Showing posts with label choker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label choker. Show all posts

Monday, July 11, 2011

nuntium duodetricesimum (28th post) 2 steps forward, 2 steps back

It's tough to cut off 1.5 hours of work.

But that's how it goes when you attach in the wrong place and then do the next motif too and only realize the bad attachment at the end of the second motif!

So I took a break and made a little choker for someone with a lovely neck.  (Motif #8).  I just sort of made this up with a few starts and stops.  I used a metallic thread from JoAnn's called Kreiznik and the revies is: "It itches".

On the other hand, I taught older daughter to do split rings yesterday and she picked it right up!  It took me 32 years to learn it... 

Here's a fun hankie from Aunt Rose-E:

Latin for today:  tempestates canem terrent = Thunderstorms scare the dog.  Click to hear -