Sunset...

What an amazing sunset captured one evening in October two years ago. The colours here are to be picked up on and...

My image was brought to my attention again after seeing 'Sunset sketch' by Pierre Bonnard at an exhibition at Tate Modern some three month later...

Is this a coincidence? I don't think so. This is asking to be developed further to a design. Which is just the way a like it...

Sometimes I wish my sketches (if there are any) were a bit more understandable. To others, I mean. But since this is for me only I can start and see what is going to happen...

...here I am, looking at sky during sunset hence blue colour is the beginning. Having that as a backdrop all I have to do is to fill it with other sunset colours, in this case beads, to pull it all together.

I have a confession to make. After taking the shot I actually sourced relevant colourful beads to complete my design of sunset there and then. It only had to turn to time like this, a complete lockdown, when the design started to take shape...

...being it beads on crochet chain or beads threaded on a wire waiting to be processed further...

Whichever way the outcome is here. One subtle sunset necklace (Blue) with touch of fire streaks or a fire necklace (Orange) with subtle tones of sunset sky.

I can see this worn separately or both necklaces together. What do you think?

With this I will leave you, stay safe and see you next time. K-)

'Floating Leaves A' - bracelet

Time to make a bracelet for a necklace ('Floating Leaves A) I made two years ago. That time, I was inspired by a picture of pigeons on a railing. A necklace was the answer to that. And now I was asked to make a bracelet...

Picking up on the colours I mainly noticed the chain from the necklace hoping to make a caff that would have mini versions of 'pigeons' spread around it. That was the idea...

But of course, my ideas evolve as I go along and one thing to remember is that simplicity adds very often more to the design...




To cut the story short, the idea of single 'pigeons' dissolved and a simple crochet piece to represent a body of pigeons emerged. This links it back to the necklace and the process I used when displaying them. Simple crocheted strip to add a pigeon body sitting on the 'railings'...

What I have omitted here is the fact that I made the bracelet so large that I had to make a fold to make it smaller and covered it with the strip representing the pigeons. This is exactly what I love about the process. One has to listen what is happening around and if something does not work there is a reason for it. Do it differently, change the idea a bit and do not stop. There is always a way...

For more on the process, visit my Instagram account @kp_crochetive.

K-)