Bits & Pieces

Well this time I decided to finish some old projects and make some new things using little odds and ends. I also learned a few new techniques I will explain as I go along. 
    The little miser  bag on the left is made with a bit of thread I had left over from a grab bag I bought at a thrift store. I added a clip from an old garter. It says Felina on it, and I thought it might just add a fun touch. I wonder how many people even know what a garder clip is?  I also wove a small piece of silver braid through the middle and  I added a few acrylic beads
onto the ends. 
     Next is a little bracelet made with a small piece of heavy thread I had left over from another porject. 
This one has a focal bead made of agate. I put a couple of metal rose beads on either side of the focal bead. 
Simple but fun, and it used up some small scraps.


    The necklace below is made with  more black and silver thread, same as the little miser bag,and macrame over a large wooden bead.  I used a bit of cream and gold thread too. 
On the necklace part I added  old vintage black and gold acrylic beads I had in my stash of old beads. I put  leaf shaped beads from that same stash.  Also I added some black and white beads and clear glass beads. 
 

Next is a little bracelet made with glass beads in a flower pattern, and  some more thread leftovers. Fun to see what you can do with just  bits and pieces.

 I call this a little fiesta bag  because of all the bright colors.
This started at the bottom with a tiny ball of yarn,then I added the next color of the bag with a crinkle sort of yarn. I put bright assorted bone beads and a few small glass beads near the bottom. I finished it off with a button closure and some orange cotton thread.  Kind of a ball shaped bag. 

This necklace turned out to be a fun learning experience. I learned how to crochet a tube. I used to see people with long ropes of these tubes. I always wondered how they did it. Now I know. 
I attached a fringe with some micro macrame and added glass beads and little shiny bright disks like sequins.

This little bracelet is made with  micro macrame and the same kind of thread as used on the fringe of the necklace above. 
Added are some assorted glass beads as charms. I made part of the bracelet with some cord I  learned to make on a large comb. I will talk about that more below.

Here is the comb I used. I used it to make the strap for another bag I will show you how I went about doing that. It turns out the same way as the spool knitters I used when I was young. I think it is a lot faster than that way of doing it. On the internet I learned  the cord is called I-Cord. I never knew it had a name.
        The picture below shows the first step.Make a slip knot like you are going to crochet.  Put it on the first tooth of the comb just next to the edge, then  wrap the thread from behind  in a sort of e shape. Put it around as many teeth of the comb as you want. I used four in the picture, but when I did it for my bag I used 5. 
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 Here is the little bag I made with the cord handles. I saw a program a few weeks ago making a bag like this using cloth and grommets for the holes to put the bag handles through. This bag has two sides.because I was trying to use up my small bits of yarn. The pink side has a cotton thread  with another thread wrapped around it which gives it a shaggy look.  On the blue and pink side, I added  pink flowers with small blue glass pearl beads in the center. On the cord ends for the handles I added pink vintage beads with a small glass bead used as a stop bead to hold the bigger beads on.

Last is another tree of life necklace I made with supplies from projects my grandmother  made and I had taken apart to make something else someday.  I finally figured how to use some of them. The necklace part is from another necklace. I didn't like, The pendant part of that so used it here and I like it better and still get to use the fun  vintage twisty silver glass beads. I think it is much better now. I used  metal leaves grandma had put on the tree she  made a long time ago. I wanted to still find some use for them.  

 

The wire on the tree part is from a piece of costume jewelery grandma had too. It looks great and gnarly. I used a couple of freshwater pearls I think they are called potato pearls. 

Hope You enjoyed our little jaunt see ya next time.