If this offends you...

I love her. 78 strings. She is my biggest piece to date. All hand knotted using this pattern found at BraceletBook.com

Lichtenstein in knots

Here is my completed Lichtenstein pop art micro macrame piece. You can find the pattern here at bracelet-book.net

Hand Knotted Pop Art Girl

I finished knotting this female pop art piece yesterday. To date, it is my largest piece completed at 56 strings. It is big enough to be a coin purse, which I am considering, but still have lots of back-work to clean up and knot etc etc. You can get or see this pattern here at BraceletBook.com

Sugar Skull Hand Knotted micro macrame

Sugar Skull 

I finished this one. It's one of my favorites. I made a few mistakes, but that's what makes it special. It's from a pattern found here at BraceletBook.com. I changed up the colors a bit.

My sister, capturing the beauty of her life... and fall in NY

"We lose ourselves in the things we love, we find ourselves there too". #saturday #saturdayrun #running #morningrun #runner #fall #fallrunning #training

A photo posted by Vanessa Chiera (@piecesofher_12) on Oct 15, 2016 at 7:12am PDT

Creative Weaving Ideas

The Dollar Tree, portable, weaving loom idea for the creative soul on the go :)

I am always looking out for different objects to weave on. I don't know why I started doing this, but it is so much fun for me, and it will make me really happy to share my ideas with you so that you can try them too!

1. Warp it 2. Weave it 3. Love it

This first weaving loom idea can be started with a quick trip to a Dollar Tree store to pick up one of these handy dandy plastic bins. If you are like me, you already have at leave a hundred. I use them to sort floss, pens, markers, and other craft related items for me and my 3 year old daughter. They are very useful. I even use them in the kitchen for organizing snacks in the cabinets and in the utensil drawer. 

I tested the process going completely around the bin with the warp string, and through the existing holes. For me, the holes worked much better.  

Next, I just wanted to see what was possible... so I did a few different test squares for fun.  I did a combination of both hand knotting techniques and weaving techniques. I think some of the combinations looks beautiful together and will make lovely pieces of hand made, hand woven, hand knotted jewelry.

Top square: hand knotting technique - alpha style knotting

The best part about this particular loom idea is that you can toss all of your supplies into the bin, warped and all... and take it in the car, on vacation, to the doctors office... wherever you go, you can have a loom with you so you never have to stop creating. 

If you give this idea a try... I would love to see what you have come up with.  Enjoy!

Friendship-Bracelets.net - Patterns for days!

When I first found Friendship-Bracelets.net, I'm pretty sure I spent several months going through all the patterns, and tutorials they have on the site. I couldn't stop looking at the patterns long enough to make any of them. I still spend a lot of time there looking at the latest and greatest additions to their already enormous stock. New gems are added daily by community members. In addition to normal friendship bracelet patterns, they also have tons of alpha patterns and kumihimo patterns. Whatever your poison, or whether you are a beginning or pro,  knotter, cross stitcher, or general crafter... you will not leave this site without saving at least a couple hundred designs. 

This is just a couple of my favorite selections during my visit today. These are smaller patterns, ranging from 8 strings to 12 strings.  I'm sure if you're here, you've probably already been there... if not, you should head there now because you've got a lot to see. I'm going to check out the new alphas... maybe I'll share those too. Enjoy!

Here is an 8 string, normal friendship bracelet pattern using 3 colors. This patter was added to friendship-bacelet.net by RogueLeopard

Here is a 9 string, 4 color, normal friendship bracelet pattern on friendship-bracelet.net by kmila

This is a 10 string, 4 color, normal friendship bracelet pattern found on friendship-bracelets.net added by misslilly

This is a 12 string 4 color normal friendship bracelet pattern by Starling at Friendship-bracelet.net