Year of Jewelry
2007

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I love this pattern!  It would look awesome as a necklace and is really easy to do once you figure out the correct size jump rings to use.

This Byzantine variation is a weave by Scott Plumlee of www.davidchain.com from his first book Handcrafting Chain and Bead Jewelry.

If you are at all interested in chain maille, his book is a must!

This is the Clearly Crystals from the February 2007 Bead and Button magazine, and is for my cousin.

The wedding colors are Tiffany Blue and Plum, but my cousin likes purple, so I choose Alexandrite crystals for the lighter shade of purple.

Another piece of wedding jewelry for the same wedding as last week, but for a different cousin.

I used 15 different crystal colors in the purple and blue family to make this bracelet.

This is a weave that I've seen on the MAIL site and also in the book Chains by Becky.

Making the segments themselves was not that difficult, but it took me a couple of tries to figure out how they were suppose to connect together.

While flipping through my new Bead and Button magazine, I realized that I had never done a Double Flower bracelet.

This is the pattern from the magazine and uses 16 ga 5.5 mm ID jump rings.

I was playing with the Persian weave, trying to come up with some earrings, and ended up with this chain instead.

It is Full Persian 6-in-1 segments connected together with Flower elements.

A slight variation to last week's Persian Rose pattern...this time using larger, heavier gauged rings for the connectors (since the original 16 ga ones that I used pulled apart after about a week).

I was looking through an old WAG magazine and saw that they had made a single spiral chain using 18 ga 3.5 mm ID rings out of half round wire.

This is using slightly larger 18 ga 4.5 mm ID jump rings, and instead of passing through the 2 previous rings, each one added passes through the three previous rings.  The spiral definitely holds the twist much better.

What do you do when you decide to put together a wedding in 5 days and the groom wears a special order size 13?  You make the ring, of course!  Sterling silver rectangular wire cut with a jeweler's saw and soldered.

I believe that this pattern is called Avalon and the original version was created by Cynthia Clinton...although I'm not 100% sure, since her web site has changed since I printed off the original picture.

Atlantis is a Byzantine weave variation and was made out of 18 ga 3.5 mm ID jump rings.

Turtleback is another Byzantine weave variation.  The Byzantine segments were made with 18 ga 3.5 mm ID jump rings, and the connectors were 16 ga 4.5 mm ID jump rings.

The Persian Cross is an original design by Barry Woodham.  The directions that I used were from Maile of the Dreamseeker, and the jump rings were 20 ga 5/32" ID.

This is a design similar to Shaggy Loops and Anne Mitchell's Ancient Links that I found on Patrick Ober's web site.  He says that it is based on a Picenes piece that he saw at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.

This is a sample for a possible class I would like to teach this fall using aluminum and rubber jump rings.  I come from the Illinois-Wisconsin borderlands, so we have a nice mix of Bears and Packers fans.  (The Bears bracelet has already gone on display.)

More samples for the same class as last week, using only aluminum rings...just with local high school colors instead of National League football teams.

This week's project was Anne Mitchell's Ladder Hybrid pattern out of the July 2007 Bead & Button magazine.  I thought that single 16 ga rings holding the too chains together was too flimsy, so I used 14 ga instead.

I've decided to start playing with shaped jump rings...I bought the mandrels, now I have to figure out what to do with them.

This is the Half Persian 4-in-1 weave using square jump rings.

Another Half Persian 4-in-1 chain, this time with smaller square jump rings.

A simple 2-in-1 chain using 18 ga round jump rings and 12 ga oval jump rings.

By far my favorite chain using the shaped jump rings.  This is a Byzantine single Byzantine units joined together with oval jump rings. 

This chain was inspired by one that I saw on Patrick Ober's web site.

Another piece inspired by one on Patrick Ober's web site.  This chain consists of 3 sizes of 16 ga jump rings.

A much different look for the Orbital Rings when hanging vertically as opposed to laying horizontally.

One of the projects in my 2005-2006 Year of Jewelry was a Celtic Visions variation necklace that I saw on The Ring Lord's forum.  Aura is an original weave by Sara Reading of Corvus Chainmaille.

Not exactly sure what to call these.  I was trying to come up with some earrings to go with a Bastard weave bracelet.  These didn't turn out exactly as planned.  I think they would be cute made with colored Niobium rings.

Saw a red pair similar to these on Etsy a while back.  I'm more of a Star Wars fan, than Star Trek, but couldn't resist figuring them out. 

It's a simple Persian segment minus one ring.

Finally!  I think I have been trying off and on for almost a year to work out a good size ring combination for these earrings.

These were inspired when trying to figure out the size for the inside ring of the Byzantine Cross earrings from last week.

While trying to incorporate crystals into the Bastard weave, I ended up with this.  Then saw a similar design on Ess in Chains that she calls Crystal River.  I like that name so decided to use it for this post.

This is the Byzantine Diamond weave that Colin Mahler is teaching.  I think that I've seen it someplace else before...just not sure where.

Another Byzantine Diamond bracelet, this time hooking the diamonds together at two corners instead of one.

I believe that this is also called Biohazard, but I'm not 100% sure.

This is an original weave by Sara Reading of Corvus Chainmaille.

Another Aura earring variation.  This one was submitted to MAIL by Teter Designs

An earring version of Byzantine Diamond weave.

Can you tell I'm gearing up for holiday sales by making all these earrings?  These are based on the Scary weave from Becky Goga's book.

The shrunken version of the Celtic Star Pendant.

This is an original pattern by Dylon Whyte that I bought from his Etsy site.  (Also available through Metal Designz)

This is an original pattern by Rebecca Mojica of www.BlueBuddhaBoutique.com that was posted on the M.A.I.L. site.

Another original pattern by Rebecca Mojica of www.BlueBuddhaBoutique.com from the M.A.I.L. web site.

Made this out of 16 ga wire and I think it's a little too heavy for earrings, so I'm going with just one and calling it a pendant this week. :)

A "crystalized" version of the Triple Hoop earrings.

To match my bracelet from this summer.

Yeah!  I finally finished this project out of Scott Plumlee's book.  It's been sitting half finished in my tool bag for most of the summer.

Based on the Open Roundmaille pattern, this bracelet captures "rings" instead of crystals.

This is another Sue Ripsch original that was published in Step By Step Wire magazine.  Sue was a student in my very first Byzantine class.

This is a new class being offered by Scott Plumlee.  I saw a picture in the Bead and Button Show classes and reversed engineered it. :)

Yeah!  Last chain of the year and I'm even done early for once!

This is the Flat Queen's Link chain weave out of the Chains by Becky book.