something that I want to make, I don’t bother sketching it first, I just start playing with the materials to make it work. The same goes for chainmaille now - I just come up with the idea and start linking rings.” Walilko took her first chainmaille class just five years ago and was hooked immediately, crediting her instructor’s ability to explain aspect ratio and teach chainmaille weaves.


“Chainmaille for me is very zen,” said Walilko. “Like beading, I love the repetitive nature of the craft. For whatever reason putting lots of little pieces together in order to make something really gets my motor running. People always tell me that I have the patience of a saint when I am really just putting my obsessive compulsive disorder to good use.”


Walilko said that it was her grandfather’s words that inspired her to take chainmaille beyond a hobby and throw her life into creating a jewelry business. “A few years ago, before dementia robbed him of his ability to speak, he held my hands and told me, ‘Enjoy every minute


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