These photos are terrible, they were taken in 2011 with a potato. Looking back, all the photos on my old blog would have been this fuzzy. Yikes.
About a hundred years ago I made a couple of crocheted chain necklaces. They were by way of an experiment really, just a single strand with a bead every few stitches. They came out pretty long but I figured that I could wear them doubled up. Then I didn’t wear them at all. I was making that much stuff back then that it was just piling up. I tried selling some but had no takers so it all got packed up into a box.
I have posted previously about the box and unpacking it and dismantling most of the stuff I’d made. I liked these necklaces though and left them in one piece. I was going out the other week and, feeling a little whimsical, I put a bunch of my handmade necklaces on including these two, wrapped around twice. The pink one was fine but the dark one is a little shorter and after a while became decidedly scratchy. I decided to make it longer.
I'm not sure about that bronze fastener, I wasn't sure about the silver one on the original but it may have looked better than this.
Taking these to bits is really simple; once you’ve found the right end it’s just a case of pulling the wire and it all comes undone. I obviously had to add some more beads in and I obviously didn’t have any more of the little flower ones but I had some other fairly similar ones and used those.
It is a bit longer than the pink one because I’m either rubbish at maths or just can’t count. Both probably. But it isn’t strangley any more which is the important point.
I would be interested in opinions about the bronze fixings and whether or not I should have stuck with silver ones.