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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: French Ear Wires
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Monday, January 21, 2013. FREE Tutorial: French Ear Wires. In this free tutorial, I'd like to show you how to make sophisticated French-style ear wires with spirals as pictured above. Start with two bead dangles on head pins (click here. Bend the wires over and to the right:. Continue bending the wires until they are wrapped one complete rotation around the bottom jaw of the small round-nose pliers; again, note that the wires are wrapped around to the right:. Use chain-nose pliers to grasp the short, wra...
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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: Coiling Wire for Jewelry
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Saturday, January 12, 2013. FREE Tutorial: Coiling Wire for Jewelry. Wire coils are an essential wire-jewelry component that every metalsmith and jewelry artist ought to master. Making coils of wire that are evenly wrapped with no gaps and no overlaps is your goal. All it takes is practice to master this important skill. Start with two pieces of scrap wire, cleaned. Bend the finer gauge wire in half to prepare it for wrapping onto the thicker wire:. Coiling wire can be very hard on your hands, especially...
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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: Copper Cone Earrings!
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Saturday, August 16, 2014. FREE Tutorial: Copper Cone Earrings! Jumbo-sized tapered round mandrel pliers are perfect for creating a cool pair of copper-wire cone earrings! I used 12-gauge half. Wire flush-cutters suitable for cutting up to 12-gauge wire. Wubbers jumbo tapered round mandrel pliers. Wubbers classic chain-nose pliers. Wubbers baby round-nose pliers. Ruler and/or measuring tape. 12-gauge half-round copper wire: approximately 60 inches. 16-gauge round copper wire: approximately 4-1/2 inches.
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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: Enameling Balled Headpins
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013. FREE Tutorial: Enameling Balled Headpins. I personally find it easiest to use a map-gas torch with canisters of map gas from the hardware store, but if you’re already set up for torch firing enamels and glass beads with another type of torch, you can use that. Just don’t use butane! The first step is to ball up your headpins using the method described here. You will have to straighten each headpin by hand, too, because they come out of the tumbler all kinky. But, this ted...
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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: Balled Headpins for Jewelry
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Thursday, January 17, 2013. FREE Tutorial: Balled Headpins for Jewelry. A headpin is a length of wire with something on one end that acts as a stopper, preventing beads or pearls placed on the wire from slipping off. There are many ways to create beautiful decorative headpins starting with plain wire, and of course there are many retailers offering a wide variety of headpins in different gauges, lengths, and styles. And it’s very easy to make such things yourself. I always flush-cut one wire end. The amo...
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Sharilyn Miller: Jewelry From Our October Retreat
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Monday, October 13, 2014. Jewelry From Our October Retreat. LOTS to talk about in this post! My Wild Wire Women retreat. October 9-13) went extremely well, and that's because I had such lovely and talented students attending this past weekend. Pictured from left (above): Lisa, Joan, Donna, Amrita, and Mona. They're standing behind my "teacher's chair" on the first workshop day of the retreat (last Friday), looking fresh and happy and excited about the next three days to come! Joan's foldformed copper cuff.
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Phydeaux’s web shop. Phydeaux’s etsy shop. Phydeaux Designs & Fiber. Hand dyed yarn: old world elegance for modern knitters. November 23, 2010. Unraveled Yarn & Gifts. Birmingham, AL { COMING SOON}. Bonnie’s Yarn Crafts. A Yarn Less Raveled. Burbank, CA { NEW }. Ben Franklin Crafts and Frames. Grass Valley, CA { COMING SOON }. Elk Grove, CA. Los Altos, CA. EWE and me … a yarn boutique LLC. Colorado Springs, CO. New Haven, CT. Knitwits Contemporary Yarn Shop. Crescent Springs, KY. Wool Winders Yarn Shop.
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where to buy
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Phydeaux’s web shop. Phydeaux’s etsy shop. Phydeaux Designs & Fiber. Hand dyed yarn: old world elegance for modern knitters. November 23, 2010. Unraveled Yarn & Gifts. Birmingham, AL { COMING SOON}. Bonnie’s Yarn Crafts. A Yarn Less Raveled. Burbank, CA { NEW }. Ben Franklin Crafts and Frames. Grass Valley, CA { COMING SOON }. Elk Grove, CA. Los Altos, CA. EWE and me … a yarn boutique LLC. Colorado Springs, CO. New Haven, CT. Knitwits Contemporary Yarn Shop. Crescent Springs, KY. Wool Winders Yarn Shop.
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Retailers | Kira K Designs
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Scarves, Cowls, & Shawls. Gloves & Mittens. These retailers stock Kira K Designs patterns. If you are looking for a particular pattern, please call ahead. 650 W 4th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501. 907-278-3522. 140 Adams St, Cordova, AK 99574. 907-424-7337. 8660 E Shea Blvd, Scotsdale, AZ 85260. 480-515-4454. Ball and Skein and More. 4210 Bridge Street, Cambria, CA 93428. 805-927-3280. 2406 San Pablo Avenue, Pinole, CA 94564. Bluebird Yarn and Fiber Crafts. 323-889-4281 (mail order only). A Yarn Less Raveled.
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Sharilyn Miller: FREE Tutorial: Jumbo Rosette Bracelet
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014. FREE Tutorial: Jumbo Rosette Bracelet. Making linked wire “rosettes” with intertwined jump rings is nothing new. But have you considered making big, jumbo-sized jump rings using 12-gauge wire? Wire flush-cutters suitable for cutting up to 12-gauge wire. Wubbers jumbo tapered round mandrel pliers. Wubbers classic chain-nose pliers. Wubbers classic flat-nose pliers. Wubbers large round bail making pliers. Ruler and/or measuring tape. Hard-plastic or rawhide mallet. Place one wire ...
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