A necklace in two parts

I am feeling pleased with myself about how this one turned out.

For this necklace I started off by dividing it into sections. Between each section I put more or less the same beads (the middle two sections got some extra silver beads to draw the eye down to the bottom of the necklace). Within each section the beads were arranged in a semi random order. I wanted to finish with a clasp so that it would be easy to tell which part of the necklace was the middle bit that should hang at the bottom of the necklace.

Part the First: necklace

But then - I tried the necklace on again, and thought "wouldn't it be cool if it were a bit longer?" But I didn't have enough of the other sorts of beads to add more of the same sections. So instead, I used the same type of clasp to make a bracelet with some of the same beads, but this time with stricter rotational symmetry:

Part the Second: bracelet

So the necklace and bracelet are different designs, but because they have some of the same beads they go together quite nicely -

The two parts compared

So then what you can do is link the necklace and bracelet together to make a super-long necklace, with the bracelet part going round the back of your neck. I've laid out out here to show how the join goes, but when it's being worn it straightens out into one long swingy necklace. Hurrah!

Two parts linked together!