HI
found your blog on your wire crochet bracelet, you did a great job! 34ga is not the easiest ga to work with. i have been doing wire crochet for about 10 years, and totally love it. i look forward to every new project. i have been writing workshops for Lapidary Journal and their newer issues Step by Step Beads and now Wire. in the past 10 years, 13 have been published, and i understand you can go back and get back projects.
some tips if you like, when you crochet with the wire, try the afghan stitch. you carry it on the hook, so you are limited by the size of the hook, but you get a really nice piece. it appears to be loomed, especially when you bring in beads. i usually work them in as i work each stitch off the hook.
also, you may have to reinforce the edges, when you make a wide piece you will find it will bend or roll up, not retaining the wide flat piece you made. you can get a heavy gauge and weave it on each edge. i will work several short pieces woven in too, to keep the bracelet from bending.
you can do amazing things, my roses, individual petals, is always something that gets attention. people can't imagine you can do all that with wire. i mostly work in silver, soft, and 26,28 and 30. some 32 and 34. my 34ga will be a necklace i think, with swarovski crystals.
to get an easy viking knit, try this. you may remember using a wooden thread spool, with nails hammered into one end. i use 4 nails. you can actually purchase fancy smanchy spools, i still use my wooden spool. we used to use yarn and make long cord, and after so many pot holders and dollhouse rugs, i never could figure out what to do with them. well, if you use wire, you get viking knit. you can do a double stitch, just wrap the wire around twice, the trick, bring the bottomwire over the rest of them as you go around.
i can send you more info if you want to try that, i am spoiled,and only use that way, you don't have to work in ends for starts and finishes and that's all good for me
you did a great job, if you would like to see some of my work,try Imageevent.com. and/or AOL Page
wirecrochet
HI
found your blog on your wire crochet bracelet, you did a great job! 34ga is not the easiest ga to work with. i have been doing wire crochet for about 10 years, and totally love it. i look forward to every new project. i have been writing workshops for Lapidary Journal and their newer issues Step by Step Beads and now Wire. in the past 10 years, 13 have been published, and i understand you can go back and get back projects.
some tips if you like, when you crochet with the wire, try the afghan stitch. you carry it on the hook, so you are limited by the size of the hook, but you get a really nice piece. it appears to be loomed, especially when you bring in beads. i usually work them in as i work each stitch off the hook.
also, you may have to reinforce the edges, when you make a wide piece you will find it will bend or roll up, not retaining the wide flat piece you made. you can get a heavy gauge and weave it on each edge. i will work several short pieces woven in too, to keep the bracelet from bending.
you can do amazing things, my roses, individual petals, is always something that gets attention. people can't imagine you can do all that with wire. i mostly work in silver, soft, and 26,28 and 30. some 32 and 34. my 34ga will be a necklace i think, with swarovski crystals.
to get an easy viking knit, try this. you may remember using a wooden thread spool, with nails hammered into one end. i use 4 nails. you can actually purchase fancy smanchy spools, i still use my wooden spool. we used to use yarn and make long cord, and after so many pot holders and dollhouse rugs, i never could figure out what to do with them. well, if you use wire, you get viking knit. you can do a double stitch, just wrap the wire around twice, the trick, bring the bottomwire over the rest of them as you go around.
i can send you more info if you want to try that, i am spoiled,and only use that way, you don't have to work in ends for starts and finishes and that's all good for me
you did a great job, if you would like to see some of my work,try Imageevent.com. and/or AOL Page
that has links to other sites as well
lots of luck
pat
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