My adventures in chainmaille continue, although not as smoothly as I would like. Last month I ordered some supplies from Art Beads with the intention of making several pairs of earrings from instructions on Marilyn Gardiner’s website. Unfortunately, a lot of the rings turned out to be the wrong size. I don’t yet grok how interior, exterior and wire size all work together. (And Art Beads doesn’t list all the sizes the same for every item…)
Anyway, I still managed to end up with these very pretty earrings.
The pattern is a slightly modified version of her Mobius Flower earrings. I used silver-filled rings (which actually means a brass core covered in 925/10 silver) and sterling silver hooks. The new pliers I got for Christmas made putting these together so much easier than putting together the bracelet from the other month. With the supplies I have on hand, I should be able to make one more pair, and maybe a couple of other pairs of earrings. And then, well, it might be time to buy some more supplies.
Very nice! I still have some chainmaille supplies from last year that should be another bracelet…. I need to pull them out!
(Blue Buddha Boutique has a great reference page for ring sizes and such: http://www.bluebuddhaboutique.com/b3/faq/ringsize )
Nice earrings, how heavy are they to wear?
wow, very nice…
Those are amazing!
Love the earrings!!
fabulous earrings. I know that gauge and inner diameter are important, though it would take me many years of chain mailling to be able to figure out the ratios for myself! I bought myself a Gizmo – a wire winding tool, it was only about £8 and it comes with 6 or 8 rods. I can make my own jump rings that way so can use whatever gauge wire they state, and all I have to do is measure the rods to find the correct ID. I have a chain maille book which has a handy page which shows an outline of each of the rings in each gauge and ID so you can put a jump ring on the picture and find out its size