It's finished! This is what I was designing, a necklace inspired by the Biblical passage "They shall beat their swords into plowshares...." Micah 4:3 and Isaiah 2:4.
Anyway, I tried to capture in tatting the suggestion of a sword handle with the bottom part flattened into a plowshare, or at least a shovel. The center is colorful and floral-like, an attempt to convey growth and peace. The beads at the center add sparkle and also weight to try to keep the necklace centered.
This is probably too epic of a theme for my limited abilities, but the inspiration came to mind, so I had to try!
27 comments:
It's wonderful!! Anna
Goodness me how do you do it? Lovely design. I now have your book, as you know, kindly purchased by Sue Anna and longing to find the time to make something from it.
Amazing job!!! I love it :)
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! Congrats on another fabulous design! :)
What a fascinating idea! It turned out lovely (as usual) but to have a necklace which represents a concept is so amazing. You are very talented!
Executed to perfection! It really does convey the inspiration passage. Besides that -- it's pretty!
Gee, thanks! Here I was thinking the design wasn't much good...I'm glad you like it. It's tricky, but I hope to get the pattern written up soon.
Great job! It is nice to see a concept into a live project. You are so inspirational.
Very beautiful - not musical, then....... but maybe that will be inspiration for another time!
I love the colours.
What an amazing concept and design! It's always fun to 'watch' you develop your fabulous ideas, which are then tatted to perfection.
That is wonderful! I do hope you'll offer the pattern for sale!
lovely
Fantastic idea, designed and tatted beautifully!
Very nice!
I too think you did a very good job of bringing your concept to fruition. and I like the color in the center as a focal point. congrats on your new necklace design.
Beautiful !
Fabulous.....
Amazing!! I love it!!!
Wow, I love it! The idea as well as the design - fantastic!
What a wonderful and well executed idea! I love it!
I think you did a beautiful job putting what you envisioned into a tatted piece of jewelry :)
Gosh its wonderful, it really looks like a sword ends and the colours are brilliant. well done.
Margaret
Beautiful - a wonderful harbinger of creations to appear in 2012!
Happy New Year, Marilee!
Fox ; )
That is beautiful and unique!! :)What a great place to find inspiration!
Happy New Year
wonderful tatting
What a wonderful inspiration. Wow, scripture in tatting. Well done, putting it into a design. Nice!
Thank you all for the encouraging comments! The pattern is finished now and listed in my Etsy shop
http://www.etsy.com/listing/90283763/pdf-tatting-pattern-swords-into
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