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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

It grew around a bottle cap

Nearly a year ago, I bought a bottle cap pendant from the seller in the booth next to mine at the Discovery World Holiday Artisan Market. I told her at the time that I'd tat it into something.  
Well, now I have!


I added some gears into the necklace by joining into them with normal joins while tatting.

By fiddling around with the ring, I discovered that the tatted ring could be easily maneuvered to lie under the gear, so the gear would be prominent on top of the tatting.

I decided to call this design Newcastle because that was written on the other side of the bottle cap.

23 comments:

  1. Wow - That's so nice!!

    Amazing what we can do when we leave our imaginations to run wild. LOL!

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  2. Marilee,
    That is so cool! I love how gears are able to be turned into something fancier than would be expected by some. Simply amazing!

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  3. Thanks!
    Lily, you got it - I did just let my imagination run wild!

    BSOTF, it was fun playing around with those gears - I didn't have a clue what I was going to use them for at first.

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  4. I envy your mind. *sigh* That is incredibly creative and the colors are so just right.

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  5. Wow this is an amazing piece! Love the creative combination of elements.

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  6. Thanks, Marty. My mind is okay for some stuff, but not much good for many other things, LOL.

    Thank you, Jen. The idea started coming to me once I had a few of those elements laid out together.

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  7. Very very nice, Marilee!

    So interesting to see how people get inspired ;-)

    A bead on the thread and tat!

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  8. Your necklace looks wonderful! What a neat idea, to get your inspiration from something like a bottle cap - of course, it's a pretty cool bottle cap. The gears make quite an accent on it.

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  9. OMGG this is sooooo beautiful - I LOVE it and hope my monies improve so I can order it for myself!! This is the most beautiful one I've seen in ages. LOVELY!!!

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  10. Wow! Stunning! I can almost envision all sorts of Steampunk tatted jewelry.
    I'm not sure my imagination is as good as yours though. :)

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  11. Beautiful! I wish I could wear something like this but I'll just admire it instead. The design and workmanship are superb!

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  12. just goes to prove that Tatting goes with everything!

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  13. I agree. Beyond cool!! I am envious and you are talented! Thank you for sharing it with us.

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  14. That's soooo.. cool!
    And it is so pretty!
    Love it.

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  15. Thank you to everyone for such wonderful comments!
    Interesting to see that so many people find tatting is "cool" :)

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  16. I have to say ...I love your new necklace!! It is beautiful!!

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  17. Marilee! This awesome and the chain attached is great. Do you starch the work after tatting it?

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  18. Most of the time I don't stiffen my tatted pieces. The thread used in this one is size 10 Lizbeth, which has quite a bit of firmness to begin with. The beaded part sticking up in the middle of this particular necklace is a little heavy, but I think the surrounding chains should support it enough. Anyway, I'll just leave it - I don't think it needs any starch.

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  19. This is positively medieval-looking! I can see it on the neck of a noblewoman... at a great fĂȘte!
    You do astounding work!
    Fox : )

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  20. It's your most beautiful necklace. Wonderful!

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  21. What an awesome necklace! I'm always amazed at the clever ideas you come up with. :)

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