
What a busy week!! Fibre & Finery happened last weekend. It was a good day spent with lovely ladies in spite of the cold and bad roads! I sold lots of earrings so I need to get busy and make some new ones.
I love texture, movement and colour! Lately, I have been playing with some new textures and ideas. I love the look of knots...but tying knots in metal is not a simple matter!! I had a lesson in patience. Forcing metal to do what you want it to is a matter of patiently working the metal into the shape you want it to be. It really doesn't like to be forced and annealing is a must! Still, after some finessing of the wire, clean up and accidentally punching myself twice (the pliers let go as I was pulling) , I managed this pair of earrings. I really like how they turned out. I am still learning, and playing so we'll see where this takes me. I think some knotted pendants should come next...
Until next time,
Laura
I love texture, movement and colour! Lately, I have been playing with some new textures and ideas. I love the look of knots...but tying knots in metal is not a simple matter!! I had a lesson in patience. Forcing metal to do what you want it to is a matter of patiently working the metal into the shape you want it to be. It really doesn't like to be forced and annealing is a must! Still, after some finessing of the wire, clean up and accidentally punching myself twice (the pliers let go as I was pulling) , I managed this pair of earrings. I really like how they turned out. I am still learning, and playing so we'll see where this takes me. I think some knotted pendants should come next...
Until next time,
Laura