Today, I thought I would post a quick tutorial on how to make another useful jewellery finding! Below are step by step instructions on how to make jump rings (or split rings). What’s a jump ring again? A jump ring is a little coil of wire used in jewellery making, which can be pulled apart […]
How To Make A Charm Bracelet
It’s been snowing so much recently even though it’s meant to be Spring, so I felt like making something bright and white! This is a free tutorial for how to make a charm bracelet. I’ve made beaded charms here, but you can use whatever jewellery components you like: kitsch; steampunk, gemstones; precious metals; whatever you […]
Beading Book Review: Metallic Seed Bead Splendor by Nancy Zellers
It’s here at last! Yippee! I absolutely couldn’t wait to get hold of this beading book – Metallic Seed Bead Splendor – by Nancy Zellers as I will be using it to guide me through the Bead Along project with Off the Beaded Path! This is the first time that I’ve been involved in a Bead Along […]
How To Make A Felt Heart
After I made my felt beads the other day, I had a little bit of purple wool top fibres leftover. Hmmm, what to make?! I decided to attempt this 3D felt heart – I’m quite into decorative hearts and have a good few of them hanging around in different places throughout my home! Anyway, I followed […]
How To Make Felt Beads
Making felt beads is really fun and relatively easy. Felting is the process of turning wool into a dense hard fabric (felt) and these felt beads are made using a wet felting technique. Below is a quick step by step tutorial about how to make them! You’ll need the following: Merino dyed wool tops – mixed […]
