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I Have Made A Thing!
Apr. 27th, 2014 07:44 pmOh, hey, almost forgot! Check out what I made:
Lisa Frank may have been a coked-up maniac, but her sense of color burned its way into the impressionable aesthetic centers of my young brain long ago. Bright goddamn rainbows are encoded into me the same way the Super Mario Bros. song is. So when I decided to learn the box chain for serious this time and found that you could get multicolor packs of anodized aluminum jump rings, well, there was no stopping me.
Camera playing again. Turns out the artificial light in this picture is noticeably different from the natural light in the other. Someday I will get this "photography" thing figured out.
Full thing, with toggle clasp. By the way, did you know that chainmaille weaving is hard on your back as well as your arms? I gotta work my muscles up to this. But hey, if my carpal tunnels give me trouble, I can always have dad refer me to a good neurosurgeon.
Next up I plan to do other colors of box chains, because you can never have too many colors, and learn some other weaves. I always rather liked the Persian star, too.
In other necklace news, yes, I did succeed in making a Fairy-Inna-Bottle necklace. I am still working out the best way to photograph the darn thing. I'm getting closer, in that it no longer looks quite like a tiny UFO, but it still doesn't look great. But it looks pretty cool in person, I assure you!
Lisa Frank may have been a coked-up maniac, but her sense of color burned its way into the impressionable aesthetic centers of my young brain long ago. Bright goddamn rainbows are encoded into me the same way the Super Mario Bros. song is. So when I decided to learn the box chain for serious this time and found that you could get multicolor packs of anodized aluminum jump rings, well, there was no stopping me.
Camera playing again. Turns out the artificial light in this picture is noticeably different from the natural light in the other. Someday I will get this "photography" thing figured out.
Full thing, with toggle clasp. By the way, did you know that chainmaille weaving is hard on your back as well as your arms? I gotta work my muscles up to this. But hey, if my carpal tunnels give me trouble, I can always have dad refer me to a good neurosurgeon.
Next up I plan to do other colors of box chains, because you can never have too many colors, and learn some other weaves. I always rather liked the Persian star, too.
In other necklace news, yes, I did succeed in making a Fairy-Inna-Bottle necklace. I am still working out the best way to photograph the darn thing. I'm getting closer, in that it no longer looks quite like a tiny UFO, but it still doesn't look great. But it looks pretty cool in person, I assure you!
