Marilyn Gardiner's Petal Maille Pendant

Petal Maille Pendant

by Marilyn Gardiner

Category: Chain Maille
Technique(s): Chain Making
Skill Level: Beginner

This heart is made up of Mobius ball segments. These Mobius balls are made with 3 jump rings (5.5 mm ID), and each ring goes through every other riong in the ball. The balls are connected together in rows with medium rings (4.5 mm ID) to create a heart shaped pendant.

Materials

16-gauge 5mm ID round Copper jump rings

Lesson Quantity: 78.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each

18 gauge 4.5mm ID round Copper jump rings

Lesson Quantity: 75.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each

20 gauge 5mm ID round Copper jump rings

Lesson Quantity: 11.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each

16-gauge 4.5mm ID round Copper jump rings

Lesson Quantity: 2.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 1.00 each

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Tools

Flat Nose Wire Plier

G2-506

G2-506
Lesson Quantity: 2.00 pieces
Purchase Quantity: 2.00 each
Price: $32.95
Gold Club Price: $24.71

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Instructions

Step 1

The Weave: Mobius Balls

Use pliers to insert a large ring through the closed large ring and close it.

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Step 2

Set down the pliers in your left (non-dominant) hand and use your fingers to turn the dangling ring to the left.
Use the pliers, still holding the newly closed ring, to slide it sideways, behind the previous ring.
Keep holding the rings..

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Step 3

Insert a large ring (front to back) through the center of the previous rings.

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Step 4

Close it. Turn the dangling rings to the left. Slide the new ring sideways so the top of the new ring sits behind the previous ring.
Keep holding the rings..

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Step 5

Pick up a medium ring, insert it through the center of the Mobius ball and close it. This ring locks the Mobius rings in place.
You have completed one Mobius component.

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Step 6

Make the Mobius Components
Set out your A & B rings.
Make rows of 1 closed large ring, 2 open large rings, and 1 open medium ring.
Review the Mobius weave instructions.
Repeat steps 1-5 to make 25 Mobius components.

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Step 7

Link the Mobius Components
Lay out the Mobius balls to form a heart shape. Start at the bottom with one ball. The next row has 2 balls, then 3, 4, 5, and the long top row has 6 balls. You will have 4 balls left over, and these will create the heart shape at the top corners. See the main photo as your guide.

Step 8

Start by joining 2 balls together. Pick up one ball and re-open the medium locking ring with your pliers. Insert that ring through the centre of a second ball, and re-close the ring.

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Step 9

Add a third ball using the same strategy.

Pro Tip: TIP: Open the locking rings fairly wide when connecting 2 Mobius balls together.

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Step 10

Arrange the 3 balls into a triangle shape. Use the end locking ring to join the two end balls together to make this shape. These are the first two rows.

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Step 11

Repeat Steps B & C to make a row of 3 Mobius balls.
When building a shape, the rule is that each Mobius gets connected to every other Mobius it touches.
Open more locking rings and start to connect your row of 3 balls to a row of 2 balls.
Notice that each Mobius in row 2 is attached to 2 balls of row 3.

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Step 12

Make a strip of 4 Mobius balls and add it to your heart.
Notice that each Mobius in row 3 is attached to 2 balls of row 4.
Continue to add the Mobius balls for rows 5 and 6.

Marilyn Gardiner's Petal Maille Pendant - , Chain Maille Jewelry, Making Chain, Chain Making , Continue adding with jump rings

Step 13

Join the remaining 4 Mobius balls into 2 pairs. Complete the heart shape by adding one pair at the upper left and the other pair on the right.
Note: each pair will sit above the 3 balls at each side of Row 6.

Step 14

Stabilize the Edges of the Heart:
All of the Mobius balls are connected to each other with a single locking ring. In this step we are going to double up the locking rings all around the outside edges of the heart.
Open 17 of the medium rings and insert them one-by-one between each pair of Mobius balls around the outside edges.

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Step 15

Options to help you finish your project - Plan the Side Chains:

A. One option is to make long chains of Mobius balls linked together with pairs of locking rings. See the cover photo. My necklace has 27 Mobius balls in each side chain. Each side chain is 9.25" long. I used 27x2x3=162 large rings, and 27x2x2=108 medium rings.

B. Another option is to use bead stringing techniques to make 2 side chains. This requires beads, flexible beading wire, crimps, wire protectors, and crimp covers. Use 2 D rings for adding beaded side chains.

C. Other options include side chains made with seed beads (example a peyote or bead-crochet tube). Or Viking knit chains. Or Kumihimo. Or leather.

Step 16

Attach a Clasp
I haven't chosen a clasp yet, but it could be a brass magnet, box, toggle, lobster, fold over, or S-hook clasp. Choose one that fits the scale and look of the side chains you make.

Step 17

Explore and Experiment: Make a Bracelet & Earrings
You could make a matching Möbius bracelet (and you could add embellishments next to the clasp to match those you used for the heart.)
Similarly, you can add a Möbius (or two or three) to an ear finding - along with a dangling charm or bead.

Congratulations! You've made your first Petal Maille Pendant!

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Reviews

Marilyn Gardiner

I am a teacher who worked for many years as a teacher librarian and educational computer consultant. As part of my job I taught teachers and principals how to use computers in the classroom and I developed curriculum modules.I love jewelry, color, pattern, and design. It is thrilling to create something new that others love too. And I truly enjoy breaking down something complex into an easy-to-learn sequence that I can share with others, whether in print or in a classroom.

During the past 10 years I have energetically and enthusiastically developed my beading and chain mail skills and used my teaching background with adults to develop bead work and chain mail kits with step-by-step instructions that really work. I know that the kits have good quality instructions because of the positive feedback from students I teach and from customers who buy the kits at shows and from my online store.I regularly teach classes locally in Toronto ON, as well as occasionally in Mississauga, Barrie, Temple TX and San Antonio TX.I have been a vendor at bead shows in Toronto ON, Guelph ON, Montreal QC, Ottawa ON, Calgary AB, Halifax NS, Milwaukee WI, and Tucson AZ - and I teach a full slate of classes at these shows. My website has details.

In 2007 I was "Folk Artist in Residence - Beadwork" at the Joseph Schneider Haus in Kitchener ON. This involved setting up a series of lectures, seminars, and demonstrations throughout the year. There was also a good-sized gallery exhibit of beadwork that featured my work and included the contemporary and historical work of many others. The residency resulted in several articles in the local media.

I later completed a bead work commission for the museum, and some of my work is sold in the museum gift shop.I have published projects available online at Beading Times, Bead Bugle, All Free Jewelry, and The Beading Gem's Journal. Some of my kits are sold online through Beadfx. Kalmbach Publishing published my first book, Modern Chain Mail Jewelry, in 2015.Most of my time at present is directed to creating new chain mail projects.

I am currently working on several new designs that will be ready as kits and for teaching this fall. Each of these will have an Argentium sterling and a copper or Jeweler's Bronze version, and a couple will be silver filled 925/10. This will bring my chain mail kit total to more than 150. (My husband makes all our jump rings and packages the kits. Good man!)

Website: www.marilyngardiner.com Facebook: www.facebook.com/GardinerDesign