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Jewelry Crafts

Ebook Review: Crunchy Granola Charm

January 25, 2010

I’m interested in reviewing more self-published books and ebooks this year. Yvette Doss sent me a review copy of Crunchy Granola Charm, the first title from her new indie publishing company, Blooming Editions.
The title refers not to breakfast cereal, but to a moniker some people give to the 1960s cultural scene. The ebook contains seven [...]

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How to Make a Stiffened Fabric Flower Brooch

October 28, 2009
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Yup. I’m still messing around with fabric stiffener. Here’s the latest result – a cool little dimensional fabric flower brooch. Suitable for crocheted hats, handbags, lapels, and scarves!

…And they’re pretty easy to make.

If you like, you can download my template for the flower shapes here. Or you can design your own.

Then, use my templates or [...]

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How to Make a Button-and-Wire Brooch

October 15, 2009
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I’m still noodling with buttons and wire over here… and this is the latest result. I like how the design can take on a “shooting star” effect, or resemble a little flower vase.

This isn’t a complicated project – please don’t let the number of photos here fool you! I was just trying to be thorough.

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How to Make Stiffened Fabric Jewelry

September 15, 2009
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This project is a real example of crafty serendipity. I’ve been noodling with this stiffened-fabric idea since June, but with one thing and another and another, haven’t gotten around to posting it.
When I finally went to photograph this tutorial, I realized the season was changing, and I’d need to switch from the summery fabrics I’d [...]

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Embroidery + Metal?

August 10, 2009

Here’s something I’ve been noodling around with lately – embroidered metal discs!

Wait – what?

I bought a bag of these perforated beading discs a while back, intending to make some beaded pieces a la Miriam Haskell.

Only I never quite got around to those, and eventually a different light bulb went on over my head. I could [...]

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Review: The Complete Guide to Wire & Beaded Jewelry

July 16, 2009

I circle back to wire crafting pretty regularly. Wire is such an intriguing medium for jewelry, and doesn’t require any special soldering or cutting skills. And, thanks to The Complete Guide to Wire & Beaded Jewelry, I can see just how many cool possibilities it has.

Clearly, Linda Jones knows her wirework backwards and forwards, and [...]

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How to Wire a Button Letter

June 11, 2009

I was teaching a button pendant class at a wonderful local shop called All My Favorite Things over the weekend. And in chatting with the shop’s owner, Melanie, I stumbled onto this fun little idea.

You’ve likely seen this style of button necklace. Well, this project replicates that kind of stringing, only with wire.

Wanna play? Get [...]

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Makin’ for Maker Faire: Cricut Jewelry

May 25, 2009

This coming weekend, I’ll be at Maker Faire! I’ll be at the Provo Craft booth, helping to demo some of their products, and doing lots of podcast recording. Yes, super excited, thank you!

Provo was kind enough to send me some machines to play with in advance. Here I’m using a Cricut Expression, which precision-cuts letters [...]

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How to Make a Quilted Pendant

May 13, 2009

Ever since I did the fabric postcard tutorial for CraftStylish last week, I’ve been obsessing over this pendant idea. Seemed to me that if you just shrunk the postcard project a little, it would make a really cool pendant. I like the result!

Here’s how I made it:

Just as with the postcards, I’m using Friendly Felt [...]

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Excellent Mail and Crochet Closure

May 13, 2009

Wow, the mail folks have been bringing wonderful things of late. Mandi and I are doing another swap, and her box arrived over the weekend. Isn’t this piece lovely? She made the lampworked beads. (She also made my beaded Crafty pen, which I’m still using to this day.)

And, Mandi makes hand-bound journals. I love this [...]

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Review: Beyond the Bead

April 21, 2009

You might remember Margot Potter from the recent podcast about branding. This is her latest book, which uses mixed media techniques in jewelry projects. And I’m digging it on many levels.

First, I don’t dip into mixed media very often. I think the techniques make beautiful things, but I just don’t make many purely “art” pieces, [...]

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Woodworking w/o carpentry skills!

April 2, 2009

Hey! Check it out!

I have a new tutorial up on the CRAFT blog. I made three jewelry pieces using wood inlay strips, which you can get at woodworking stores or online. They’re intricate and beautiful, and best of all, they cut with a utility knife, so they’re easy to use for all kinds of crafty [...]

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Craft With Me this Weekend!

March 24, 2009

Hey, Locals -

If you need some crafty fun this weekend, please join me at Twisted, where I’ll be teaching two classes:

On Saturday, I’m teaching Wire Crochet Flower Pendants. This class is designed for folks who’ve had at least a little crochet experience. The flowers are simple to make once you’ve mastered the technique, and you [...]

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Review: Create Jewelry: Glass

March 16, 2009

(Before I begin, I want to thank you all for your great feedback on craft book reviews! I’m working on some new ideas based on your comments, which I’ll implement in the coming weeks. You have such excellent brains.)

