Having a studio open to the public and a workshop teaching jewellery making classes, I often have conversations with ladies who find it hard to get the right ring to fit over their knuckles, in most cases due to arthritis. I had taken on commissions in the past when asked to make wide or chunky rings that fit over bigger knuckles, with stones on top, and found that due to the ring having to be bigger to go over the knuckle, coupled with the fact that you need to go up at least half a size for wider rings, the stone on top would never stay put and roll back and forth. These days, having learned from this, I now recommend that if you want to wear wider rings, you buy stacking rings and that way you can remove them one at a time from the finger, you can wear smaller sizes than wide bands and depending on the design you can mix and match the configuration to make it interesting. Here’s the rings I wear every day, I remade my original wedding band to incorporate a beach stone to update my
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