Wild Violet Necklace
Sometimes design just evolves. I wanted to make a toggle set from polymer for a knitted green chain I made. I started with Premo green, purple, light green, and translucent clay. I was thinking: floral - wild violets http://www.garden.org/weedlibrary/?q=show&id=2397 green leaves tiny formed flowers green and purple I also had decorative copper head pins and I wondered if I could incorporate those and make them connect the toggle set to the chain. I played with the circle and the cut out for the toggle. As you can see I ended up with tiny purple flowers raised on translucent circles laying on green leaves. And they reminded me of wild violets. The toggle needed to be another leaf with a violet that fit onto the round leaf. After getting the width and length of the leaf correct, I added the decorative head pin and bent it to a circle. I placed a tiny purple ball of polymer on top of the head and cured...