She's here at last. And her name? Well, it just came to me, so I used it as I often do when those first words come to mind. This is another of those names or groups of words, which I may never know the origin of, however, sometimes they prove to be quite profound and fitting in the end.
This necklace is made from yellow turquoise* tube beads that I collected several years ago, to go with another piece of my yellow turquoise*, but as usually happens, the shades were not cohesive, so I held on to the tube beads and then one day, there it was, a gorgeous piece of yellow turquoise* that appeared, mixed with its white matrix and actually stunning in its cut, a vertical freeform cut that appeared like a jib sail in full run. Then, while I was working with it, I accidently snapped off the top of the stone (a first for me) and with a crushed heart, I almost discarded the stone. Problem was, I had fallen for it, as I have with many of my precious "signature stones" that I have collected over the years. So discarding it was not an easy option for me to deal with. Looking at it lying there, I wondered "what can I do with this now?" Then it came to me: Lash it, yes! LASH IT! After spending many years is the Girl Scouts as a young person, I had learned how to lash many things, like tables, and chairs, you know simple everyday objects that would definitely get me voted off of "Survivor" for the mere fact that I can actually survive, if it were a real thing...which means death to a participant, on the TV show.
I lashed this stone horizontally, where I could get a grip on the stone, then added my collected tube beads (which, by the way, would have had to wait until I could find another perfect piece of yellow turquoise*, in the correct shade, which does not happen very often). I used my special waxed polycord (I have 2 sizes, and it took some real searching to find this cordage, like one place in the US, so far), and I lashed this stone into a necklace. The tube beads (I love tube beads) knotted, then looped back through and knotted at the other end, so they are now suspended, floating, and stable, since the tube beads have rather large holes, and there is nothing worse than knotting a piece of jewelry with matching stones, only to find some have larger holes and the knots then slip through, which is thoroughly unfitting in my view. Since I refuse to 'shim' just one stone in a matching bead necklace, and may not like the appearance of every stone being shimmed (the alternative to one shimmed stone); I decided to do the knotted looped method for stability.
That being said, This is the new necklace. A MisFit, in the very fitting piece for this venue.
I hope you like her. I certainly do.
*there really is no such stone named yellow turquoise, it cannot be yellow; and must have some form of blue in it to techincally be turquoise, so this might be howlite, though it doesn't look like howlite either. At Etsy, I have been calling it the bastard stone...bastard turquoise, since turquoise seems to be the name applied to any colored stone with veins these days.
hardened, hammered again and then little turquoise disks of 16mm (or so) were wire wrapped and lashed to the bottom of the copper. Brown niobium ear wires with copper balls were used at the tops, and these earring are long and pretty... hanging a full 3 inches.
