Showing posts with label chain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chain. Show all posts

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Jewellery Class #6

For #5 we all went to our teacher's house to look at her jewellery, and she does very beautiful work!  We didn't make anything, so am skipping to class #6, the last class.

We made a beaded necklace with some chain, and a lot of looped eye and head pins.  We made some matching earrings too:

When I got home I added some purple and silver stardust beads to make the necklace a little longer, and I am going to give it to my cousin to wear with a shirt she asked me to make something for. 

Here is a close-up of the star-dust beads.  I love how they look.

Jewellery Class #3

In our third class we made a bracelet out of some glass and plastic beads, one type of which were tube beads, which I must say I didn't know about before I saw them.



We also made a cool necklace and earrings set out of chain.  Instead of a clasp in back, there's a toggle clasp in the front, which makes it the focal point of the necklace.  The teacher brought the chain pieces already cut to size, so we just assembled them.  They're pretty simple, but elegant, and I've worn them with a black turtleneck, and they look really nice.

Friday, 5 February 2010

Jewellery-Making Class, Day 2

Day 2 of our class, and we were ahead of schedule, so we jumped ahead to making a chain bracelet.  The teacher brought a stash of beads that we got to choose from and make our own design with.  This is what I made.


The beads were glass and plastic, the latter of which I'm not keen on using in the future, but the bracelet came out looking nice.  The most time-consuming part was making the loops in the wire pins, but it was worth it, I think.

EDIT:

I also made some earrings with matching beads: