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Spiny Knotted Necklace

It was supposed to be a bracelet. I don’t DO bracelets…they make me crazy, banging and flapping and generally being a nuisance and getting in the way. Here’s a picture of what I had at the end of a 4 hour class….considering how long it takes to put together a quilt, I felt this was moving at lightning speed!

But Hilary Ervin, a member of Art Quilts Maine, had been making these incredible bracelets during or bi-monthly AQM meetings. And I kept thinking about them…..so finally I asked. And then Deborah Boschert figured out that the lady who taught the class was teaching at The Beadin Path in Freeport (also home to LL Bean). The teacher is Stephanie Sersich—see the post for March 20th for the hotlink to her website. So I signed up right away, despite the cost because (tippety tap) I had just sold my Brooks and Branches piece at the Ducktrap Bay Trading Company and decided I deserved just a bit of a splurge!

Having looked at Hilary’s bracelets, I figured it wouldn’t be that hard to modify it (there I go changing things) into a necklace. I bought some lucite / vintage lucite beads and things via the Beadin’ Path website, and figured I’d buy anything else I needed the morning before the class (the store is almost 2 hours away, so didn’t want to spend 4 hours and a lot of gas money just to buy beads). I will not confess how much I spent on beads. Let’s just say it’s a good thing two more small pieces sold (quite unexpectedly…I wasn’t anticipating any sales until summer—yeah!) last month, to help cover my indulgences.

Here’s a picture of the whole thing:

And a close up of the fancy part:

And, believe it or not, finally a picture of me wearing the necklace, which you can barely see because I’m holding my wonderful new digital camera, the Panasonic DMC-FZ30!

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