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]
- Jump Ring CPR
- Stepping Stone Pendants
- Adventures of a Birthday Necklace
- Nazgul Lightsaber - Just Add Chainmail
- Charming Teapots
- Fairy Lights
- Model Ship
Stepping Stone Pendants
Liz is a chainmailler who loves color! She’s been collecting colorful glass pendants to use in gifts for her family, and she wanted to make niobium necklaces to to compliment each pendant, all the same pattern of chainmail. Color? Check. Clever idea? Check. Variations on a theme? Check. This is my kind of project! Liz planned to use… [Read More]
Adventures of a Birthday Necklace
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]
Nazgul Lightsaber – Just Add Chainmail
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]
Charming Teapots
Gaylene emailed me from New Zealand about making a bracelet for her mother’s 60th birthday. Gaylene said “She really likes decorative teapots, but alas, no more room to add to her collection. So I thought of a teapot charm bracelet.” What a sweet idea! The only problem was that Gaylene wasn’t sure what weave to use and… [Read More]
Fairy Lights
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]
Model Ship
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 cannons:… [Read More]