Thing a Week

I think I'm going to try to do a thing a week type challenge for my little craft projects. Starting this week I will try to make and post at least one new trinket each week. Here is this weeks trinket.



Basically it is a slice of copper pipe with a viking knit going toward the center. I got the inspiration from library book called Fabulous Woven Jewelry and I think I will continue to work with it as an inspiration for the next project.

random projects

I'm in no mood really describe and label all this stuff, just let me know what you think of any of them.

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Terrarium experiment

I'm now experimenting with terrariums. Check this out. I layered it with pebbles, charcoal, moss, topsoil and then a few seeds and this sensevaria plant.

It was interesting getting all that in through the little hole in the top. I will see if it all grows and post updates through the next couple of weeks.

Another Completed Commission

Tessa the mistress of wonderful cooking and Grad Student extraordinaire, requested a viking knit necklace much like the one I was commissioned to do for Sparkly Lady. She has a sensitivity to copper though so she wanted it our of silver. I got some silver wire and got to work. I had originally planned to use some copper and paint it for the end caps and clasp but I didn't like the look of that so I caved in and bought some silver findings to complete the piece. Here it is.

This is a finished length of the three nails knit. You can see the difference between this knit and viking knit. It is much easier to make wide ropes from this technique, however they are more hollow and see through, which does present the opportunity for inserting beads.

Alternate wire knitting

I've been working on another form of knitting wire.

It is very similar to how industrial knitting is done. A row of loops is pulled through the row beneath it. It goes a bit quicker than the viking knitting, since you don't have to thread the end of the wire through each loop.

The trade off is that the wire has to be formed prior to looping it. The wire needs to be wrapped around three nails on a board, over and over.


You can see from this starter piece that it looks pretty different from viking knitting. I will take some more pics of a completed length for comparison when I've got it done.

Also,
I made another herring bone weave piece to practice and to better show its construction.

Heres a shot from the side

Heres one from the back and one from the front.