Monday, 25 August 2014

Every Inchie Monday: Quartz Crystal

This week's word at Every Inchie Monday is quartz crystal. 

After gazing at many gorgeous photos of crystals and crystal diodes, I decided I couldn't do them justice with my drawing.  Then I thought of all those lovely Swarovski crystal beads I have.   They are sewn on to what is going to be a crazy quilting patch.  Don't you just love all those delicious colours that rainbow through the crystal?





Then, after I made the inchie, I decided to do some research.  It turns out that Swarovski crystals are actually made of glass.  I was so disappointed.   But then I dug further and found this sentence elsewhere: "The highest quality glass has the chemical formula SiO2" (silicon dioxide).  Well, this is also the formula for quartz, so I felt much better.  (This is a little too simplistic to really address the issue, but for this week, it is what it is.)




Some of the shimmer comes through in this scan, but it is much prettier in reality. 

Have a sparkly week.
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13 comments:

  1. MySpecialist24 August 2014 at 22:33

    Oh! I especially love the first one - how beautiful!

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  2. chrissie25 August 2014 at 00:14

    Love both of these--clever ideas

    Love Chrissie x

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  3. freebird710025 August 2014 at 00:34

    beautiful! I do love my Swars! Also love the chemical formula! love the purple shimmer! great job!

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  4. Mrs Beez25 August 2014 at 03:45

    Both of these are absolutely beautiful Kia.

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  5. jeanchaneyaz25 August 2014 at 10:12

    So pretty. Both of them. The shimmer is wonderful!

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  6. Unknown26 August 2014 at 09:24

    Kia, I love them both! Your crystals in the top one are fun to hang in a window and rainbows cascade all over a room, depending on where the sun shines on them!! My kids love that! Love the bling in the second one!! Is that a little frame you put around your inchies? Great idea! :0) Share Humanity

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    1. Kia26 August 2014 at 11:59

      The frames are made by cutting a hole with a one inch square punch and putting it over the inchie - which sometimes means awkward fixing with tape!. Then I photoshop the outer edge of the frame. Voila. I no longer have ugly hand drawn edges, and they are sure to be exact inchies.

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    2. Unknown28 August 2014 at 13:52

      Thanks for the explanation!! I might have to try that, because it looks great. I don't have photoshop though so can't do that part. Thanks a bunch! :0) Share humanity

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  7. Trillian As26 August 2014 at 13:02

    Oh yes. A little bit of science :-) love both of your inchies.

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  8. WendyK26 August 2014 at 15:01

    Love your inchies, those crystals are gorgeous.

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  9. sally27 August 2014 at 07:13

    Such pretty beads! My mum used to collect Swarovski animals so the beads remind me of her :-)

    Sally

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  10. Cathy27 August 2014 at 17:08

    Both are very beautiful.

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  11. bmlilith6028 August 2014 at 06:04

    Your use of crystals was good and love the second one, all sparkly.

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