#modern macrame

Macrame wall hanging

For a general idea of what I have in those boxes, here's a link you my jewelry gallery.

The boxes have taken a considerable amount of space, and the supplies are ready and waiting to be used for your creations. Gems, semiprecious stones, crystals, handmade and mass manufactured pendants, acrylic, wood, ceramic, clay, metal, teeth and bone, shells, as well as hemp and cotton cord. They packed in random batches of mixed materials, all in either little bags or full bead organizing containers. All beads, including seed beads, are able to accommodate cords and strings between 0.3 - 0.5 mm, many of them able to manage even larger cords.

I'm selling these as a massive discount. It's thousands of dollars in supplies, acquired over 20+ years. All my creative energy is now directed towards making quilts (and sometimes watercolor painting), which I'm absolutely thrilled with. I made jewelry from the age of nine, when I started with friendship bracelets, all the way into your 30s, in full blown modern macrame.

A fall down icy stairs snapped a ligament in m wrist, took six years to get a diagnosis and surgery, but the damage was done to the joint. The ends of the ligament got between the bones of my wrist, but it was diagnosed as arthritis and tendonitis, with zero x-rays or further investigation. It took a second fall down another flight of stairs (epilepsy is so much fun 🙃) in order to get the xray and referral to a specialist. That doctor was horrified it took so long to figure this out. I had the worst case of tendonitis this doctor had seen in over 20 years of his career. Surgery was a few months later, removing the ligament and altering another to take over thr job the previous had done. But...I Joe live in permanent pain because of how long it took. Making jewelry is 100% not an option, which is just as well because I'm now in year eight of burnout. I don't miss making jewelry, not one but, and absolutely love making quilts and painting.

Please consider taking these supplies off my hands. It'll help free up space in my home, which is a small house. I have the boxes stacked in a corner, collecting dust. Most of them weight more than my cat, who is just over 10 lbs. Some of larger boxes have macrame books and patterns included! I couldn't fit those in the little boxes, which are packed to near bursting.

I would greatly appreciate you sharing this info, reblogging here and/or putting the info on other social media. If you know someone who would love to have these, please share the info.

First jewelry commission in years, first piece of jewelry is just as many years.

I have to wear my brace or the pain in my wrist will skyrocket.

Statement pieces are so much fun to make...but they also take a lot of beads, cords, and patience. The thicker they are, the heavier they’ll be. Several years ago, a friend challenged me to make the thickest I dare make. It was six lbs of beads, took me a month to create, and was 3 inches around. She wore it only with plunging necklines because this was a STATEMENT.

This style is very tight, and tends to be very stiff because of it.

When I’m commissioned for these, I require the length you want from the back of the neck to the bottom of the pendant as well as end to end. For exceptionally thick designs, I add two inches to the requested length to accommodate for this.

For years, I under-priced them. Not anymore! These are luxury, and will be priced as such.

Finished yesterday and shipped off today. This is my half of a swap on swap-bot.com. made using cotton cord (not hemp), goldstone beads copper beads and pendant, seed beads, and a button (the clasp). I used 10 cords, making this about 1 inch wide.

Value: $83