Starting new chain

I have started work on some new chain. It is intended to be a neckpiece (more a collar than a necklace) made of crescent-shaped links. It may be similar in appearance to chain maille but the large links will not be closed rings, so I hope it will look airier and be lighter to wear.

There are still some design details to work out. The size of link I am trialling is a bit small for my clumsy fingers to connect, especially in the top row. But that is a part of the design process that I really enjoy - finding a way to take an idea and turn it into a real, wearable item.
- 21 November 2007

The First Post

I B Impatient Beginner.

Impatient Beginner wants to do cool stuff right away, right now, immediately, without wasting time learning how to do it. Things probably take longer that way, but IB explores lots of territory that otherwise might not get visited.

The major directions that IB is galloping off in as at November 2007 are jewellery making (wirework and polymer clay), photography and photo editing using GIMP, gardening (or more accurately, trying to tame the jungle currently occupying the space where the garden should be), basic sewing (interested in renovating old garments) ... not to mention blogging.

Impatient Beginner's blog will be the record of my adventures learning some of the above skills. As I learn how to organise posts according to subject or whim, the look of the blog may change. Probably unpredictably. But I hope that the basic areas of interest will persist and reveal some progress.

So Hello World. Greetings from IB, and welcome to IB's blog.

Now I buzz off for a while and do stuff so I will have something to write about later.