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Making Matching Components for your Jewelry Design Hello and welcome to a new miniseries in Metalsmithing Jewelry. I have several new project tutorials coming your way this month and I needed a few wire components to use for some wire wrapping designs. I thought to myself, what a great time this would be to teach […]
A blogger’s nightmare….. I want to start by apologizing for the technical problems with my blog yesterday. If you visited my blog in the last few days, I am sure you noticed that the main blog page, along with the category pages, were displaying the entire content of each post, instead of the Image and […]
Square Stone Beaded Bezels Welcome back to Bead Weaving 101. In this series, I am taking the basic bead weaving stitches, one at a time, and exploring many of the variations and options we have as bead weavers. Understanding how these variations work will add untold value to our skills as jewelry designers. The first […]
The Finishing Touches As can happen from time to time, this project turned out a little bit more detailed than I first envisioned it to be. In the last post, Embellishing and Finishing, we left off right after finishing the ends of the bracelet and adding the clasps. Today we are going to add the […]
Embellishments and Finishing In a project such as the Ruffled Peyote Cuff, there are any number of ways to polish the final look and finish the ends. I am going to walk you through how I chose to finish the bracelet and embellish the components today. In the photo above you can see all of […]