Silver Recap - Year Two

My third year of silver class will begin in a couple of weeks time so I just wanted to do a quick recap on what I've made over the last year. For once I've used the summer break to actually think about what I want to make over the next term but I'll save those plans for another post! 

To start with I made a quick pair of star stud earrings that I now wear every day.

Next up another pair of quick earrings! A theme starting here, these ones are two small circles, punched and then domed.

After Easter, I started a necklace. In a similar style to the Epic Bracelet of last year, I used square wire to create loads of different sized rings. I then soldered them together, I had originally set them all out and marked where they would all join but the marks rubbed off so it changed shape every week! Once all were soldered I just had to level it and sand it to make it super shiney and then add a chain.

Soldering in sections

Once the smaller sections were soldered, it was time to join them all together

I finished just in time for a meal out in York.

The last project was a quick ring. Again using the doming block and a couple of scrappy bits of silver. I made a dome out of a small circle and then a little blob to go in the centre. This was then soldered on to a ring. Done.

I tend to wear this one with the stacking rings I made in my first year.