Spider In My Stash
Apr. 3rd, 2006 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaI have no idea whether I need to bring my crimping pliers to RoL tomorrow. I hope they e-mail tomorrow morning to let me know. It won't do any harm to bring them along even if we don't use them, I suppose.
Speaking of which, when I was out bead-shopping with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
starcat_jewel, one of the pieces I picked up was a silver pendant in the shape of a spider, a little more than an inch long from front legs to back legs and a little more than half an inch wide across the legspan, with black enamel on its abdomen. Now, such a large pendant requires a proper setting. So here's what I've been thinking:
A collar of black seed beads with an iridescent finish done in diamond netting, with a triangular base and about three rows deep, with the rows fairly large (maybe ten beads on each side of each rhombus), with some sort of gemstone focal beads at the vertices, and a different set of gemstone focal beads in a contrasting shape and color (maybe chips instead of round beads?) at the points at the edge of the collar. The pendant is set, not at the front focal point, but slightly off-center so that its front limbs are actually on the netting.
For those of you who are more experienced at sewn beadwork (rather than strung), does that sound like it will work? How strong a thread am I going to need for that? Will the gemstone beads make it too heavy, and what types of stones would you recommend? (I'm sort of thinking of 4mm garnet rounds, but those might be too big, and the contrast with the black seed beads might not be strong enough.)
Speaking of which, when I was out bead-shopping with
starcat_jewel, one of the pieces I picked up was a silver pendant in the shape of a spider, a little more than an inch long from front legs to back legs and a little more than half an inch wide across the legspan, with black enamel on its abdomen. Now, such a large pendant requires a proper setting. So here's what I've been thinking:A collar of black seed beads with an iridescent finish done in diamond netting, with a triangular base and about three rows deep, with the rows fairly large (maybe ten beads on each side of each rhombus), with some sort of gemstone focal beads at the vertices, and a different set of gemstone focal beads in a contrasting shape and color (maybe chips instead of round beads?) at the points at the edge of the collar. The pendant is set, not at the front focal point, but slightly off-center so that its front limbs are actually on the netting.
For those of you who are more experienced at sewn beadwork (rather than strung), does that sound like it will work? How strong a thread am I going to need for that? Will the gemstone beads make it too heavy, and what types of stones would you recommend? (I'm sort of thinking of 4mm garnet rounds, but those might be too big, and the contrast with the black seed beads might not be strong enough.)
