Buckstitch Baby

by Shelagh Blatz
(Priddis, Alberta, Canada)

This is a large piece of turquoise bezel set in sterling silver. The piece is accented with leather buckstitching. The pendant is made with a bail large enough to slip off the tigerwood beads.

I had other plans for this piece, surrounding the turquoise with small bezel set cubic zirconia. I had the holes drilled, ready for the tube settings, but I didn't feel right about it.

I decided to sleep on it. This doesn't happen often, but I sat up in bed a few hours later with the idea of the buckstitch and how it could compliment the turquoise.

I wasn't quite sure how I was going to make it work, but the next few hours at my kitchen island turned out this little beauty.

I haven't ever been really 'multi-media' artist, but this opened my mind to other materials to use in my work.

Shelagh Blatz
Designs by Shelagh