Out of curiosity, since the end product looks so nice, what was the difficulty in using the wrong sizes of bead and wire? Or is this the version with the sizes the pattern calls for, after some earlier trial and error?
Well, this ring is about a size 4.5 to maybe a size 5 at the outside. My smaller ring finger is a size 7.5. The original pattern didn't actually say what size the ring was supposed to be upon completion, and didn't even mention a ring mandrel- it said to use dowels to adjust the curve of the ring- so I don't know what size it was supposed to be, just that it should've been larger. The gold beads are 2.5 mm each, and there are nine of them. The pattern was designed with 3 mm gold beads, so that's an additional half-centimeter of circumference this ring should've had. It might not fit on my ring finger then, but it'd at least be able to fit on one of my pinkies.
As for the wire, that's 21-gauge square wire in the picture. Which is very pretty, but it's just a touch larger than the 22-gauge the pattern called for. That touch is exactly enough to make the wire too big for the hole in any of my 4-millimeter crystal bicone beads, which are what the pattern originally called for as the three accent beads on either side, and a little too big for most of my 4-millimeter round beads- those green accent beads are on the square wires because they are the only four 4mm crystal beads I had that would fit onto the wires and slide into place without cracking. The bicones would've fit together a little less awkwardly, and while the rounds here are very pretty I would've liked a wider spectrum of accent beads to choose from.
My sense of size and proportion gets really weird when I spend long enough beading. Fractions of a fraction of a millimeter wind up being more important than I would've imagined before I started this kind of art work.
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Date: 2018-03-08 04:59 pm (UTC)Out of curiosity, since the end product looks so nice, what was the difficulty in using the wrong sizes of bead and wire? Or is this the version with the sizes the pattern calls for, after some earlier trial and error?
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Date: 2018-03-08 05:07 pm (UTC)As for the wire, that's 21-gauge square wire in the picture. Which is very pretty, but it's just a touch larger than the 22-gauge the pattern called for. That touch is exactly enough to make the wire too big for the hole in any of my 4-millimeter crystal bicone beads, which are what the pattern originally called for as the three accent beads on either side, and a little too big for most of my 4-millimeter round beads- those green accent beads are on the square wires because they are the only four 4mm crystal beads I had that would fit onto the wires and slide into place without cracking. The bicones would've fit together a little less awkwardly, and while the rounds here are very pretty I would've liked a wider spectrum of accent beads to choose from.
My sense of size and proportion gets really weird when I spend long enough beading. Fractions of a fraction of a millimeter wind up being more important than I would've imagined before I started this kind of art work.