I'm completing the medallions in stages... I started out the first night and made nine flat medallions...
On the second night, I started putting in the second layer, and made more flat medallions. These flat medallions remind me of ancient coins. A friend of mine says they remind her of sand dollars...
In the photo above, I have corrected the angle, and the medallion is the way it will be when I put them together...
The photo below shows one of the smaller medallions.
My belt will have 20 medallions alltogether...
Next to the larger center medallion below, I have a smaller medallion with all three layers... next to it is a medallion with two layers...
Here, I have five medallions with all three layers fired...
These are photos of a single layer pmc medallion, before firing, with and without flash. I made them very rough... and after firing they remind me of very ancient coins...
Here is a fired and burnished first layer medallion...
Now, with the second layer fired and burnished...
And here, with three layers...
February 12, 2006...
I picked up more wire to continue the construction last Thursday, but unfortunately discoveredyesterday that they must have mixed things up, as when I started firing the pieces, the wire turned black, a thing called scaling... This means the wire must be sterling silver... The wire I'd gotten before turned white after torching... and it was fine silver wire... So I'm off to the store tomorrow, hoping to get a credit or something... I unfortunately also must take a few pieces apart, because it took me a while to figure out what was going on...
Still, I have completed nine medallions as far as the three layers go... and here they are:
I have also ordered some gold that I will use to layer over the medallions when I get that far; after that, I will use gold wire and crimp beads, two per joining, to fasten the medallions together, and one hook in the back...
February 14, 2006...
Today, I did more firing on the medallions. At this time, I have eleven medallions with two layers finished, and eleven medallions with three layers finished. I'm getting close to just waiting for the gold to arrive. Some photos below...
The medallion pointed out with the red arrow has been coated in a 24 K gold paste, a sample of the paste from Carol at the bead store... I am not happy with the color, so I'm waiting for the pmc gold lump clay. I have been told the clay will give a more gold shade as compared to the yellow color of the gold paste.
February 18, 2006.
My PMC Gold arrived today. I planned to make it into a paste and paint the silver medallions with it... It is not quite what I had in mind, however. I will continue to use it, but I also think I will then use Liver of Sulfer to make an antiqued patina on the medallions. First, I need to get the Liver of Sulfer. It is available through Fire Mountain Gems, but as I'll be going out of town at the end of the week, I will wait to order when I am back.
March 3, 2006.
The Liver of Sulfer arrived today, and I tried it out. I think this is exactly what I was looking for. Here are a few photos. So far, I have dipped five of the medallions. They are not in the dip more than a moment. I left a few in too long, and found this was no problem; I could re-fire them, and start over.
March 3, 2006.
Getting a consistant tarnish with the Liver of Sulfer is Hard. And, I find it not as easy as I thought it would be to re-fire and dip again. But, slowly but surely, I am making progress.
I started making the connections with wire and crimp beads this morning. Here are a few more photos, along with some of the medallions that have been dipped.
The medallions to the right and left, two deep... were re-fired and re-dipped after taking this photo.
Here is a photo of the back side of the medallions.
And, more photos...
Peter Jackson's visualization of The Lord of the Rings woke my latent passion for costuming and inspired me to learn to sew.
This page and its links reflect my best efforts in Lord of the Rings costuming.
Projects linking to their own pages are featured here. Click the links in the navigation bar to visit the individual pages, or scroll further below to the image links and see a quick overview of the costumes.
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Welcome to Yvette's
Nearly ten years ago I set out to teach myself to sew, so that I could create inspired costumes such as those featured on my site.
I created this site to share what I've done. It launched August 18, 2004, and has been growing ever-since.
In addition to costume construction pages, there are pages featuring portraits of the costumes being worn.
Costuming is a hobby I love documenting, but I do not do commissions, nor do I sell patterns.
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