Show us your beads, please

[knotty panda]

This is a chain maille design. When I made the necklace and the bracelet, the necklace wore me, so I scaled it down and made another bracelet as well for myself (claspless) so I could sell the original set.

[knotty panda]

Lemon citrine nuggets (7-8MM) looped on 20ga with a single loop and connected with a double jump ring.

[knotty panda]

Heart shaped blue topaz beads. When I ordered the beads, I planned to wire it to a thin silver chain. But the loops on the heart looked a little like Mickey Mouse, so I redid it with liquid silver, but then I decided to silver it over-the-top and I get alot of complements on it, so, I've got 5 or 6 of those sweet little beads left to spread around.

[knotty panda]

This is a similar design with a trillion peridot.

[Satine De La Courcel]

Hi Knotty,

Some fun stuff... as for the chain maile wearing you, have you tried to use smaller links??? That particular chain maile design looks elegant in smaller links.

I have friends who do all kinds of stuff in maile. from shirts to bakini's and ladies evening wear to washcloths which work very well on cast iron , to jewelry and headwear...

none of them had ever put gemsotnes with it only glass beads I like the gemstones much better great Job.

cheers

Ash

[Slraep]

Chain maille. I dream of a chain maille bikini interspersed with pearls. It may not be very comfortable, but really makes a statement at the beach. Can't really wear one in salt water for fear of becoming a rust bucket. And you have to watch the waves because you can easily be washed away and find yourself in China. Or the bikini washes away and you find yourself really embarrassed.

Me & chainmaillle: There should have been a huge pearl of some sort hanging from the chain in the middle of my forehead.

[Slraep]

Hi Knotty,

Very neat designs. It's lots of work with the pliers. I like all of them.
Have you done any with pearls?

Slraep

[Caitlin]

Slraep of Arc?

[pattye]

You all are so hilarious!! I see a huge baroque pearl in the center of the forehead, and another large tassel of pearls hanging off the sword, please. Creativity and sense of humor must ride n the same gene!!

Pattye
so many pearls, so little time

[CLICLASP]

Hi Knotty,

Very neat designs. It's lots of work with the pliers. I like all of them.
Have you done any with pearls?

Slraep

So I did with baroque pearls
I am found of steel mixed with gold

[knotty panda]

I dream of a chain maille bikini interspersed with pearls. Me & chainmaillle: There should have been a huge pearl of some sort hanging from the chain in the middle of my forehead.

Slraep: Wow! You've got the look! Unfortunately, I know precisely where to go to get that bikini, and a few other unmentionables. What does that say about me?

As far as the slow current to China goes, try rubber rings. So much more comfortable in certain places.

Cliclasp: Perhaps we need to revamp our itinerary for when you come here LOL. I love your stuff, BTW.

Back to Slraep: A friend of mine has a TO DIE for design. She's in the middle of revamping her site. Let me see if I can get her to let loose of a pic. You will go ga-ga over this.

[DFrey]

Hi Knotty,
I thought I recognized the pattern used in your chain and bracelet design. The book I looked it up in calls it the "idiot's delight". "Some people think this chain got its name because it is so easy to make; even an idiot can make it. Others maintain that the name refers to the mental degeneration caused by trying to figure it out." My problem would be the latter, figuring it out.

Dfrey

[knotty panda]

Byzantine, Idiot's Delight, Birdcage, there's all sort of different names for part of the design, but that particular design is a combination of two weaves, not just the byzantine. The byzantine is visually complex but very simple to weave. There's Persian weaves, Spirals, Japanese, European, Orbital, oh, yeah, and Hybrids. (I knew I was forgetting one.)

If anyone is interested in learning about chain maille, this is a perfect place to start. http://www.mailleartisans.org/index.cgi

[Slraep]

I know precisely where to go to get that bikini, and a few other unmentionables.

Interdispersed with pearls??

Slraep

[Slraep]

Ana, do you think you can photoshop a pearl to the front of my maille head getup?

Slraep