The designer's corner

[GemGeek]

Gorgeous! You are a chain maille goddess!

 

[Sarah]

Gorgeous! You are a chain maille goddess!

Pshaw, hardly. Maybe a handmaiden at most.

 

[Katbran]

Nah, I think she had it right with Goddess lol

Really interesting work..I don't have the patience for that I'm sure ! They look wonderful !

 

[LitGeek]

Wow bluebirrrd your necklace turned out fabulous!

 

[pearlescence]

I'm quite pleased with this -

big pearl, vermeil and faceted tourmalines

 

[pattye]

Great play of colors, Wendy!

 

[GemGeek]

Great play of colors, Wendy!

I agree - beautiful combination.

 

[Sarah]

Gorgeous pearl and tourmalines, what a fun piece!

 

[battah]

Gorgeous, Wendy! I love how the tourmalines pick up the color in the pearl.

 

[lisa c]

Wow, I love how that design works the eye! Is it built upon a spiral? It's really engaging!

 

[Katbran]

Lovely pendant Wendy ...lovely colours.. far more patience that I have wrapping up those little pink rascals

 

[pearlescence]

not a spiral, simple jump rings on a post dropped into the half drill on the big pearl, then the enhancer put on when I got bored with wire wrapping the tourmalines (!)
I could be all artisting and talk about how the jump rings allow for movement in wear and stuff like that but really that was just how I decided to make it. I needed something fairly broad as the top of the ripple pearl isn't particularly pretty and needed hiding.

 

[juliebeth]

OMG bluebirrd, LOVE LOVE the chainmaille with the ripple pearls! PERFECTION! drapey, indeed!

wendy, that is just fabulous, the gold, golden pearl, pink tourms all perfect. and i bet they do allow for movement in wear, even if incidental to the designing of the piece.

 

[Sarah]

Thank you, Julie. I think perfection would be white and rose gold, but I'm common folk so alas. Glad you're back

 

[battah]

A couple of recent pieces I did:

Metallic squares and white center-drilled keshi petals:


Natural colored keshi petals (with purples and pondslime) with ivory off-rounds:


Silver dyed freshwaters with teal overtones knotted with hematite:


And finally, this one really put blisters on my fingers! A 72" endless rope of 5-6mm and 7-8mm baroque freshwaters in lavender tones (though they photograph warmer, the pearls are actually cool-toned).

 

[GemGeek]

Battah, that's a pretty collection of different types of pearls. Do I see silver beads in the 72" strand?

 

[battah]

Yes you do! I used sterling doughnut beads to highlight the larger pearls. I prefer to use argentium usually, but I couldn't find them in that shape/size.

 

[Katbran]

Wow, I love how that design works the eye! Is it built upon a spiral? It's really engaging!

Lisa, what do you mean built upon a spiral..how does that work?

And Battah, that's lovely work and really nice photos !

 

[battah]

Thanks, Katbran!

 

[lisa c]

Lisa, what do you mean built upon a spiral..how does that work?

And Battah, that's lovely work and really nice photos !

I thought maybe Wendy had coiled one to three wires loosely, pulled them downward to open them, then strung gem-beads on the opened curves. I need to get my eyeglasses updated.

I'm not a wire-worker, but I'm trying to visualize...if you wanted 3 spirals, you could use one long wire, form a twist loop in the middle, and another wire roughly half that length plus enough to form a loop at the top of that length,
coil...

Actually, one long piece of wire, put gems on, then coil sounds easier. I'll retire to fiddle around a bit, probably break some wire...I need classes, to catch up with you guys

Battah, nice to see what you're doing! You guys are so Accomplished!