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Originally Posted by AnimalLover420
I really like those, extranormal! I love natural looking jewelry, especially for ankle bracelets. You're a dude arent you?? I find men to be really good jewelry makers because of how mechanically minded some of them are. My man does great hemp jewelry, and his knots are way tighter than mine because it hurts my delicate little fingers to pull on the rope too hard.
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Mechanically minded...that sounds a lot better than OCD, I think I'll swap terms
. Yeah I really got into setting up long strings of repeating patterns when I was making necklaces. I would put a string of ten or so beads, add a center bead, and then reverse the pattern, then maybe do it again, copying the whole thing. I found that if an entire necklace had one whole repeating pattern--one half mirroring the other half--but wasn't held at one of the center points (where it was tied off or opposite of there) it was hard to tell there was a pattern. And with fishing line I could easily hide the knot so you could wear the necklace showing the symmetry or hiding it. Sorry I don't have any pics of necklaces from those times, and it may be hard to visualize from how I described it! These were 30" necklaces, fully tied no clasps like the one in the pic.
Anyway, cool thread, cool artwork.