Tuesday morning, I found a jewelry tutorial I wanted to try. It was, essentially, four identical heart-shaped pieces, locked together in a circle with wire wraps and beads to become a pendant. Here's what I started out to make: Wire wrapped flower pendant | Beaded wire pendent
Here's what came out:
Look at that janky thing. I bent the hearts to hell and back while I was trying to wrap them (a common occurrence for me), and the swirls were not uniform.
Wednesday morning, I started over. The second attempt was better - I didn't bend the hearts too much - but before I got halfway through it, I knew I'd have to do it over AGAIN.
I sat down and made a LOAD of the individual heart components, determined to be more precise. The swirls got better. The third attempt produced what might turn out to be "a keeper":
Today, I played with that bowl of spiral-y hearts to see what other configurations I could come up with. If you bend the hearts a little more than 90 degrees, you can connect more than 4 of them for something other than a square. Five hearts can make a hexagon. Six can make a circle. Any of those configurations come out a little "wiggly"/flexible.
I might have gotten more accomplished this week had I not misplaced my bail pliers. Been looking for them since Monday.
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