Another piece.

[camwyn]

I had instructions for a very simple and classy-looking wire bracelet that was supposed to involve two segments interlocked with each other in something vaguely resembling a Celtic knot. I am not sure what wrist was involved in testing the original, but if you take two five-inch pieces of wire and bend them so that there is a teardrop-shaped section in the middle of each one and two close-to-touching parallel wires leading away, then interlock the teardrop sections, you wind up with something really really small. As in, if I had carried through with the directions, this bracelet would have been at least half jump rings and clasp rather than actual bracelet band.

So I said you know what, screw it, I'm going to bend this SOB and see if I can attach shiny bits to it.




I may eventually try to do the bracelet again but ignore more or less everything about the measurements in the instructions and just follow the techniques.

Comments

[misslucyjane]

That's beautiful.

[lemon_badgeress]

Oh, that's lovely!

[genarti]

Oh, that's gorgeous! But, uh, does not look bracelet-sized, no.

[camwyn]

If I had folded the two pieces in half and created a loop at the bend point of each that was ONLY JUST big enough to pass a single leg of the other wire through, I would STILL have had at least an inch if not two left to go. That's before bending the tips of the wires into anchor loops for the jump rings and latches. The photographs of the original design were quite lovely and did show that there were about five or six jump rings plus the latch, with the jump rings being either 7mm or 9mm each, but they somehow made it look as if the wires extended the vast majority of the way around the curve even with the large teardrop-shaped interlined central parts.

When I had them set up like that it meant that the wires were curved around no more than half the diameter of my forearm, and I am not a large-forearmed person. Seriously, it would've been 'here is a small segment of interlinked basket-woven wire, and everything else is jump rings'.

Not what I was after.

[derien]

I really am amazed by the stuff you're producing. You have such an artistic eye. Very impressed that you figured out a way to adapt the thing that wasn't working according to instructions and came out with something really cool. :)