Early Chainmaille Work

These are some of the first chainmaille pieces I made.  I bought bags of stainless steel jump rings from the local bead store.

The first is this bracelet.

 

In the close-up, you can see how it is put together in a wavy pattern.  (apologies for the fuzziness)

I also made this necklace.  It is a choker.

  

And here is a close-up of the pattern.  Basic 4 in 1.

Stacking Green Bracelets

I love wearing bracelets.  With these - I made 12 to wear together using co-ordinating green seed beads and larger accent beads.  I used a stretchy cord to thread them on.  This is the 12 of them stacked.

Some of the bracelets have larger, dangling, beads on them.  Some of them just have two larger green beads on the cord.

All 12 laid out side by side.

And a close-up of some of the accent parts.

Green Glass and Copper Set

I found these great beads that catch the light in a beautiful bright spring green.  I thought they looked really good with copper chain.

I made a necklace and earrings.  I am not totally happy with the earrings, as they tend to twist a lot and get caught in my hair.  But, they do look good together.

The earring bases were purchased, but I made the copper chain.  It is made of 3-ring mobius.

 

 And a close-up of the beads.

Multi-Coloured Jasper - Round Beads

I adore the multi-coloured look of this jasper, and wanted a simple, knotted strand of 10mm beads.

The earrings in this shot were made to go with my previous multi-coloured jasper set, but also work with this necklace.

And, here is a close-up of the beautiful stone beads.

Blue and Black Lariat

This is my second lariat - using the same pattern as the green lariat posted previously.  The beads are mainly black, with some dark blue, silver and clear glass.

This is a close-up of the ends, showing the larger black glass beads.

This is a close-up of the disk.  It is navy, almost slate-ish blue with some silver flecks in it.

Christmas Chainmaille

I saw the kit for these trees at Metal Designz and thought they were too cute for words...  I made pendants and earrings for my mom and sister.  Then, I made a pendant, and three sets of earrings with different colour schemes for me.

Here are all of my pieces:

 The green and brown theme.

The jewel-tone theme.

The multi-coloured theme.

And the multi-coloured pendant.

Light Green Jade - Mix and Match

I took a trip to China a couple of years ago, and fell in love with jade.  So, I was really excited when I found all of these different beads in a beautiful light green jade.

In a previous post, I talked about mixing and matching strands using an "S" clasp.  I had so many options with the green jade, I thought it would work really well with another mix and match set.  Here is the set, with the strands slightly twisted.

Here are the 5 strands and the earrings.

And a further close-up of the different strands.