I get emails from time to time asking for advice about finding this-or-that in the chainmail world. I can usually point people in the right direction, or at least tell them who to ask next. When Michael (head of production for Hannah Martin jewellery) emailed me almost exactly a year ago, I thought it would… [Read More]

Every once in a while I come across a bad section of wire. Something went wrong at the wire mill, resulting in a few inches (or a few feet!) of wire that coils poorly. It cracks and shreds and throws out wire whiskers. Not OK. Luckily, bad wire is rare. We toss the affected coil(s)… [Read More]

Sometimes a project gets away from me (usually in a good way). In this case, a gift for a friend somehow morphed into a mini-photoessay. This is where it all started… I was making a birthday present for a dear friend – my husband thought that the niobium color fade looked pretty, so he snapped… [Read More]

I get a lot of emails. Most of them are the sorts of things you’d expect: requests for size recommendations; advice on designing pieces; making specific weaves; etc. But every once in a while I get something truly unique. Like when I received… “My name is Aaron and I make lightsabers.” *blink* OK, that wasn’t at… [Read More]

I came across some glow-in-the-dark “rocks” while researching a concrete walkway project for my garden. It’s a neat concept: you set these chunks of (plastic) rocks into your concrete and it absorbs light all day so you have a gently glowing path at night. I eventually decided against using it for my path project, but I… [Read More]

Most of my rings grow up to be chainmail, or at least some sort of jewelry. But every once in a while a truly unusual project comes along. Back in 2007, Ray contacted me from Kentucky about rigging rings for his 1/24th model of the HMS Surprise. He needed recoil rigging rings for itty bitty… [Read More]