Friday, October 18, 2024

Progress on the leaf necklace

 

Having completed tatting enough lace leaves (despite being interrupted several times by more urgent matters) I was faced with the question of how to join them all together. One of those creator's block moments. Fortunately, I had some reject leaves left over to practice joining ideas on, which besides giving me an idea of stitch counts showed that green was not the color thread I wanted. Dark charcoal gray shows off the leaves much better! Similar to tree bark from a distance.


This is still a work in progress. I missed the deadline for a juried fiber art exhibit that I had planned to submit to, but there will be others. 

The leaf pattern is vintage, though I tweaked it a little to make different sizes. More about the leaf pattern on this post.


4 comments:

Lavinia said...

That looks lovely!

muskaan said...

Reminds me of Hawaiian dancers ... lovely 😍

Jane McLellan said...

That’s clever. I thought you might thread them onto one of those wire rings, but that would be too simple.

Lace-lovin' Librarian ~ Diane said...

I like your choice of the charcoal grey. It does make a nice blend with the colorful leaves.