Turquoise Chips Bracelet

   I found these dainty turquoise chips in my mother's jewel box. My dad had specially bought it for her. He had a keen interest in gemstones and his collection includes rivolis in exquisite colours . I would love to try the beaded bezel setting on them.

                                                 

I decided to make a bracelet out of the turquoise chips and pearls something similar to a charm bracelet. I put a combination of turquoise chips and pearls on the head pins. Looped the head pins leaving some space from the beads so to get a nice dangling effect and connected it to a silver coloured chain. I didn't add the clasp right  at the end so a small length of chain hangs even on wearing the bracelet which gave it a pretty effect.

                                                

Finished product :-)

                                               

Spiral Rope Stitch

    Now I know why they charge so much for a bead weave necklace. I have been doing a spiral rope stitch  for the beaded bezel pendant, its been three days and Iam not even half way through. There is this nice tutorial by Beadaholique (I guess Iam their biggest fan :-). Its quite simple just time consuming.

While I was doing it I got an another idea of making earrings by looping the spiral rope just like those hoop ones. I could start on it when I finish this chain....phew :-(

Beaded Bezel

          I found a marble piece when i was putting away my daughter's toys. It just so happened that it looks like a cabochon. My initial trials of beaded bezel, all ended up being flat and it needs to be tubular so that the cabochon can be laid inside. Then I found this nice tutorial by Beadaholique on How to Weave a Basic Beaded Bezel. It still took me two days to finish it.

The basics technique followed is a peyote stitch. The first thing to do is to string the correct numbers beads to cover the cabochon and then make a loop. Then start the peyote stitch and continue till you have your desired pattern. And to get that tubular effect so that cabochon sits inside is to use  two different sizes of beads.

Now I planning to learn spiral rope stitch to make the chain for this pendant.

Simple Wired Earrings

These are the few simple earrings I did using head pins. I only tried the simple looping of the head pin.

Wire wrapping is another vast jewellery technique. I need to find some good quality silver coloured 24 gauge half hard wire to try few of them. There are so many varieties to choose from. The gauge measures the diameter of the wire. The lower the gauge, the thicker the wire. Then there is the wire hardness; dead soft, half-hard and full hard.

Special Thanks to Aleshia

                  I first started making beaded jewellery watching Aleshia's tutorials on youtube. Her tutorial videos are wonderful and she explains it so elaborately. 

I made these watching her tutorials.

And thanks to my aunt who gave me her spare jewellery tools and findings. Her blog is very informative for learning wired jewellery.