Monika Wiklund » Semi-precious chips

Stone necklace

monika — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:54:56 +0000

A very nice and slightly different stone necklace made from three different kinds of stone using the RAW technique. I started working on this necklace after I made a bracelet using similar beads, and I thought that it might make a cool pattern with the black/gray snowflake obsidian and brown/black mahogany obsidian beads in lines radiating out from the middle while the shiny hematite beads are mostly used as spacers between the rows.

What creates the rounded shape of the necklace is the increasingly larger beads. The inner rows have 4 mm beads, the middle rows are made from 6 mm beads, and the outer rows are made from 8 mm beads and large snowflake obsidian chips.

Unfortunately, I made the necklace a bit too large to fit around my neck without tying a knot before locking the ends with the toggle clasp, but since my hair is long enough to cover the clasp I guess it doesn’t really matter. It took quite some time to make the necklace so I do not wish to rebuild it unless I have to. I also made a simple RAW bracelet from the leftover 4 and 6 mm beads, but I do not have any picture of it.

Here is also a picture of me when I am wearing the necklace with a brown and gray summer dress, which I think makes a pretty nice combination.

Photography by Kristian.

Butterfly necklace

monika — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:24:07 +0000

Butterfly necklace

This necklace is made from black agate, onyx, amethyst and sodalite beads and nuggets threaded on waxed string and knotted together. The large carved butterfly is eye-catching and serves as the center of the necklace with the trailing threads with the smaller pendants below.

Butterfly details

At the first sight, the necklace looks all black, but at a closer look you can see the blue of the soldalite chips, the purple of the amethyst beads, and the shifting colors of the larger nuggets. The silver-colored toggle clasp is also in the shape of a butterfly to match the larger stone butterfly.

Photography by Kristian.

Autumn colors

monika — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:15:45 +0000

This necklace was inspired by a design contest at Sirlig Pärlor and is made to resemble the colors of autumn with soft reds, orange, and yellows mixed in with a little bit of green and darker red.

The base of the necklace are rectangular nuggets of carnelian and yellow-white alabaster with small round beads of unakite between the nuggets. Each nugget is surrounded by chips of unakite and red agate, and the necklace is made from illusion cord and has a copper toggle clasp.

In the front, the red agate coin bead is framed by a couple of carnelian and alabaster nuggets and some unakite and red agate chips and beads.

Picture by Kristian.

Jaspis and tiger-eye necklace with organza ribbon

monika — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:02:55 +0000

This necklace is one among my latest work. It is made from matte jaspis and large polished tiger-eye chips that are linked together with eye-pins, and with a large unpolished tiger-eye nugget as a pendant and with a cream-colored organza ribbon wrapped around the necklace.

The metal parts are all silver-colored, and the clasp is a simple heart-shaped toggle clasp.

Picture by Kristian.

Moonstone, filigree, and glass bead necklace

monika — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:00:14 +0000

A large faceted square bead of moonstone is the center of this necklace. The moonstone bead is surrounded by round copper filigree beads, clear glass beads, and moonstone chips and the largest beads are in the middle and then they get smaller the further towards the ends of the necklace you get.

Glass bead and heart chain necklace

monika — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:39:35 +0000

A mix of purple and blue glass beads, red and blue fresh water pearls with and without bead cages, a couple of blue catseye hearts, and heart links from a chain made this necklace. There are also some garnet and sodalite chips mixed in among the rest of the beads.

The necklace is based on eye pins that are put together to a chain together with the heart links.

Colorful chips necklace

monika — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 22:00:27 +0000

Three wires with jaspis chips, turquoise howlite chips, and turquoise chips bound together by twisted metal beads.

By using three wires, the necklace gets a lot of volume, and the metal beads holds the wires together to give an impression of volume.

Cloisonne butterfly pendant necklace

monika — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:00:44 +0000

Here is a necklace of black agate chips, gold filigree beads, oval black cloisonne beads, and a black cloisonne butterfly pendant.

The photograph was prepared by K. Wiklund.

Chips and seed beads necklace with glass leaves

monika — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:00:12 +0000

Another seed bead and chips necklace, this one with gold-colored flowers and glass leaves.

The seed beads are gold and green and silver-lined, and the chips are amethyst and unakite. There is also a matching bracelet of memory wire with gold/brown seed beads chips and glass leaves, but the picture that includes the bracelet is not very good…

Chips and glass bead necklace

monika — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:58:19 +0000

It is not obvious from this picture, but the chips are made of light green jade, so the color scheme is light green and metallic grey/brown.

The clasp and metal beads have an antique silver finish, and the glass bead leaves are metallic brown. The seed beads and larger glass beads are dark metallic grey, and the black pyramid beads have an AB finish.

Updated with better picture.