…compilation of tutorials
Needless to say that you can also put jewelry into the advent calendar boxes, such as this lovely River Troll Ring.
It looks as if you could make quasi on the spur of the moment and that it would always be a unique and personal item.
I simply find it beautiful!
Links:
River Troll Ring
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘jewelry’
Boxes not only for the advent calendar
A Wire Jig is a kind of board with pins where you can wind the wire. It is used for making jewelry.
And now I know how to make my own wire jig.
As you can see on the photo I gathered the pins already, I only have to find a wooden plate ;-)
And when you gathered all the elements of the wire jig, you can begin to make beautiful wire jewelry.
Links:
Make your own Wire Jig
WigJig University of Making Jewelry with Wire and Beads
As said before, I like to play around with weaving.
The other day I thought: Why not weave a ring?
I think that it worked out amazingly good ;-))
Material:
What to do:
Wind the yarn around the finger replacement and knot.
Then wind the next round, in doing so pass the yarn under itself.
Repeat the last step as long as you reach the ring’s width.
Now begin to weave: pass the yarn over and under the threads.
And that’s how the rings can look.
You have now a ring that you can embellish, e.g. with buttons or beads.
This technique surely can be enhanced, but it is fun already :)
Have fun!
From time to time I’m browsing at craftster.org and there I found a tutorial on how to make a glass pebble ring, where you can interchange the glass pebble at will.
I was mostly attired in the ‘reusability’ for every mood and colour.
Have fun with the bending
Beading is such a versatile technique and once I found some quick and simple projects: beaded rings and headbands.
The headbands are made in flat netting technique and as daisy chains, the rings are made in brick stitch, which isn’t difficult, too (the site provides links and diagrams who explain/show how to do the different stitches).
I like the flat netting technique, but beaded until now only small glass tubes (see photo).
Links:
Beaded Rings and Headbands (English) (with explaining diagrams)
Browsing craftster I found one day the thread about coin rings.
Somewhere in the thread is also a link to a tutorial on how to make your own coin ring (with many explaining pictures).
I can’t image that I will ever do this, but I find it interesting enough to present it here.
Perhaps someone wants to make their weddings rings this way? ;-))
Peyote stitching is a fast and easy way to create your own jewelry. To see how to make a ring see i.e. the instruction for the Peyote Stitch Beaded Ring from diy network.
If you don’t know how to work the Peyote stitch you may look for ‘Peyote’ at the Basic Beading Stitch Tutorials at About.com: Beadwork.
There are also very good (german) tutorials at Perlenhobby.de, click on
‘Anleitungen’ in the sidebar left and there select one of the Peyote tutorials.
Links:
diy network: A website with lots of tutorials
Peyote Stitch Beaded Ring
About.com: Beadwork: A website with lots of tutorials about beadwork
Basic Beading Stitch Tutorials
Perlenhobby.de: A website with lots of (german) tutorials about beadwork: click on
‘Anleitungen’ in the sidebar left and there select one of the Peyote tutorials