Strawberry Runner Necklace | #2

When I began collecting these strawberry quartz gemstones a few years ago, this was the first design that tendrilled its way into my mind. 

When I think of strawberries, I think of my grandmother’s strawberry patch. A small square of garden atop the hill beyond the black cherry trees, started in neat little rows and always ending in a riot of leaves and tendrils. 

At the height of June, you had to watch your barefooted step because you’d find strawberries growing in the grass around the strawberry patch, clinging to little runner vines, proud of their inability to be contained. 

Finding those little berries and secretly deciding they were “fair game” to eat, and didn’t count with regard to the warnings we got if we ate all the jam berries, I’d snatch those little runner berries and eat them with my younger brother. 

This is my attempt to capture how picking strawberries in the summertime makes me feel. Sporadic and a bit riotous, dark with sweetness and green with the hight of summer, and a strawberry hidden in tall grass. 

A double-strand necklace filled with sparkling strawberry quartz, little sterling strawberry flowers, warm green kyanite, and a little sterling strawberry hidden on the back of the pendant. 

Suspended from a double-strand, 
adjustable from 12.5” - 16.5”. 
Meant to be worn high on the sternum.

These necklaces are meant to be worn higher on the sternum, as such the necklace chain is shorter than my usual chain, with the larger quartz pendant chain slightly longer so they can swing lower. However, I can add a few inches to the extender if you really don’t want a short necklace. 

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♥ Made in my work studio using time-consuming, age-old metalsmithing techniques. This piece is made with solid craftsmanship and all parts of this piece have been hand-fabricated.
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♥ All of the pieces in my collections are handmade, and make use of natural and recycled materials. All items will have slight, natural imperfections in the handiwork, as well as the gemstones. It is these variations and imperfections which denote their handcrafted nature and individual character.