Necklace on My Mind - part 2
As often happens, the picture in my head is more difficult to construct in real life than to create in my mind. In the previous post I left you thinking I would just make a replacement steel bead for the one that collapsed in the kiln. I tried! The replacement was much more ragged than the first one and unusable for this project. I think I'll be able to create an interesting bead using it but not for this post. Rather than go through the process of making a third bead, I decided to try to reshape the original. A long metal rod was inserted and I hammered and after several tries it worked! Time to decide what beads I would use with the steel ones I made. I started with the ones in the picture. And I added and rearranged and added and played with the shapes and colors. When I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted to use I started stringing. At some point I realized I needed to make the center dan...