Karman
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Ever since I restrung my rope, I got hooked on jewelry making and decided to delve into wire wrapping.
I have been buying loose pearls on Etsy and craft supplies from Michael's (for practice, I would like to invest in better quality wire and supplies once I've confirmed I'm not disastrous at jewelry making) and yesterday decided to finally do something with what I've gotten.
So what have I learned so far?
1) Everything looks bigger on the internet. I ordered 6 mm amethyst rondelles and they were much smaller than expected. Yes they were 6 mm, but that's looking at the rondelle from the face and not the side. I expected them to be comparable to 6 mm pearls but that wasn't the case--oops.
2) Wire wrapping is much harder than it looks. I watched multiple videos and bought a beading book and thought "how hard can it be?" Well, when those dang loops are so tiny, it's easy to mess them up.
3) I get serious creative road blocks when it comes to trying to think of pretty creative designs. Everything I want to make resembles some sort of tin cup (but I LOVE tin cups)
I had intended to wrap some lustrous 15 mm UFO shaped pearls from Wen on Etsy yesterday and assemble it together with a gemstone order also from Etsy to make a mixed/random tin cup rope. But, per #1 the gems I ordered turned out too small so I'll be saving them for other projects.
I ended up making some bead links with some 6 mm freshwater pearls I had leftover from my restringing project, and made a couple of necklaces. I've always wanted dainty pearl necklaces like these, but could never justify spending the money to buy them when I saw them (especially since they were frequently made with glass pearls)
You can see two of the little amethyst rondelles in the middle. I was going to use them in between pearls but decided to save them for something else. This is next to 6 mm pearls soooo they would get completely lost if placed with 15 mm pearls.
And here it is on the neck. The 5-pearl one is in the mail on its way to a friend
I have been buying loose pearls on Etsy and craft supplies from Michael's (for practice, I would like to invest in better quality wire and supplies once I've confirmed I'm not disastrous at jewelry making) and yesterday decided to finally do something with what I've gotten.
So what have I learned so far?
1) Everything looks bigger on the internet. I ordered 6 mm amethyst rondelles and they were much smaller than expected. Yes they were 6 mm, but that's looking at the rondelle from the face and not the side. I expected them to be comparable to 6 mm pearls but that wasn't the case--oops.
2) Wire wrapping is much harder than it looks. I watched multiple videos and bought a beading book and thought "how hard can it be?" Well, when those dang loops are so tiny, it's easy to mess them up.
3) I get serious creative road blocks when it comes to trying to think of pretty creative designs. Everything I want to make resembles some sort of tin cup (but I LOVE tin cups)
I had intended to wrap some lustrous 15 mm UFO shaped pearls from Wen on Etsy yesterday and assemble it together with a gemstone order also from Etsy to make a mixed/random tin cup rope. But, per #1 the gems I ordered turned out too small so I'll be saving them for other projects.
I ended up making some bead links with some 6 mm freshwater pearls I had leftover from my restringing project, and made a couple of necklaces. I've always wanted dainty pearl necklaces like these, but could never justify spending the money to buy them when I saw them (especially since they were frequently made with glass pearls)
You can see two of the little amethyst rondelles in the middle. I was going to use them in between pearls but decided to save them for something else. This is next to 6 mm pearls soooo they would get completely lost if placed with 15 mm pearls.
And here it is on the neck. The 5-pearl one is in the mail on its way to a friend
