Autumnal captured chain maille bracelet

I do love Pinterest it takes you all sorts of cool places and fires up all sorts of cool ideas. I was looking into chain maille techniques and came across this tutorial  from the good folks at Beadaholique, a website I can happily crawl inside with a hot cup of tea and a biscuit and not leave for some time. 

I had a beautiful leaf shaped clasp that I bought on my holidays from the fabulous little shop in Tenby. 

I had a bag of copper jump rings from some aborted ancient project and I had a load of Swarovski bicones left over from making my wedding jewellery (I really need to do a "what I made for my wedding post" soon, so you can see my true starting point in my jewellery making).  I decided to use an Autumnal theme and have green and orangey coloured crystals. 

Starting work on the bracelet

Here is the end result.  I have had a load of positive comments on it, I think it is perfect piece for this time of year.