Photoblog: Maille and rubber bracelet
Feb. 27th, 2010 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
janestarzToday I come bearing photos. Not yet of the progress of the Elf Chain, but of other maille endeavors.
I bought Link it! by Susan C. Thomas solely because I wanted to make a pretty and blue bracelet for my mother's adopted sister, Yvonne. I'd been ogling the book at The Queen Ring for a while, and now I had a proper excuse to buy it.
Click the photo to go to its Flickr page. Larger size available!
The book is very colourful and that is its main selling point. I must be honest, if it had no text at all I would still have bought it. I didn't even read any of the text except for the part where it said "make x number of units" to see how to go about it. Oh, units. I can do units!
I made a number of units, sliding the small rubber rings onto my chain-nosed pliers and then pulling them over onto a larger rubber ring. I'd even managed to slide all three smaller rings onto the larger rings at once, making for excellent 'piecing' -- if I may use a quilting term.
Actually the hardest part was to close the blue aluminium rings properly without marking the blue coating. Luckily the blue rubber can cover up any mistakes. *blush*
I first tried adding a closure to the bracelet but it looked like ass. So I took it off again and found my biggest challenge: to close the bracelet into a continuous weave. I stared at the bracelet for a couple of minutes. I went to get some coffee. I stared at the bracelet some more. I overlapped both ends and stared at it. Technically, it should be possible...
I took off the 'end' rings that kept the final units in place. I stared at it some more.
In the end I pulled a big portion of a unit through another unit, and had my weave complete, closing aluminum rings to finish the bracelet. It was quite a puzzle, I can tell you.
Now I just hope it'll fit her. I know she has small wrists, and there is a bit of stretch in the bracelet, but you don't want it fitting too snugly either...
I bought Link it! by Susan C. Thomas solely because I wanted to make a pretty and blue bracelet for my mother's adopted sister, Yvonne. I'd been ogling the book at The Queen Ring for a while, and now I had a proper excuse to buy it.
Click the photo to go to its Flickr page. Larger size available!
The book is very colourful and that is its main selling point. I must be honest, if it had no text at all I would still have bought it. I didn't even read any of the text except for the part where it said "make x number of units" to see how to go about it. Oh, units. I can do units!
I made a number of units, sliding the small rubber rings onto my chain-nosed pliers and then pulling them over onto a larger rubber ring. I'd even managed to slide all three smaller rings onto the larger rings at once, making for excellent 'piecing' -- if I may use a quilting term.
Actually the hardest part was to close the blue aluminium rings properly without marking the blue coating. Luckily the blue rubber can cover up any mistakes. *blush*
I first tried adding a closure to the bracelet but it looked like ass. So I took it off again and found my biggest challenge: to close the bracelet into a continuous weave. I stared at the bracelet for a couple of minutes. I went to get some coffee. I stared at the bracelet some more. I overlapped both ends and stared at it. Technically, it should be possible...
I took off the 'end' rings that kept the final units in place. I stared at it some more.
In the end I pulled a big portion of a unit through another unit, and had my weave complete, closing aluminum rings to finish the bracelet. It was quite a puzzle, I can tell you.
Now I just hope it'll fit her. I know she has small wrists, and there is a bit of stretch in the bracelet, but you don't want it fitting too snugly either...
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Date: 2010-02-27 12:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-02-28 09:06 am (UTC)You sure that this is Yvonne isn't me (although I have never met your mother) ^_^.
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Date: 2010-02-28 11:05 am (UTC)no subject
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