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Unraveling Night
A gift and a test and maybe slightly a bit of a failure but in a "yeah, okay" sort of way. Woven on a much smaller makeshift loom and using what was ultimately a rougher and stretchier warp yarn than I'd used before, the initial blue worked out flawlessly. Then the purple. ...The pink started off fine and then for whatever reason proved to be rather easily pulled apart by said warp yarn no matter how much I tried to compensate with extra twisting, and so they were fighting up until the end, the pink yarn fluffing up and coming apart, but it actually looked kind of neat and there was no structural integrity lost, so. Art.
The stretchy yarn was at least well suited for the very simple macrame band. As for the tiny silver beads, what can I say, it needed stars.
Crocheted Rainbow Cuffs
It started off simply, really. Then I Got an Idea! I'd also snapped up this yarn a while back because I couldn't resist the colors, but I discovered in finally playing with it that it's basically a woven silver-white core with a layer of intense color over it, so it's got a bit of a glow effect that enhances the colors even more. My kind of yarn.
I also had these beautiful brilliant glow-in-the-dark beads laying around and I felt the need to spell out "STILL HERE" on a brilliant rainbow background. Gee I wonder why in this year of 2025 in what is supposedly still the United States of America, hm. Then I did just the slightest bit of lining the space between beads with a little bit of silver holographic thread because I could and I did and I can't really describe how or why that just works better than leaving the plain black thread but no complaints. It also kind of helps reflect a little of the glow... to the human eye. The camera was not a fan of me trying to get how astonishingly neon green the glow really is, but I tried. I can assure that it is very obvious and very bright for a surprisingly long time in total darkness, but the longer you charge it, the longer the glow lasts of course.
The other two cuffs came about because I wanted to see what another "plain" one would look like, and then what the color spread would look like widened to twice the size. Now we all know!
STILL HERE cuff, Unadorned Narrow Rainbow Cuff, and Unadorned Wide Rainbow Cuff are all currently available, but I am capable of taking commissions for more.
Drama Cuff
Commissioned week-and-a-day-(oops) project. The commissioner spent an incredibly long time looking for just the right pendant/charm, but the rest was pretty easy to decide on.
This is some leftover leather from a vest that I... tore apart and repurposed into a bag that I've realized is not actually in gallery, and one edge most certainly retains evidence of that. We liked the "lived-in look", and it was already one nicely turned edge, so why mess with it? I hand-sewed the rest, because on top of not being all that intelligent, I didn't want to risk doing damage to my very solid steel sewing machine which may or may not retain the solid-ness given how thick the leather actually was in parts. Extra-sharp beading needle and pliers it was!
We also worked out a magnetic clasp as the favored approach to actually keeping it on, which looks a mess in the photos because... I forgot to clean the magnets before taking the pictures. ...Nevermind these details, it was all conditioned, cleaned up, polished, and very well-received, so that is success enough.