Infinite Wings

Weave Description
This weave is an embellished of a single strand of Gridlock. Infinite Wings uses several ring sizes, but there is some wiggle room if you don't have exactly the exact sizes listed here.
NOTE: This weave was original published in Wirework magazine under the name Coiled Butterfly.

The center rings of the original strip of Gridlock alternate in size (a small colored ring alternating with a large plain ring). The outer (colored) rings are close in size to the small center rings.

To add the wings and "coils," join new large rings (slightly smaller than the large rings used for the center strip) with tiny colored rings.

The top photo uses the following ring sizes:
Gridlock Base:
large jump rings - 16ga 13/32" (10.3 mm)
small jump rings - 16ga 15/64" (6.0 mm)
medium anodized aluminum rings, black – 16ga 1/4” (6.4 mm)

Winged Coils:
large aluminum jump rings (slightly smaller than used in the base) - 16ga 23/
64" (9.1 mm)
tiny anodized aluminum rings, red – 18ga 5/32” (4.0 mm)

The bottom image uses the following ring sizes:
Gridlock base:
13 large aluminum jump rings - 18ga 9/32" (7.1 mm)
14 small aluminum jump rings - 18ga 11/64" (4.4 mm)
52 medium enameled copper jump rings, purple – 19ga 3/16” (4.8 mm)

Winged Coils:
26 large aluminum jump rings (slightly smaller than used in the base) - 18ga
17/64" (6.7 mm)
52 tiny enameled copper jump rings, dark teal – 20ga 1/8” (3.2 mm)

NOTE: Wire guages are as follows:
16ga base metal = 0.062" / 1.6 mm
18ga base metal = 0.048” / 1.15 mm
19ga EC = 0.041” / 1.05 mm
20ga EC = .0.33” (0.84 mm)

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