When Life Gives You Lemons...

Make Bird Nests?

The idea for a bird nest pendant actually stemmed from a freak accident. I've been into playing with wire lately, mostly having fun with my wire jig and Coiling Gizmo. I've made a few patterns with the tools, but decided to try to free hand some projects. I was actually trying to make a circular pendant with another wire circle inside, and a bead inside that. My goal was to wire weave the inner circle to the outer circle and thread the bead through the center. The harder I tried, the worse it looked until finally I had my little temper tantrum and crushed the mess in my hand. I looked at it and thought, "That looks like a really mangled bird nest."

I salvaged the bead and threw out my hideous inspirational disaster. I decided I'd just go straight for the bird nest. As fate would have it, I had a few greenish blue egg shaped beads in my bead collection.

Having a wire pendant gave me an excuse to crochet another choker. Like all my crocheted chokers, it is adjustable up to a certain length, this one featuring a wire hook clasp that I made with matching brown copper wire. The choker is threaded with round beads that match the "eggs" and tiny teal colored seed beads.

It would make a nice present to put in someone's Easter basket or a gift to yourself to remind you that spring will be here soon enough.