Finally a jewellery piece montage

I remembered this time to photograph the necklace as I put it together.

Here goes...

This is what it looks like when the piece of lace is finished, but still on the pillow waiting to be cut off (like it has been for 3 days!)

A close up so you can see the pins in their places and how the pattern card below might be used to figure out where your wires and pins go.

Here, I have removed it from the pillow and added a bead to finish off the long plaited section. I am yet to decide how to finish the ends at the top of it... Hmmmm

I decided to disappear them into the lace. Think this has worked well. It's not easy to see where the wires might have finished.

I then attached a ball and chain necklace. I had to find a YouTube video to watch to figure out the clasp as I've never used a ball an chain necklace before. It's actually a lot more simple than I was trying to make it!

Now I hope the person I made it for likes it :)

Finally a jewellery piece montage

I remembered this time to photograph the necklace as I put it together.

Here goes...

This is what it looks like when the piece of lace is finished, but still on the pillow waiting to be cut off (like it has been for 3 days!)

A close up so you can see the pins in their places and how the pattern card below might be used to figure out where your wires and pins go.

Here, I have removed it from the pillow and added a bead to finish off the long plaited section. I am yet to decide how to finish the ends at the top of it... Hmmmm

I decided to disappear them into the lace. Think this has worked well. It's not easy to see where the wires might have finished.

I then attached a ball and chain necklace. I had to find a YouTube video to watch to figure out the clasp as I've never used a ball an chain necklace before. It's actually a lot more simple than I was trying to make it!

Now I hope the person I made it for likes it :)

Strike while the iron is hot

I am the iron. I learnt a lot about a lot of useful tools today and I would like to put them in to action. I read some great inspiring articles that mostly all say that if you want to be a successful creative person, making a living out of your creativeness, you need to work hard for it, not in a bad way, just in a purposeful way.

I had always assumed that well known artists, musicians, designers or actors probably just flitted around doing what they enjoyed and somebody saw them and made them famous. That justified me not even trying to get anywhere with my hopeful creativeness. I find this is pretty much wholly untrue, which means I need to get my butt into gear and work to get my stuff out there.

There. That is the beginning of this time's attempt at getting it out there.

I said previously I would say more about Mum. The above photo is of a necklace which I made using Mum's lace. This is what all my work does. Mum, Vicki Taylor, is a hugely talented bobbin lace maker and all round textile artist. Her work inspires me to want to make stuff.. Any stuff. 

This is Mum hard at work learning to manipulate Perspex in a class we did together at ContextArt 2012. The above necklace used some of the techniques we learnt together.

This is Mum (right) with her good friend Francis Keevil. Francis owns a gallery in Double Bay, Sydney and has been very inspirational and encouraging for Mum in her art endeavours.

Right now I must snap to it and do some work on our Facebook site (The Studio) and figure out how to use Instagram.