful!

Mary - Lecoeurceltique said...

I like that cowl in your colour choices. The crystal pendants are lovely. I'm sure the girls are glad you made more than one.

Julie said...

Snuggly cowl, loving that.

stitchingranny said...

A very pretty collection of your talents Christine.

The Knitting Cross Stitcher said...

Your cowl is very pretty.

Tiffstitch said...

Beautiful work and the pendants look lovely! I can't tell which pendant you had issues with, they all look wonderful.

Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...

The cowl is gorgeous, lovely colours. It looks like a wreath hung on the door!
The pendants are very beautiful too.

Kaisievic said...

Wonderful cowl and you are so amazing to make such gorgeous pendants.

Sheryl said...

Gorgeous pendants,