I had a few hours to kill the other morning - too long to sit around, but not long enough to properly start an ami project, so I thought I'd try my hand at crocheting with wire. I had a strand of beautiful blue goldstone pieces, just perfect for the delicate base of chained wire. First off I made a bracelet. It's a lot prettier than the photos make it out to be, Blue Goldstone is hard to capture.


Then I added in some seed beads, and made a necklace - I fear it may be addictive, this jewellery making thing...


Yep, throughly addictive - but I had to make earrings to complete the set didn't I?

I saw this pattern on Ravelry, and just had to get my hands on a copy of Vogue Knitting's Crochet Special Collector's Issue 2012 just to make this cute necklace. I like the fancy stone/plain cotton look they went with, but I thought I'd give it a go with this gorgeous rainbow silk embroidery thread and a plain river rock from my own garden. It just shows that even the most common, everyday things, can be pretty and magical if you look at them in the right way.

A necklace I made a while back for my partner in the International Snack Swap. It was a very simple construction and whipped up nice and quick too. Pattern from creativeyarn via Ravelry

The only change I made was to slip stitch back up the vine instead of cutting and reattaching the yarn. SS 100+ chains wasn't fun, but the extra stability and neater look was worth it.