Evolution

Several years ago when I first started doing this, I found a couple of matching red chandelier type crystals at the flea market. A while after that (approximately April 2006) one of them found it's way into a necklace. Technically I suppose you could say it was my first chainmaille piece, since it has lots of little jump rings attached to each other. I really had no idea what I was doing; I was just trying to hide the wire I used to make the "hanger" (aka bail and frame all in one). The other crystal continued to sit in my tackle box until last spring's burst of experimentation. I thought I'd just post pics of the two necklaces together as an example of a) the evolution of my work, and b) how the same crystal looks set in different manners.

This is the first make-shift-maille piece made in spring of 2006:


And below the second piece set in a stainless steel frame wire wrapped in a contrasting craft wire, spring of 2009: