Wire Working

[princess heart]

Hello....
Anyone work with wire? I find it fascinating and have made jewelry for several years from wire. I have plans to make some wire and bead embellished baskets. I just wondered if anyone else had worked with wire, I am not a beginner at this, but I could stand to learn some new techniques. Just beginning to get the nerve for jig work.... any wire benders out there?
PC

 

[Daily Miracle]

I've dabbled with it a few times. I'm pretty good at it, for jewelry, but I don't get hit with that many ideas for inspiration.

I did bend a coat wire perfectly for a "hard to reach" lock on an locked car because of my bending talents. One try was all it took, and it pulled the tab SIDEWAYS .

My favorite piece was a bracelet I made of polished stones. I wrapped each stone with a pretty squiggle of wire, and added a fresh water pearl in the squiggle...then made the loop to connect each stone to the chain. Those puppies will never fall off the chain. LOL

 

[princess heart]

Yeah, wire is pretty versatile and durable.
I just made a bracelet from a pattern similar to this one last night

http://www.wirediva.com/egyptian_coil.htm

I search through pattern books and haunt the library for my ideas. I haven't been working with wire long enough for it to speak original ideas to me yet, but I am hoping! I got the pattern for the Egyptian Coil bracelet from an old book that I got at the library. There are some wire books at the Design Original web site.

I love working with wire. I made my bracelet from copper wire since the real silver is out of my price rang.

 

[Daily Miracle]

I love that style. My favorite place for ideas is Ebay. There's always something different, and even if I don't like a particular piece, sometimes I see an idea in it that I can use.

 

[princess heart]

I love that style. My favorite place for ideas is Ebay. There's always something different, and even if I don't like a particular piece, sometimes I see an idea in it that I can use.

I like to look at the work of others and I do purchase pattern books, check out library books... but you know I can't follow the directions, there is a rebellious something in me that forces me to change SOMETHING about the piece. Can you make something exactly the way the directions instruct you?