Metal Ruffles...more fun with foldforming!

I have been having a blast experimenting lately with foldforming metal, after my sweet hubby gave me Charles Lewton-Brain's fabulous book Foldforming for our anniversary.   There is something so satisfying about taking a piece of raw metal and torturing it into submission!   Annealing, folding, hammering, annealing, hammering, annealing, opening, hammering some more...it is hard to stop! It also feels so freeing to know that aside from the little copper beads on the earwires, these are completely fabricated by me.

These started out as long leaves that I was going to enamel or add bead dangles to, but knowing today was my day on Earrings Everyday,  I decided to curl them around my ring mandrel to make hoop earrings.  I think they turned out pretty well!

I will definitely be adding these to my inventory, as well as some variations.  Deciding which side of the fold would show on the outside was sort of an "eeny, meeny, miney, mo" process.  I think the next ones will be reversed.