Monika Wiklund

It took quite some time for me to complete this necklace, not because it is a difficult pattern but because I ran out of the matte purple seed beads when I had made a little bit more than half the necklace and it took me quite some time to find the same color and size of seed beads again. Unfortunately I didn’t quite succeed regarding the size of the seed beads so I ended up starting over from the beginning again anyway but I still like the result.

If I recall correctly, I got the idea to create a tubular netting necklace with a large bead inserted into the tube while I was trying to figure out what to do with his large oval-shaped paua bead and I noticed that this mix of purple seed beads matched the colors of the bead very well and I figured that it would create an interesting effect to put the paua bead inside a tubular net like this. It was a bit tricky to build the tubular net around the bead, but I think that the result was well worth the effort.

Photography by Kristian.