Having finished the bracelet and appropriated the dotty bead, I decided it looked loney, so I made two beads to keep it company, one is one of my favorite styles, a simple etched bead with fine silver dots.
The other is something I have been meaning to try for a while, inspired by Denise of DKS Lampwork, She does beautiful florals on a background of mesh but Ive gone for a simpler approach and stopped having encased the mesh, Im very pleased with it and Im looking forward to trying this with a finer mesh very soon as I love the affect.
I suspect it will be a little while before I managed to make anymore but I am looking forward very much to continue filling it up, hopefully with some home made silver charms too !
8 comments:
I'm dying to try JP! But as I'm a newbie to maille and my first attempt at JP involved rings that were too large I put it on hold. Come winter I'm going for it!
Becky this is fabulous. I love the colour and the textures. Great work!
Thanks Mary, do have a go at the JP the very first thing I made in maille was a bracelet for my OH which was in JP and I loved doing it (This chain is my 4th attempt at maille and due to size a tad more fiddly lol but still fun)
I love the mesh effect, think it works in the larger mesh quite well; I've never seen anything like it before, really unique
they're lovely, hon :) xox
The mesh bead is amazing and i love the etched one aswell and the colour, saving up already you must make some more of thesex
p.s what gage did you use for the bracelet x
Thanks Glenn & Keiara :))
Joanne, Im going to sound terribly ignorant now but im afraid I dont know what the gage of the jump rings are as I got them already cut and just did the making up into a bracelet. if it is any help the bracelet is a smidgeon over 3mm diameter.
now theres an idea i had some jump rings that i had cut myself and had a go but either the gage or diameter was incorrect, i think this has to be so correct to make this work but it is lovely and looks fab with your beads Jo
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