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Gemstones & Pearls Category
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Purple Vortex
Artist: Felicia Parsons (Prior Lake, MN)
Polly's Picks, Gemstones & Pearls
The design for this necklace didn't come to me until five months after I had purchased the beads. I'd pull them out, run them between my fingers, play with them, arrange them with other beads and findings, but I always put them away again, unsatisfied. I must have tried to incorporate that imperial purple jasper into a dozen or more different pendants, but I was never happy with them, so I'd inevitably take them all apart. When the idea for the design finally did come out of the blue the implementation of the idea wasn't nearly as protracted as its gestation had been. I worked on the necklace in one straight shot, in a matter of mere hours. I went with copper wire rather than my usual silver because it really pulled out the bronzy tones in the lighter pieces of jasper. I wanted to reflect symmetry in the piece so the up coils point one way and the down coils the other. This meant I had to wire wrap half the coils backwards so that the leading wire came across the front of the bead in both directions. Simple as that sounds, I hadn't done it before, and it felt like learning basic wire coils from the beginning. Felicia Parsons
Review the 2007 contest details to see what this contestant was up against. And remember, its never too early to start planning for the 2008 contest!
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