Monika Wiklund

Like so many other things, this necklace started as an experiment because I wanted to try out the herring-bone stitch that I found a description of when I was looking around for new techniques. From the description, I figured that it would look pretty cool as a torc, so I started making a herring-bone stitch cord with a 6 bead circumference using three different colors, dark blue, light blue, and light green.

To make the pattern a bit more interesting, I moved the colors in a circular pattern around the cord as I worked, which created the spiral pattern that you can see in the picture. After a little while, it got a bit difficult to work with the empty cord so I started using a piece of suede string as a center. When the necklace was finished I left the center in, and used it for attaching the hook clasp.

I think that this necklace turned out fairly well for a first attempt. It is a bit on the short side for me, but my son loves it and has claimed it as his own.

Photography by Kristian.