Making the ring brooch was kind of frenetic and heartfelt, I didn't have a lot of time to plan it - I had thought about mixing up the mokume with other techniques before but didn't think I would like it - but I did. I feel like I threw caution to the wind with this piece and am really pleased with the result!
I had not done kum-boo before so, as it was being demoed in the class thought I would give it a go. It was really pretty easy, warm up the silver to about 600F on a hot plate and burnish on the gold foil, raising the fine silver on the sterling was the only tedious bit. One of the gals in the class had some hole punches with different designs so I used the spiral and then used up the little pieces of the gold foil that had come away with the punch.
The other women in my book group had knitted a wrap as a big hug for Virginia whenever she needed it, so as I don't knit the pin was my contribution. Making it gave something to me too which was a lovely surprise! I will try and upload a bigger pic, it was a bad, v.hasty photo though.
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Making the ring brooch was kind of frenetic and heartfelt, I didn't have a lot of time to plan it - I had thought about mixing up the mokume with other techniques before but didn't think I would like it - but I did. I feel like I threw caution to the wind with this piece and am really pleased with the result!
I had not done kum-boo before so, as it was being demoed in the class thought I would give it a go. It was really pretty easy, warm up the silver to about 600F on a hot plate and burnish on the gold foil, raising the fine silver on the sterling was the only tedious bit. One of the gals in the class had some hole punches with different designs so I used the spiral and then used up the little pieces of the gold foil that had come away with the punch.
The other women in my book group had knitted a wrap as a big hug for Virginia whenever she needed it, so as I don't knit the pin was my contribution. Making it gave something to me too which was a lovely surprise! I will try and upload a bigger pic, it was a bad, v.hasty photo though.
Lynda