A Rose by Any Other Name...
A lovely fibula for your knits

A fibula is the perfect adornment for any knit sweater, hat, or scarf. They were originally made by the Greeks to fasten their togas, but today artists create them to decorate knits and more!

This fibula is artfully made with twists and curves of silver tone wire. Its focal bead has a sparkly, gold glitter center, wrapped in swirls of white and pink roses on each side of the bead. It is flanked by two intricate bead caps, and a ruby red and iridescent glass bead. The pin point is filed to a sharp point that is buffed smooth, and will work best with loosely woven or bulky knits.

It measures 2-3/8 of an inch in length, and 7/8 of an inch in width.

Thank you for looking!

Blessings,




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A Fascination....

With cooler weather upon us, it is time to pull out the sweaters, hats, coats and scarfs. Once again, I must decide which these items will be worn another season and which will go to Goodwill. Despite the fact that I am not the cold weather girl, I am excited to be wearing my favorite pair of boots again!

As of late, my jewelry designing thoughts are consumed with a fascination for pins! It seems the perfect time of year for them, after all they bring new life to those old knits! So this week I pulled out several of my jewelry making books and began searching for ideas on making fibulas. Trying to be frugal, I started working with nickle silver wire to make prototypes, but found that the wire was wonderful to work with, it looks great, and is cost effective too!

These are some of the pins I put together this week! What do you think?





Be sure to check out the Fibula section of my shop in the coming days, I will be adding these soon!


Blessings,

Ready for Sweater Season
A Heart Shaped Fibula

A lovely heart shaped copper fibula perfect for dressing up your loosely woven scarf, shawl, hat or sweater! It is adorned with handmade copper beads and a beautiful green turquoise rondelle! Including the dangle, this shawl pin is 3 inches in length; and 1-7/8 inches in width. Because of the width of the pin, I would not recommend using this on tightly woven knits or silks.

Thanks to Julie Siqmund for her wonderful tutorial!

Do not forget to take advantage of Free Shipping within the USA, offer good through January 1, 2011!

Thank you for looking!


Blessings,




Heart's Desire Beading Company 2010 © - All Rights Reserved