Red and Blue

While the sun did come out yesterday, I was unfortunately out of the house at the time, thus no listings of the star necklaces yet. We were on a tour of UC Merced as an outing with the kids school. We'd been out there years ago when it opened, but it's been around for 11 years now, so things have gotten quite a bit bigger and better. Our kids are really too young to much care about what the guide shared about 'campus life', but it was still pretty out there.

When we were home I managed to get two more star necklaces completed. The picture of the blue one doesn't really captures the turquoise and teal threads in the middle accurately, but you get the basic idea. The fiery colored one doesn't quite look like itself either. The outer round is true red, but it appears more orange here to me.

I still want to do one in purples, so I'll start that this morning and if the sun graces us with its presence then I'll try to get photos with my 'real' camera so the colors are more accurate. The rain is suppose to be back tomorrow, so I hope we do get a little sun first. I'd really like to see if people like these enough that they actually sell. I'm crossing my fingers now.

Star Making

I had a bit of a disagreement with the large star necklace. It just didn't want to sit right and I didn't want to make it behave. So, I turned my attention back to the individual star. I though I'd just go ahead and use my new 'chain' design to make it a necklace instead of just putting a jump ring on it to make it a pendant. Then since there was no sun in the sky for pictures, in fact it was raining all day, I grabbed some more colors and went back to making.





This is four shades of Lizbeth greens. It was the first color I saw
multiple shades of in my thread box, so I went with it. After the photo I did make it's chain as well. Then after I shared on my Facebook page, I started one in blues. Other suggestions were pinks/purples, and fiery colors. I think I might make all the colors I can think of and then list them. Or at least make until the sun comes out and then get pictures taken.  The sun is becoming quite rare around these parts as El Nino is trying to undo our drought. It won't work, but it's trying. It's one of the reason I've been lazy about listing pieces in my shop, but only one of the reasons. So here's to a productive day of start making.

Mulit Star

I started the day by reading the last book of the Dark Tower series. I started the whole thing over a month ago and it's a bit weird to be leaving that world, but I was satisfied by the ending, so I'm good. You figure I would just take a break from reading now, but no I went ahead and read the last book in another trilogy that I was reading before. The last one came out while I was reading the Dark Tower books, so I really wanted to finish reading that story as well. I might take a reading break now, maybe, probably not.

I did also get to some tatting though. I worked up the star in a different color for each round and I really like the way it looks. I went with grays and black, because, well I'm me. I think I'll turn both the black one and this one into a pendant, though they are pretty big as one.

I also went ahead and worked a little more on the necklace version. I divided up the star and used just two points worth to add to the ends. I think I'll finish it off with a split ring chain so it lays well. Sometimes those Josephine knot chains have a mind of their own, but I'll have to see how it looks. I might even use a lock chain and split rings. Clearly I have no idea what I'm doing next. I'm sure I'll figure it all out soon enough.