Lariath- Live a Little.

After practicing making the candy stripe bracelet and the lizard alpha pattern I wanted to try something bigger and a little more complicated. This took me quite a while to make... I managed to get through a few seasons of the L Word whilst making it. 19 black background strings were needed to make this bracelet, I use embroidery thread. 15 of these strings were 40inches long and 4 were made longer. The longer strings I used to make macramé knots for the loop and tails of the buckle. A tutorial for the buckle can be found here:  http://friendship-bracelets.net/tutorial.php?id=24 . I used one full red skein and the start of a second skein and only a bit of white to complete this. (More technical: I used 7 black strings that were 80inches long and folded them to make 14 strings at 40inches long, 1 black string I cut to 40inches and the macramé strings were two strings at about 90 inches long also folded into two to make 4 strings. Believe it or not that makes 19 background string...

One of my dream catchers broke which I'm not too happy about, but waste not want not, what could I do with the feathers?... So In addition to my Ear Cuffs  I decided to try making an earring. For this all I used was an old earring that I don't really like and have never worn and turned it into something I would wear. I've always liked feather earrings but never bought any so thought I'd give it a try.  Using the wire I used to make the Ear Cuffs  I made a small loop in the wire about an inch in from the end using pliers. I lay the feather along the inch of wire the thick part of the feather just under the loop. Using the pliers I made a coil as tight as I could around the feather and the inch of wire to keep the feather in place. When I was happy that the feather wasn't going to slip out I cut the wire and folded the end in so it wouldn't poke me constantly. I also trimmed a bit off the inch of wire at the end as it was a bit long.  (If none of this makes...