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.

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I also made some earrings with matching beads:

Jewellery-Making Class, Day 1

Joyfully, the class didn't get cancelled this time, and I booked it out of work, super-excited to get started.  It's a comfortable class of five students and an experienced teacher, and we got along pretty well even if most of the time we weren't saying much, concentrating on our work so much.

Another nice surprise was that we were provided with a whole new set of tools, so I got another pair of wire cutters, round nose pliers, and flat nose pliers.  I already bought a set for the class I was supposed to take in September, and brought them with me because I didn't know. 

On Day 1 we made two pairs of earrings.  We were only supposed to make one pair, but everyone in the class either had some previous experience, or picked it up really quickly, so we finished them rather ahead of schedule.

The main focus of the class seemed to be learning how to make connecting loops with eye pins and head pins instead of just stringing beads on wire, and we put that into practice a lot with the pair of earrings we made next:

So, being ahead of schedule, I must say I'm excited for the rest of the classes beacuse we may end up learning things we wouldn't have done otherwise.

Jewellery-Making Class, Take 2!

Durham College is offering their jewellery-making class again, so of course I signed up again.  It starts at the end of January, as long as enough people sign up for it.  Still, if it does get cancelled, there's another one in April, and there may be a better turn-out for that one since the weather will be better by then.