For the past few days, we’ve been working on something called soldering. Soldering is a process when two or more items are attached by melting the items together. In this case, we’re using metal wires. In class, we are working on making pendants.
The first step was to brainstorm a couple of ideas for our pendant design. It was a little hard because we were only allowed to use five metal wires for our design. Then, we had to pick one design to use for our pendants. After a lot of thinking, I finally settled on one design. After we decided on which design we were going to do on the pendant, we had to make the outside of the pendant, but not the actual design yet.
We made the outside of the pendant by starting in the middle of the wire and wrapping the wire around the wooden stick, which would turn the wire into a circle. The reason why we started wrapping the wire in the middle is because we needed the two sides of the wire to tighten the circle. We had to twist the two wires three times, and when the outside of the pendant was tight enough, the outside of the pendant was complete. This was really fun and I’m so excited to make the actual design.