redbird | More on wandering wire (Reply)

I took a look at the two pairs of earrings I have from

elisem in something like the style that she taught me and

kythryne about yesterday. The magenta ones seem to focus on a spiral made before it was anchored to the rest of the piece. The silver ones with the pale blue Swarovski crystals are closer to what she showed us, but with lots of lovely curves and fewer intersections and anchor points.

Also, googling on "wandering wire" gets me a link or two to Elise's work, and an assortment of things that have nothing to do with jewelry. If anyone else (except

kythryne, soon) is using this jewelry-making technique, they're either not being discussed online, or they call it something else.

Also: Metalliferous has what look like the kind of pliers I need, and I think I'm going to pick up a cheap pair to play with while I figure out whether I want to spend a lot of time on this. (The price difference between the cheap ones and the Lindstroms that Elise and Kythryne were talking about is something like a factor of eight.) And I'm wondering about colored/coated wire. I definitely want more Swarovski crystals, and maybe some other small beads (I've been using what I got in Beads of the Month for earrings--the large packages for colors of night and pearls both have good small beads--but it's not enough.