In most bead stores, glass beads are pretty ubiquitous. So I wasn’t sure what to expect when [...]

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Review: Vintage Redux

November 25, 2008

This is an intriguing book – I’m always attracted to the idea of deconstructing and reconstructing jewelry components, but get intimidated. So I’m digging all the great ideas in Vintage Redux: Remake Classic and Collectible Jewelry.

Brenda Schweder not only has a great collection of reconstructed jewelry designs, she’s also written the book around the fact [...]

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. . . In which I dabble in mod-ness

October 10, 2008

Hi, guys -

I have a new how-to up at CraftStylish today. This time, I made a crocheted ring bracelet. It’s a simple craft with a ton of possibility – takes a little practice to get the crochet started around the ring, but it’s all ball bearings from there. Hope you like!

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Careful: Beads Ahead

October 7, 2008

I had lunch with Teresa last week, and of course we got to talking about beading. She had a great insight about beading: that it can be dangerous to begin a design from “love of the materials.”

This really hit home for me, because it’s unconsciously been my own approach to jewelry-making, and it really [...]

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Review: Fabulous Fabric Beads

October 3, 2008

As promised, here’s another interesting fiber-jewelry book. Fabulous Fabric Beads by Kristal Wick is one of those high-value craft books that teaches you lots of different craft techniques within a simple project framework.

The first section of the book is about making designs on a fabric surface. Each technique has clear step-by-step photos, and whether you [...]

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Review: Felt, Fabric, and Fiber Jewelry

October 1, 2008

I have a couple of cool fiber jewelry books to share with you this week – this one is by the talented Sherri Haab, I’m such a fan of jewelry made from non-traditional materials. . . . Well, let’s face it – I’m a fan of anything made from non-traditional materials.

Anyway, Felt, Fabric, and Fiber [...]

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Review: Custom Cool Jewelry

September 16, 2008

I’m really liking Custom Cool Jewelry by Melinda Barta – a nice blend of mixed media and jewelry-making, using very easy-to-find materials. There are so many cool ideas in here, like:

This adorable stamped fabric pendant! And fabric appears later in the book in the form of awesome grommeted charms.

Then we have more complex-looking things, like [...]

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Assorted New Things

September 14, 2008

Hey, everyone – I have two new posts up on CraftStylish:

The first is a how-to for making woven ribbon jewelryy. This involves weaving fabric from 1/4″ and 1/8″ ribbons and then using it to cover buttons. I loves me some woven-ribbon fabric.

I also have a little crafty zine roundup over there. If you’re new to [...]

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Review: Create Jewelry: Stones

September 3, 2008

Here’s a lovely new book from Interweave Press. It’s part of the Create Jewelry series from Marlene Blessing and Jamie Hogsett.

Chaledony bracelet. All photos here are from Create Jewelry: Stones.

I’m excited about Create Jewelry: Stones because, while I love the subtle color and heft of gemstones, it’s hard to find well-designed jewelry made from them. [...]

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Review: The Naughty Secretary Club Book

August 21, 2008

This one probably gets the award for “Most Fun Craft Book” of the year. If you’ve seen Jennifer Perkins‘ work, and chances are that you have, then you’ll be prepared for the vibrant, brash, and funny style of The Naughty Secretary Club Book.

It’s divided into three sections: A Case of the Mondays, Hump Day, and [...]

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How to Make a Cool Button Pendant

May 19, 2008

Here’s what we made at Church of Craft yesterday: Button Pendants. They use good old plastic canvas as their base, which means they can easily be converted to pins.

Speaking of which, Susan has two great button projects in Bead Simple that using those plastic canvas rounds. (That’s Page 147 and 213, for you book [...]

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Beads and Buttons

May 2, 2008

Okay, beads first: I wanted to let you know that Susan has been adding how-tos to her Bead Simple website. You can see two video tutorials there – one for making a Solo Earring, and the other for making the necklace from the cover of the Bead Simple book.

While you’re there, you can also download [...]

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Say Hello to Laura, everybody…

March 29, 2008

I stopped by the Bead Expo this afternoon to visit my friend Laura. She’s there with her gorgeous fused glass pendants.

Laura has had a jewelry business for years, but last year, she had a creative epiphany. She went to work for a local glass company and discovered the wonders of fusing glass. She got deeply [...]

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Mmmmm . . . Bead Expo

March 28, 2008

Interweave’s Bead Expo is happening in Portland through Sunday, and it’s a great time for those of us who love the sparkly stuff.

There are so many booths that resemble this one – literally piles and piles of beads, and hanks and hanks hanging on walls, and tubes and tubes in racks. The explosion of [...]

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How to Crochet a Wire Flower Pendant

February 16, 2008

Here’s something I’ve been noodling around with lately – crocheting flowers in wire. Once you get started on the whole wire crochet thing, the challenge becomes really compelling.

With some practice, you can convert many different crochet flower patterns into wire. It’s stiffer stuff, obviously, so you may want to keep to the simpler patterns. But [...]

