Linked Crystal Squares designed by Jordana Hollander

Last week I wore a necklace that I made two and a half years ago. I found it while digging through a box and hung it on my handy dandy, new, low budget jewelry organizer. Now that I can see it, I’ve started  wearing it and can I just say  that I wasn’t expecting to get so many compliments on it. I had two people stop me to ask me about it. As it happens I took my older two to the pediatrician that day. When I took my youngest in two days later my pediatrician also wanted to know where I got that super pretty  necklace I was wearing two days earlier.

I’m not sure why I didn’t blog about it at the time of it’s construction. Looking at my rack I’ve actually got several pieces that I’ve not blogged about. I think something was wiped off the computer and I lost my ability to (easily) watermark my photos, or I just forgot how to do it.  At any rate, here it is.

Linked Crystal Squares

“Linked Crystal Squares”. Designed by Jordana Hollander. I found the pattern on page 69 of “Creative Beading”, Volume 3

I remember making this. Given my current lack of brain function that in of itself is a feat. At the time I had this brilliant idea that I’d buy a bunch of crystals in one color so that I had enough beads to make just about any intricate pattern.   Swarovski crystals add up quickly and there are tons of patterns I want to make. I figured I could  blog about it, take it apart and then use the beads to try a new pattern.  I bought a ton of erinite swarovski beads. I also bought some garnet beads. This was around valentines day. I remember it because I started with the two valentines necklaces and I did end up taking those apart, which sucks because I spent three hours looking for that garnet one last week. (which, incidentally is how I found this one)

The problem that I ran in to was that I made this necklace, and one other. I liked them both and I couldn’t decide which one to keep so I never took either one of them apart.  It’s a problem for me. Once I’ve got  a piece of jewelry I have a hard time letting it go. Only now I’ve got two necklaces in the exact same color combination and I don’t want to dismantle either one of them.

Needless to say, I’ve stopped using erinite beads for fear of flooding my jewelry box with redundant jewelry. But can I just say that Swarovski erinite beads look awesome with copper… and apaprently I’m not the only one who thinks so!