Stone Necklace

I bought these stones over two years ago with the intention of making them into a necklace. It took me two whole years of pondering before I knew how I wanted to go about it, but I love how it turned out so it was worth the procrastination.

I crocheted around the stones with cotton from my grandmother-in-law's yarn stash that I was lucky enough to raid when we were visiting her in America awhile ago. I hung the stones on some hand twisted string I made from lengths of chain stitch crocheted cotton and silk I picked up at a garage sale cut into strips. And finally, I added some wood buttons from an old broken bracelet as decoration and to hold the three lengths of string together. 

I'm wearing my necklace over the top of the Cowl Vest I made two years ago, it has been one of my most used cozy accessories over the past couple of years. I like the effect of the necklace layered over the top of it.

Stash Scrap Scarf

 I haven't made much for myself lately, most of my creative work has been on things like dishcloths, cute little toys and a blanket I'm making from re-purposed yarn from an installation artwork I collaborated on last year; so it has been a while since I've had anything to share.

                          

My yarn stash is full of beautiful little remnants from past projects and I've been attempting not buy much yarn until I use up more of my stash so I dug up a few colours that complemented each other and I made my first ever knitted scarf. I thought the combination of different yarns would lend itself well to using a bunch of different stitch patterns to add texture and make the project more interesting. All that yarn I used was either wool or silk/wool blends. Some of the yarn brought up beautiful memories of the lovely things I made from them originally, so this ended up being a really special little project.