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Vintage Style Jewelry

January 28, 2008

Here’s something you might want to check out at your newsstand – this Bead & Button special ish, Vintage Style Jewelry.

The concept is fun – lots of jewelry projects, each one based on a vintage piece and re-interpreted slightly. The designs cover eras from Victorian to the 1950’s. A nice variety, too – some bead [...]

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Something to look forward to!

November 2, 2007

Susan Beal, an uber-talented maker and a dear friend, has just announced her new book, Bead Simple. I’m super excited about this one! Susan has such a great eye for jewelry — her designs manage to feel both modern and vintage at once. And her construction methods are ingenious. (And I love, love, love this [...]

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Kind of a half-baked idea, but still…

October 22, 2007

I’ve been fascinated with those recycled magazine bowls for a while now. And I saw a little Japanese craft book recently (No ISBN, sorry) that even had magazine pages woven into baskets. What a great resource — old magazine pages!

Then, Patricia put up this excellent tutorial for making the bowls. Looking at that, I started [...]

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Review: Crochet Jewelry: 40 Beautiful and Unique Designs

October 3, 2007

I’m really digging Crochet Jewelry, by Waejong Kim and Anna Pulvermakher. A nice combination of two of my favorite subjects.

The two authors are co-owners of Loopy Mango in Brooklyn, a boutique that carries handmade clothes and jewelry, and yes, plenty of crochet. They worked with a number of designers on the projects in this [...]

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How to Make a Washer & Yarn Pendant

September 6, 2007

I was rooting around in my “projects under consideration” box this morning, and found these pendants I made a while back. They use ordinary hardware store washers and leftover worsted-weight yarn, and they’re easy to make. I think they’d look cute with cool-weather clothes.

You start with a washer — I’m using a 7/16″ one here, [...]

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I used to drink out of my bracelet.

May 8, 2007

Tiffany Threadgould wrote the greatest article for CRAFT 03 about turning plastic soda bottles into all kinds of useful things. I especially loved her Photo Cuff bracelets.
Ever since that article, I’ve been eyeing the plastic bottles in my recycle bin, and last night, lightning struck. Here’s my bottle-bracelet variation, using felt!
A 16-oz (500 ml) water [...]

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Further down the spool-knitting rabbit hole….

March 21, 2007

After waxing rhapsodic about spool-knitting recently, I got a nice email from Heather, who shared these photos of spool-knit necklaces . . . WITH BEADS! Holy Moly!
According to Heather, “Most of these necklaces were made in the 20’s and 30’s (think flappers). The top most one is made of Carnival Glass beads, and the [...]

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The Coiling Gizmo

February 7, 2007

My friend Heidi first introduced me to this funny tool about five years ago. I don’t use it often, but every time I do, I think, “I gotta break this puppy out more!”

The Coiling Gizmo, as its name suggests, is a simple device for making perfect coils of thin wire, which in turn make cool [...]

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Crochet with Wire & Beads

January 18, 2007

I’ve had so many requests for the instructions for our last Church of Craft project, I decided to post a little tutorial here. I am by no means an expert, though! You can also find great info here.
But let’s get started . . . . First, you need supplies:
- One spool of 28 gauge [...]

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Cool stuff from my Sampler…

December 29, 2006

I love The Sampler! I know you do, too. Here are some things from the December edition that had me giggling and clapping my hands:

A tasty fused glass ring, by Amy Burhoe Designs. Her website is full of beautiful things.

Some Grapefruit and Ho Wood Balm from Scrub your Butt Soap Co. (I never get tired [...]

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CraftyPod #33: All About Buttons

August 25, 2006

Welcome to the CraftyPod, a podcast all about making stuff.
Click the “Play” button at the bottom of this post to listen!
In this show:
- All About Buttons – .
- A glimpse into the fascinating history of buttons.
- Some fun ways to make buttons of your very own.
- A number of things to make [...]

 
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CraftyPod #30: Crafts Go On Summer Vacation

July 14, 2006

Welcome to the CraftyPod, a podcast all about making stuff.
Click the “Play” button at the bottom of this post to listen!
In this show:
- Crafts go on their summer vacation!
- Two tutorials for crafty travel gear.
- Ideas for interesting projects you can take with you.
- Thoughts on ways to add more craft to your journey.
Travel-Crafty Links:
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CraftyPod #9: Making Stuff & Reaching Out

September 16, 2005

Welcome to the CraftyPod, a podcast all about making stuff.
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In this show:
- A giddy appreciation for microscope slides.
- A craft project: a basic microscope-slide framed picture.
- A bunch of other slide ideas.
- My kudos to the crafty community for their response to Hurricane Katrina
- [...]

 
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CraftyPod #1: Hello World!

May 27, 2005

Here ’tis… the very first CraftyPod show ever. I had some technical issues with it, and it’s been lost for a while, but finally, it’s recovered. I no longer have the original show notes, though – sorry!

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