If you recall from yesterday, I had nine of those purple glass beads left. There were five cylinders, three round ones, and one teardrop. I couldn't be completely symmetrical with that count, but if I pretended that the teardrop was round, I could. A teeny bit of asymmetry is nice every once in a while. I found some small round beads that matched really well. They're something between pink and purple and are transparent enough to blend in with the larger beads.
Yesterday I created the bracelet by starting with the clasp ends and working toward the center. For the necklace, I knew what I wanted the middle bead to be, so I worked out from the center. I interspersed a few of the small rounds between the bigger beads but remembered my mission was to use all of those purple glass beads.
Here's how it looked after a few segments:
My necklace beading board is still missing, but my trusty ruler worked just fine for what I was doing. I centered the bead at the 8.5" mark because I wanted the necklace to be around 17" before I added the clasp so the finished necklace would be around 18".
Here's the entire finished necklace:
Here's a closeup of the middle bit on a lighter background:
Okay - now that those beads are used up, I'm going to go work on the triangle bracelet. Sawtooth? No, I just looked at sawtooth images. The bracelet doesn't have that kind of slant. It's more like a zigzagging zigzag. Anyone have any ideas? Leave a comment here, please!
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