Showing posts with label chainmaille. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chainmaille. Show all posts
2/17/09
1/11/09
12/16/08
Chainmaille earrings!!!
First the ones that match my bracelet!
(bracelet for reference in case you forgot what it looks like)
and another pair I made just trying to experiment ... took me 2 hours to get the first one the way I wanted ... I"m still not entirely happy with it, but they'll do.
The 2nd pair is with bright aluminum jump rings. I wish I would have gotten a thicker gauge wire, but at least now I know. These were 20, which I thought would be fine when i ordered them, but I'm not really feeling them.
I also got some aluminum adonized coloured jump rings. Which I'm totally playing around with in the next few days. Maybe making a cute box weave bracelet for myself.
xoxoxo Jaz
(bracelet for reference in case you forgot what it looks like)
and another pair I made just trying to experiment ... took me 2 hours to get the first one the way I wanted ... I"m still not entirely happy with it, but they'll do.
The 2nd pair is with bright aluminum jump rings. I wish I would have gotten a thicker gauge wire, but at least now I know. These were 20, which I thought would be fine when i ordered them, but I'm not really feeling them.
I also got some aluminum adonized coloured jump rings. Which I'm totally playing around with in the next few days. Maybe making a cute box weave bracelet for myself.
xoxoxo Jaz
12/10/08
My first chainmaille bracelet
(CLICK on pics to make them bigger)
i watch crafty shows on PBS and such on the weekends and a couple weeks ago they had a segment on how to make a cute beaded byzantine chainmaille bracelet. I loved it and thought "why not! it doesn't look that hard!!"
so I ordered some swarovsky crystals via etsy (cheap cuz someone was destash-ing) and I got some jump rings and I went at it yesterday.
Sadly at first I got frustrated and lost and no matter how much I tried it just looked like a big jumble of metal. But after I found a tutorial on youtube I went back and came up with this:
I had originally had all swarovsky crystals instead of the sparkly dark blue ones, but because the jump rings were som much bigger (the crystals are4mm - the rings are 7mm) the perspective didn't look right to me. But i didn't want to get rid of them completely so I kept them near the pretty toggle so they still can add some bling.
I'm contemplating listing it on etsy but I'm not sure. I'm also contemplating making a matching set of earrings to go with it.
What do you think?
so I ordered some swarovsky crystals via etsy (cheap cuz someone was destash-ing) and I got some jump rings and I went at it yesterday.
Sadly at first I got frustrated and lost and no matter how much I tried it just looked like a big jumble of metal. But after I found a tutorial on youtube I went back and came up with this:
I had originally had all swarovsky crystals instead of the sparkly dark blue ones, but because the jump rings were som much bigger (the crystals are4mm - the rings are 7mm) the perspective didn't look right to me. But i didn't want to get rid of them completely so I kept them near the pretty toggle so they still can add some bling.
I'm contemplating listing it on etsy but I'm not sure. I'm also contemplating making a matching set of earrings to go with it.
What do you think?
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