Making Chain Maille Easier
Does your chain maille sometimes end up as a jumbled mess? When you try a new chain maille pattern it can be very frustrating trying to follow the pattern. Each time you pick up the pattern to add a ring everything moves around. It can be hard to work out where you are up to and get all of the rings back into their proper place.
Instructions
My solution when I am learning a new pattern is to use different colored rings for the different steps.
This makes it much easier to spot when the rings have flipped into the wrong position and you can easily see which rings were added last.
This makes it much easier to spot when the rings have flipped into the wrong position and you can easily see which rings were added last.
This can save you a lot of time and stress. You might even find you like the multicolored version more.
Rotate the colors to help you keep track of where you are at!
Materials
Enameled Craft Wire to pick variety of colors to make jump rings
Tools
Chain Nose Wire Pliers
G2-508
- G2-508
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Flat Nose Wire Pliers
G2-506
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WireJewelry - Ultimate Wire-Pliers Jewelry Pliers with Case, Set of 5
G15-20
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5 Piece Steel Mandrel Set
G7-5
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7 Inch Coil Cutting Jump Ring Making Plier with PVC Comfort Grips - Pack of 1
G2-110
- G2-110
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4 Inch Saw Frame
SAW-344.00
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2/0 Relentless Sawblade - Sold by the Dozen
SAW-400.05D
- SAW-400.05D
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- Category: Chain Maille
- Technique(s): Chain Maille
Kylie Jones
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