Copper and Wool Bangle
I’ve previously posted a tutorial showing a fun way to use up the little bits of especially luscious yarn you may have left over from your fiber projects by incorporating them into fiber jewelry links. Here’s another way to use your precious leftovers. Just 10 feet of special worsted weight yarn is enough for this [...]
Fancy Headpins in Six Styles – Free Tutorial by Athena Gowton
Making your own headpins is a great way to save money on supplies, and it allows you to control another design element in your work. Athena Gowton has posted a wonderful free tutorial on jewelrylessons.com that teaches how to make five varieties of headpins without a torch. She has a number of other tutorials for [...]
Making and Joining Wrapped Loop Links
Linking wrapped loop links is a common way of making necklaces and bracelets. This tutorial assumes that you already know how to make a wrapped loop. To make several wrapped loop links, you will need: a few feet of dead soft wire (I like 20 gauge for this purpose) several beads whose holes can accommodate [...]
How to Make a Wrapped Loop
The wrapped loop is used very frequently in wire wrapped jewelry making. It can be used to link beads together to form beaded chains or to attach dangles to other jewelry components, such as ear wires. In fact, attaching a dangle to an ear wire by means of a wrapped loop is probably the most [...]
Spiral Head Pins and Simple Spiral Earrings – Free Tutorial
Elaborate earrings are fun to make and lovely to admire, but in everyday life many people prefer to wear simple earrings. This tutorial will show how to make simple spiral earrings like those shown below. Each earring is constructed in one piece, from a single piece of wire, rather than by attaching a dangle to [...]
How to Make a Simple Loop and Simple Loop Eye Pins
The simple loop is the most fundamental “cold connection” in the wire wrapped jewelry maker’s arsenal. Very simply, it is made by turning the end of a piece of wire into a loop. These little loops have very important uses, though, from linking beads together to form rosary-style chains to attaching the dangly bit of [...]
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Free Jewelry Making Tutorial: Antiquing Sterling Silver and Copper Jewelry with Liver of Sulfur
