My second ring!
January 6, 2012 in Rings
so, my second attempt to make a ring. This time I was a little more prepared, thinking it over for some days, to get all the details straight, instead of just going headstrong into the unknown.
I decided to make a ring with braided gold thread, and for the purpose I used three long strings, and three short strings. Now the idea was, that while the short strings only was to be used in the braid, the long strings were the ones going to put the ring together, and put pearls on them, to make a nice illusion of some fancy stones.
Therefore I put the short strings, so they were on the middle of the long ones. Now, it’s a hard thing to braid something from the very top, and I was very much in doubt it would succeed. Fortunately, my boyfriend, whom I’ve annexed for holding stuff when I need a third, or fourth hand, stated, that he could just hold on the middle of it all instead, so I could Braid one half first, and then the other half.
It worked very well, as this photo shows.
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