This knot is made from Argentium silver wire. The photo was taken after pickling off the excess flux, but before other cleaning and polishing – see why I like working with this stuff? Very minimal clean-up involved. I’ve since tumble polished it and now I’m trying to decide if it’s done – a very minimalist piece – or if it should have some stones and things added to it.
This is one of several knot pieces I have in progress at the moment. I’m happy with the knot aspect, which is something I’ve been thinking of playing with for a while, but I’m not sure quite where I’m going with these.
In the meantime, I’m finishing up some resin pieces that had been set aside since the Maven Fair. I have a show this Sunday with the Pleasanton Craft Mafia (it’s at A Work of Heart Studio, 1060 Willow #7 in San Jose, CA from 11:00-3:00) and I’m hoping to have most of the currently in-progress resin pendants finished in time for the show. I did the last layer of resin on about 5 or so last night, so if it sets up well, I should have time to drill & add bails, but the pieces that still need another layer most likely won’t be done until Guerilla Fashionista in July. But more about that later….
I crocheted this cuff bracelet over the weekend. There’s an explanation of how I made it in the tutorials section of my 
Here’s a better picture of that fused pendant. It is so hard to accurately capture the detail, but you get the idea. I’m getting faster with my fusing technique, and figuring out some tricks that get the pieces to turn out the way I want them to, rather than leaving it up to trial and error. That’s one of the great things about mastering a technique – when you first learn it, there’s so much experimentaion, which is really fun and creative. Then as you get better at it, you can control the results more, and that leads to a more purposeful design process. At least that’s how it works for me – once I have a technique “down” designing becomes easy, and I often get design ideas from my experiments while I’m working on mastering the technique. I’m at the point where I can control the type of fusing I’m doing on this style pendant, so now I can focus on trying some designs I’d been thinking about.
This pendant is one I actually forgot to post a few weeks ago. This interestingly shaped stick pearl/shell (I’m not sure what the technical term is) is so beautiful that it took me a long time, after buying it, to figure out what to do with it. I went with a simple freeform wrap in Argentium sterling silver, and dangled a pearl at the end.
