Yesterday was a good day. I feel like I improved a necklace. The top pic is a piece I made a few months ago. I wanted it to be sort of special, because I don't do too many pieces in bright silver (don't want to spend time worrying about tarnishing). I had high hopes for it, but when I was finished, I wasn't quite happy with it. I wasn't sure why. But yesterday I was scrolling through my pictures, and stopped at that one. It occurred to me that what I didn't quite like was the extreme pointiness of it, sort of like an icicle about to fall on you. I also noticed that there were a pair of triangles on either side of the bottom point that could be turned into 2 faces of either an octahedron or a double tetrhedron. I chose the double tet, cut some beads and added them on and I like the "new"
necklace, the one on the bottom, better.
That is both one of the upsides and one of the downsides of beadweaving versus the rug weaving that I used to do. When rug came off the loom it was done. Nothing more to think about, because you couldn't change anything. Now I find myself tinkering with pieces. Mostly I like that, although sometimes it's nice to just say it is what it is.
