On a recent car trip to Chicago, I spent car time building some different structures that I wanted to use as building blocks for a necklace. I wanted just a few elements and ended up with 3 front ones and a curve around the back of the neck . I like it, especially the spiral in the front. But it's kind of a lot of necklace, both long and wide. On a whim I hooked the hook to the ring that's on the spiral, leaving out the last zigzaggy element. Here I have (badly) photoshopped out the element that would be left out. It makes the necklace more asymmetrical, as well as shorter. I like the asymmetry, but it's probably just a bit too short. So if I do cut off the zigzag, I think I'll add one more unit to the curve that goes around the back, so that the end of the spiral element is a bit farther from the neck.
I'm still trying to decide whether to cut off the zigzag. If I do I think I'll turn that element into a pendant. But
looking at the pictures, I like the top one more than I did just trying it on. For one thing I kept trying to shift it around so that the 2 wide points weren't opposite each other. But now I think that having them at almost the same height, but also different shapes, kind of works. It's good to be able to line up the 2 pictures together and see how it looks either way (although taking a selfie as a 68-yr-old is not for the faint of heart).I'd love to know what anyone reading this blog thinks--long version or short?
