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Bead & Button, Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry, Diane Hawkey, Diane Ptaszynski, Erin Seigel, Irish waxed linen, Kandu Beads, Keith O'Connor, Lorelei Eurto
Diana Ptaszynski of Suburban Girl Studio recently got started on a waxed linen kick. Who can blame her? Waxed linen is great! Diana decided to have a waxed linen jewelry blog hop. What a fun idea, and today is the reveal!
I love waxed linen and have been practicing in the last year to get better using it in my jewelry designs. I had several ideas for this blog hop, but in the end I went with a necklace design using these gloriously grungy connectors by Diane Hawkey. I got them last year at Bead & Button.
I knotted the three connectors together on brown waxed linen, added two round beads in the same color family and then added sections of rough little ceramic beads from Kandu Beads. The clasp consists of a linen loop and an orange raku bead by Keith O’Connor. There is a little bit of the same color orange in one of the connectors. I love that!
I knotted between sections of the tiny beads to give the necklace more structure and a little more heft. What I like about waxed linen is that it’s flexible and comes in so many sizes and colors. You can choose a color that blends in like I did or use the linen as a pop of color. Things made with linen drape so nicely. It’s also easier to save materials if a design doesn’t work out. I’ve been able to take apart entire necklaces because the wax makes the linen easier to unknot.
I had a lot of fun with this challenge and look forward to more designs using waxed linen. If you are looking for inspiration, check out Erin Siegel’s Pinterest page. Erin is the one who inspired Diana’s waxed linen adventures, and Lorelei Eurto and Erin co-authored the wonderful Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry with lots of great projects using fibers, including waxed linen.
Thanks so much Diana for this fun blog hop, and thank YOU for visiting! Now please go check out the beauties all the other participants made on the blogs below:
Bead Love 
Those connectors are seriously yummy! I like how you tied the two strands of smaller beads together every so often, that’s a cool effect. This is a super inspiring blog hop for me!
I love how you put the three connectors together to make a very interesting focal. That purple twine is just yummy and goes really well with the beads.
How lovely! like a nice bit of grunge and your necklace has great form and texture.
Love the necklace! It reminds me of an archeological dig find…which of course I’d like since I’m obsessed with that stuff! Thank you for participating!
Hi Ann, you made a great necklace. It had good texture. Just looking at the photo I thought the strand beads were wood.
Very earthy and crusty and luscious! I can’t imagine using anything but linen with those beads now that you’ve created your lovely necklace.
Great piece! It’s so crusty and grungey and I mean that in the best possible way!
First of all, I have to say that you must have the magic touch! I have never been able to pull a knot out of waxed linen so I have ended up cutting a lot and tossing it away. Thank goodness, it is so reasonably priced if you pick it up by the spool.
I love your necklace. It has such an archaic, rustic feel to it.
So many new ideas. I like what you created.
I really like the way you created your focal & your clasp! I also like the “feel” of your necklace – very versatile! 🙂
Very pretty! I love those connectors and the rustic feel of your design.
Love your necklace and the way you used the beautiful ” grungy” beads. I have never used waxed linen but will be trying it soon.
Those connectors are fantastic and you really accentuated the colors in them with your choice of linen and added beads, especially that little pop of orange at the end. I like the way you did the separate strands of small beads and then knotted them together in sections. Really pretty.
Well, my friend. I just had to pick my jaw up from my keyboard, cause it dropped when I saw your necklace!!! Wow. It’s awesome. I’m so impressed! You piece is the perfect earthy bohemian necklace. The waxed linen suits your style and you are mastering it well. You are growing in leaps and bounds and it’s amazing to see. Thank you so much for mentioning Bohemian-Inspired Jewelry. You know I always appreciate your continued support and thoughtfulness. ❤
You have created a completely original and striking necklace! Great work.
Wow, I love all the beads you used and the combination is great! I love the grunginess of it, too!
Hi Ann,
Beautiful necklace. I love the rustic earthy feel to it.
Therese
Beautiful Designs you created with the waxed linen .
Love them!
Your necklace is so striking! I love the idea of combining several beads to make a larger focal.
Ann your necklace is very gorgeous…wow I love the three stones putting together with the waxed linen…is looks like very rustic and organic and reminds me to my country Peru…Cuzco ,the stones of Machu Picchu ,…
I like your stringing idea…loops instead of a straight string. very cool 🙂
What a great necklace! I love the pop of salmon and segmenting the strands. Lovely!
Wow Ann, that’s truly lovely! I like the double-strandedness of it and the focal beads are rather spectacular!
Waxed linen worked perfectly with those mouth watering connectors.
Amazing designs!!!!!!
Love your necklace!! And your blog too!! 🙂
Gorgeous! Those links are really really awesome! And the entire design is fab.
How beautiful! I never use waxed linen, but in the next time I do!
I love everything about your necklace, the beads, the colors, the texture and… the pop of orange! That is a wonderful use of waxed linen.