And another necklace

[ellarien]

Sometimes the beads just tell me what they want to be and how they want to go together. Sometimes I spend a few days noodling them in my head before the design takes shape. Sometimes they hang around for months, waiting to fall into place. It's a bit like writing, that way, though so far the timescales are rather more compressed.

This one -- tiger eye, brown shell, brown ceramic -- was one of the first kind. I bought the beads this afternoon and put them together as soon as I got home.

Comments

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

Ooh!

They're all lovely, but that one is especially so.

And it's like that for me, with fabric. Sometimes something screams what it is and needs to be. Other times, well, it's fabric, and full of potential, but I have to wait and figure out what it's going to come together into.

[ellarien]

Thank you! It's an interesting process, for sure. I don't remember getting the same effect with crochet thread, which is fairly generic, but I get the impression that some knitters get something similar with fancy yarns.

[zingerella.livejournal.com]

I think fancy yarns have more personality than plain ones, to be sure. They also, to my mind, have more built-in limitations. Like beads, or fabric, for that matter.

[kicking-k.livejournal.com]

Ohh, now that is pretty. A little solar system.

I'm fairly new to knitting and have only just started to make the transition from "I want to make this - what can I use?" to "I love you, yarn, now what do you want to be?"

It makes me slower at starting projects because I'm not yet assured enough to write my own patterns.

[ellarien]

Thank you! I suppose the beads do look rather planet-like. I have some lovely variegated jaspers in my stash that remind me of those planet-pendants in one of Bujold's novels.

I've been knitting since I was very young, but mostly in prosaic, cheap-and-cheerful acrylic yarns that don't particularly speak to me.