Phooey!!! (or pliers therapy)

Yep!  That's what I said, "Phooey!"  For 2 months I've been trying and failing to start a dragonscale bracelet.  Double Phooey!  Sad thing is, I didn't make anything else.  Nuttin.  It was like the muse had left the building.  All because I was being stubborn and determined to make that silly dragonscale bracelet.

Now I've made dragonscale before, about 5 years ago to be exact, and had no problems.  So I know it's possible.  My mind knows how to do it.  I just can't get the darned thing started because the rings want to fall all over the place.  (and yes, I've tried multiple strategies to nail them down- I guess you have to be smarter than the rings!  :op)

So tonight I waved the white flag.  I gave up. . . on the dragonscale. . . for now.  I realized that the dragonscale weave had just decided it didn't want to be made right now.  Maybe later it will be more cooperative.

Then I took out a big bag of 18 gauge BA rings, I think they are 1/4 inch in diameter and a container of 20 gauge, 5/8 inch diameter BA rings.  I'm forcing myself to make a Japanese variant weave simply to get creative again.  This is not my favorite weave, but it's simple, and I need to see some success in my work again.  After a half hour of work, I was imagining how it might look with triangles, danglies and scales, so it just might be working.  Only time will tell.  And this isn't something I have to finish.  I see it more as therapy than work as such.  Open the ring, put through other rings, close the ring.  Doesn't get much more boring than that UNTIL you see the wonderful patterns emerge.  That's what I love about maille.