I Made a Chainmail Jester Hat and Collar (in 2 Days) for the Virginia Ren Faire скачать в хорошем качестве

I Made a Chainmail Jester Hat and Collar (in 2 Days) for the Virginia Ren Faire

Sometimes inspiration strikes at the least convenient time—like 3 AM, two days before the Virginia Renaissance Faire’s closing weekend. And when it does? Well, you drop everything to make a jester-inspired chainmail collar and headpiece. Obviously. In this video, I bring that vision to life with a dash of chaos, a lot of aluminum rings, and just enough structural integrity to jingle through the fairgrounds. From figuring out how to build triangles into drapey collar points, to shaping the maille around my head using good old-fashioned increases and decreases (just like in crochet!), this project was a whirlwind of improvisation, problem-solving, and bells. If you enjoy chaotic cosplay builds, sewing and crafting on a deadline, or just watching someone turn sleep-deprived ambition into wearable whimsy, you’re in the right place. Like and subscribe for more DIY costume chaos! ⚔️ To Support Making Hannah ⚔️ 👍🏻 Like 🤍 Subscribe ☕️ Donate on Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/makinghannah 🛒 Store: makinghannah.com 🍄 Follow me: -- Instagram - instagram.com/makinghannah -- TikTok - tiktok.com/@makinghannah ⚔️ Music Credit ⚔️ Epidemic Sound ⚔️ Transcription (limited by character count) ⚔️ Sometimes you just need an easy project to work on in between bigger projects. And sometimes you ignore those needs in order to bring to fruition an idea that jolted you awake in the middle of the night, two days before the deadline you created for yourself in your sleep. And guess which one we're doing today? Now, I love a renaissance faire mash-up, and with the Virginia Renaissance Faire's closing weekend coming up in two days, I've decided that court jesters need chainmail in a bad way. I don’t need it, I don't need it. I need it. So let's make some jester-inspired chainmail pieces to wear to the ren faire. The first place I think we should start is with a jester collar, which means we need to put together a bunch of triangles. I'll start with rings that I have already gone through and closed. When you typically order rings or even if you make them yourself using a spiraling technique, you'll still end up with rings that are slightly separated. This is particularly helpful when you're creating a bunch of four-in-ones to kick your project off, but that's not actually what we're going to do today. We're actually going to start by opening up a ring and adding two rings to it. And just like that, I have the point of my triangle. So we're going to look at this as rows: the point of the triangle being our first row, the two rings below it being our second row. Now we are going to work on our third row. I've used my first ring to connect those two, just to keep everything in place. Typically, as you're building this way, you'll be adding a ring to two rings from the row before, except for the outside one. To get our outside rings in our third row, we're just going to capture that last ring. Like so. And then do the same on the other side. And there she is, looking even more like a triangle. You can tell we have three rows: one, two, three. You'll also notice that the orientation of the rings in each row kind of goes back and forth. You'll definitely see that as we continue to build out. Let's get to work on row four. So again, I'm taking an open ring, connecting two rings together from the row previous. Another open ring connecting two of the rings from the previous row. For the outside corners, just grabbing that last ring. Now we're just going to keep building it out in the same way. Okay, so I'm already obsessed with the way these are draping. I think they're going to look so cute. I have ten rows. I think I'm going to stop here and work on duplicating these just to see how they're going to fall, how big I need to make them. I'm thinking I need eight total triangles, four in the front, four in the back, more or less. Let's do a little editing magic. All right. Now that I have all eight triangles and my fingers are only just starting to get nice and rough and filthy, let's get these connected. I'm going to start by just connecting the two bottom corners of the triangles all together into one circle, just to kind of get it oriented, and figure out exactly how much I need to build up from there. While I have visions of just comedically long jester frills coming off of this, I am also trying to be mindful of the fact that I have less than 48 hours to get this done. And like I said, my hands are already hurting. So let's get it to wearable, and then we can always build on it down the line. I tend to find it helpful to establish the ring orientation before I connect the corners. This helps me ensure that I'm maintaining the pattern and keeps things from getting twisted or turned around as I'm building. Okay, so we are off to a good start. Now comes the point where I try and build up kind of around my neck, and I think I'm going to do that by maintaining the orientation of the rings and building out a number of four-in-ones to just go...