NECKLACES
Reading edition
Materials Required:—
Needles, strong thread of linen or silk, seeds, beads, acorn cups, daisies.
Figs. 41 to 43.
These are some of the necklaces you can make of things you find in the country, or of seeds you come across.
Figure 41 is made of rose hips threaded together. If you want to make the cross or pendant, you can use a few small beads so that your radiating hips will hold more steadily. These will hold better into place if you put a strong surrounding line of stitches into them.
Figure 42 is of melon seeds or sunflower seeds, either will do.
Figure 43, of the same, but threaded twice through each seed, with a tiny bead between and a pendant loop of seeds and beads below.
Figure 44 is a snake made of acorn cups. Begin at the head (with is a large acorn with the shell cut to make eyes and mouth), and thread through the mouth, then thread on your biggest acorn cups, gradually choosing smaller and smaller ones till you get to the tail, where it should be finished with a tassel.
Fig. 44.
Figure 45 is the prettiest daisy chain. The stems are nipped off and the daisies threaded through the center. This makes a very beautiful wreath.
Figs. 45 to 47.