Crochet Jewellery Inspirations

As I'm recently riding a crocheting train I have been trying to come up with some ways how can I combine it with jewellery. I found tons of inspiring ideas online which I would love to share here. Let me just say that none of the following pictures belongs to me, all of them have been discovered through Pinterest.

I'm extremely tempted to make those cloud necklaces, they are so stunning! And the asymmetrical-yet-matching earrings are super cute in my opinion. I also would love to make this simple wrap for myself - I love simple and comfortable bracelets. Ah! so many things to do and so little time!

My Crocheting Story

I have many hobbies. Recently I got really fired up again with crocheting. While organising my bedroom wardrobe I came across my long forgotten collection of yarns. Since I brought it to a 'crafty spot' in the living room it's been begging me to do something with it.

My crocheting experience isn't too big. My mum thought me chains and treble crochets (uk) when I was a kid. At that time I made maybe a 1/3 of a simple scarf before I got bored and moved on to something else. My mum finished that scarf and I wore it telling everyone that I made it. I felt horrible about that half-lie.

My second attempt to crochet was around 4 years ago. I don't remember what got me started, but I know that this time I have produced an awkward doily. I had hard time reading the pattern, I made plenty of mistakes, it took forever, but at least I finished it. It was such a struggle that I wasn't feeling too trilled about starting another one any time soon. Such a pity that I don't even know where to find it now.

Even when I didn't crochet I still wanted to do more of it 'one day'. That's probably why I got this soft peach crochet yarn few years ago and a new pattern magazine. I'm delighted that I finally found some time to add crocheting into a list of my active hobbies. At the moment I'm making another doily. I got so consumed with it that for the first few days I been crocheting till very late night hours. It resulted with many silly mistakes I have made, and couldn't be bothered to go back all row to correct them. Don't be surprised if you spot one or two or million.

When I will finish it I'm already planning on making a blanket for my livingroom. I have never crochet with a thicker yarn and larger hook before so it's an exciting idea. I wander if I would get bored of a repetitive pattern or maybe seeing results faster will motivate me. I suppose we're going to find that out sometime soon.

Here is the pattern I'm using in case if you would like to make it yourself:

Family of Tassel Pendants

I have made a collection of tassels quite a while ago. I used a regular sewing thread for that because I like when the tassel is fine and soft. I have thought of creating some sorts of pendants but took me a while to decide how exactly I want them to look like.

First I tried with some simple strings of seed beads and a tassel on the middle just to realise that to keep it on the middle I would need some sort of weight around the tassel. I thought of using glass accent bead right before the tassel, but the idea seemed a bit plain.

Finally I came across this image on Pinterest which inspired me to use this kind of charms/links out of my old broken Pandora bracelet (bought few extra in my local craft shop). It also encouraged me to use different chains for different colour combinations.

And finally this is what I came up with.

Which one is your favourite? I don't really like khaki, but in a combination with mint and floral bead it looks pretty good to me :)