Beautiful handmade ceramic beads made from South African soil and the hands of woman, found in this beautiful etsy shop:
and mixing it with fine silk handcrocheted tubes, pebbles and leather.
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Friday, February 28, 2014
Golden coins and traditions
Received a custom order to crochet around this old French 20 Franc Gold Rooster/ Coq Gaulois.
Although French 20 Franc “Roosters” are perhaps the most common of the
European gold coins, they remain relatively scarce and of historical
importance (notice the date: 1913)
In Switzerland there is a tradition to give the 'Vreneli' (Swiss 20 SFR gold coin) as a birthpresent to a god-child.
It is said, that whenever something terrible should happen in life, and no more money is left, this coin could be used to buy the most necessary things in life.
Being half Swiss, half Belgian, and having a mother that is called Verena (Vreneli when she was little) both my kids received this coin upon birth.
Love to capture memories in crochet!
Wednesday, February 26, 2014
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Thursday, February 20, 2014
The 'expat' necklace
Received a request to make a necklace for a Belgian woman living in Australia. I immediatly thought of making her something that would remind her of Belgium in a subtle way: so decided that our national flagcolors would be the inspiration for this necklace.
I call it the expat necklace!
Combed African vinyl discs, an old Ethiopian trade bead and some crochetwork to translate this into a necklace.
A multi culti mix!
Sunday, February 16, 2014
Sunday, February 9, 2014
Before and after
Most strands are sold way to short to make a necklace out of one (approx. 40 cm), so one needs to be inventive to make the most out of one strand.
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