Last year, I joined the #2018earringchallenge on Instagram. The idea was to make and share one pair of earrings every week. A great way to just play with ideas, work quickly and also, to focus on earrings for a change.
A calendar year has 52 weeks that run in a steady rythm. Not so in my earring year. The weeks kept drifting more and more apart from each other, and… well, you know what it’s like. Just a few days ago I managed to share the earrings for week 21.
But this is all OK, because it’s not important if I ever arrive at 52 earrings. I had fun AND I got hooked on this one thing: crochet.
If you like earrings, don’t miss to check what everyone came up with last year in the #2018earringchallenge. Take your time, you have more than 6000 pairs to peruse!
galeriaredelius 
These are really beautiful. Love the contrast of hard metal, in a light, lacy form.
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Thank you! Me too, I like that contrast. As if you’re playing with the rules a bit, challenging the metal to take on a different character. And it willingly does!
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Wonderful!
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Love it 🤗
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Thanks you, that makes me happy to hear!
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p.s. I love the photo of one in motion. I think my favorites are the earrings with the red thread and the first cylindrical ones.
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Thanks, it’s always nice to hear what resonates most with different people! I think the red ones were the first round ones with embroidery (and colour), so they are very much the prototype, and I also didn’t roll them as flat as I did the later ones (which means these are more “wobbly” and flexible). I like the wider cylinders too, I remember I felt very satisfied when they fell into place. 🙂
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I missed this post last year – it’s beautiful work and what a challenge that must have been. 🙂
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Yes, it was quite a challenge! So much that I didn’t even finish it, I think I stopped somewhere at 21 or 22, with still one or two pairs that I didn’t post yet…
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Wow!! What spectacular earrings you’ve created!! I’m seeing a level of sophistication in your jewelry making that’s reached a stellar level of commitment AND focus. Your circular knit earrings surrounded by the gorgeous red silk or cotton/linen thread border especially are so delicate and lovely. I hope you decide to make more jewelry pieces /earrings that explore these intricately delicate techniques!! Such lovely work.
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Thank you so much for your encouraging words, they mean a lot to me, coming from you! I have the tendency to jump from this and that to the other, but here I think there is something I can keep doing for a while. And me too, I like the effect of the coloured thread, so this shouldn’t be the last one…
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De är ju många och snygga.
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Vad kul att du gillar dem – och jag hoppas det blir fler så småningom!
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Det är bra terapi också. 🙂
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I love these. They are so delicate and lacy.
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I loved making them! My fingers are itching to make more…
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I have also seen knitted wire earrings. Your work is fascinating and really ethereal.
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