Radishes are one of the easiest and first crops to get going in the spring. I myself don't like eating them alone, but the DH does. I prefer mine as a garnish or added zest to a salad or meal. With my apparent distaste for the root veg on its own you'd think I'd whip up a radish and be done with it. Well you're very mistaken. I took today's challenge to crochet something that I've been itching to do for ages! Yes, it involves my obsessive love for all things Harry Potter. Yes, it's something that I can wear. Yes, not people get it when I tell them what they are. >_< Here are the pair of Dirigible Plum earrings that I made for today's Radish challenge. They DO look like radishes as the ones Evanna Lynch wore for her character of Luna Lovegood in the HP films look like a typical radishes as well. Truthfully, Dirigible Plums are orange in color. It wasn't until I had finished that I had remember that there is a gold variety of radish that I really should have styled after. Ah, well. I stayed true to the films and challenge at least.
I digress. The earrings are actually clip-on earrings. I don't have pierced ears and do not care to pierce them. I do like to wear earrings, though. I chose to use the blank earrings that did not have the dangle-y feature. I think that style is a little ugly personally (at least with clip-ons) and I could make them dangle just fine by myself, thank you very much. As you can see, I used a couple rhinestones to cover up a sticky area on the clasp that you would put a normal flat earring or whatever. I'm not a jewelry maker I don't know the terms! Then I wrapped the showing gold bit with green crochet thread, made a long stem like piece to attach the radishes too, and tied it off. On the back side I used a fabric clue to hold the loose ends of thread in place. It all worked very well and I'm SUPER happy with they turned out. :) I shall don them whenever I wear my other HP apparel, or maybe just as I garden. ;)
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Rosemarie Dolderer
11/13/2019 11:00:46 pm
Beautiful I love crocheting
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