Monika

Monika, a photo by Dabu's Macrame Creations on Flickr.

redid my old design for someone called Monika - it was fun!

black butterfly

201312 black butterfly, a photo by Dabu's Macrame Creations on Flickr.

ivory necklace

ivory necklace, a photo by Dabu's Macrame Creations on Flickr.

... with the beads from my dear aunt :-)

brown turquoise choker

brown turquoise choker, a photo by Dabu's Macrame Creations on Flickr.

Green Stone Choker

..some green stone and a lot of improvising.

Creative Crisis

There're two reasons why I get stuck:
1. if there're more than two projects lying around unfinished because they did't turn the way I intended
2. if there is a riddle I can't solve no matter how hard I try

Inventing one's own designs is very much like cooking without a recipe. Sometimes you get very lucky, your food is tasty and your guests ask you for the recipe because they're sure there is one. These are the precious moments that fill me with dangerous trust in my own improvising skills. But there is also a difference between cooking and knotting: you throw away your bad cooking experiment, but your unlucky macrame one stays there with you, lying around waiting to be disassembled...

I'm also frustrated about a technique which I'm sure should be rather simple but I just don't get it. I spent a week trying to copy a curl like in this necklace. These are really great works by the way, do not look improvised at all :)

Recycling

201307 brown choker, a photo by Dabu's Macrame Creations on Flickr.

Everything but the cord on this choker is recycled. The beads and both metal rings came from two different necklaces, which were given to me because the owner doesn't like them anymore or they are uncomfortable to wear - women have there reasons why they buy jewelry and don't wear it :) So I made this choker as a birthday present to the nice lady who gave me the both pieces. I hope she likes it.