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Winner of Lisa Van Herik's Wire Jewelry Tutorial Giveaway
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Winner of Lisa Van Herik's Wire Jewelry Tutorial Giveaway

So many of you loved Lisa's take on wire jewelry judging from the response on last week's giveaway. It's easy to see why.

Her bold designs are modern and unique. They don't look very difficult to do and with Lisa's instructions, will be even less so.

So which contemporary jewelry lover won the giveaway? I first numbered all the eligible entries. The random number generator over at random.org was then used to pick the winning number. It was the number. It was the one assigned to dragonswing! This is an amazing win because the random number generator picked her lucky number two giveaways in a row!! Congratulations!
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More Beaded Chain Maille Bracelet Tutorials

Adding beads brings color to chain maille designs. There are 3 ways to introduce the beads :

string beads onto stringing wire which is crimped at each end of the piece
add beads to finer gauge jump rings
capture loose beads between the chain maille weaves

Gemma on Bead Barmy's tutorial is the first variety where she added beads along beading wire in a very open box chain weave.

Rawr.Rawr.x on Cut Out and Keep's first attempt at chain maille resulted in an eclectic weave. The beads were threaded onto large jump rings and informal groups of jump rings were added between the bead bearing ones. You could try Byzantine links as well.

The third way is my favorite as the beads are secured only by being caught inside the weave. This lovely chain maille bracelet with pearls tutorial is by Irina's Cute Box.

The captured bead bracelet video tutorial from Beadaholique is also worth a watch. The instructor suggests 2 sizes of rings and beads. She also points out faceted beads make more flexible bracelets as there is more space for movement.