It has been almost two weeks since I've posted here. I've been making items for consignment, always with the lowest possible price in my mind so that the shops will be able to sell it. It feels like production work.
You can view the inventory I left on consignment at the Chicago Illinois Artisan Shop on my flickr site. http://www.flickr.com/KRDesigns11 It is in a set which is with other sets on the right hand side as you arrive on the page. If you click on the slide show, it won't take very long to see 15 images. The items I made are well constructed and beautiful, but far from the price points needed to be an impulse purchase or gift for most women, especially in today's economy. I have been given the gift to be able to make these bracelets, yet they are no longer satisfying something inside me.
I long to create a truly one of a kind piece...the EBW Challenge is due soonish and the Muse has yet to visit me with an inkling of inspiration for it. Oh, I can see the colors...there is dark green, emerald? It's a vintage European Christmas item....
Last Christmas I asked for and received a book on micro macrame because I want to explore it further; I purchased parts to practice the techniques, but I've yet to sit down and try it. I have green ivy leaves and red round crystals for holly berries to make a micro macrame bracelet that I purchased last year...so those UFOs are haunting me, too. Speaking of UFOs, I want to set up a tray with them, displayed so that I can see them several times a day. Where do I start?
So the question of what do I offer for sale for holiday gifts goes on the back burner. The UFOs will be worked on as I can. My priority will be to learn more about micro macrame. That means I need to find the things I set aside for this activity, so cleaning my work space hopefully will clear my mind. Maybe I will find the beads for the EBW Challenge item!
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Let me know if you have difficulty learning or doing any of the micro-macrame knots.
ReplyDeleteI too have many many UFOs, some of them micro-macrame, others of like techniques. At one point I counted 42 unfinished projects! It was hard to do, but I had to either finish some of those projects or let them go, to be explored by other artists.
Thanks for the offer of help Annika. It is your book that I want to study. Micro-Macrame, 30 Beaded Designs for Jewelry Using Crystals and Cords by Annika deGroot. Paristan Necklace with the wire lace "chain" is the one I was most drawn to. I think I found it from Marion Jewels in Fiber e mails. I found her googling kumihimo when I was looking for supplies. I love looking at her gallery of work, too.
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