Bead Soup: Jewelry-Making Fun with Sara L

Learn to use beads, findings, and jewelry making tools to make a beautiful coordinating necklace, memory wire bracelet and earrings set.

Participants will…

·      Choose stone and/or glass beads according to a color scheme

·      Use spacer and/or accent beads

·      Select the correct beading wire

·      Select findings as desired

·      Correctly use crimping pliers and crimp beads or tubes

·      Select and correctly open and close jump rings

·      Use chain nose, flat nose, bent nose, round nose pliers and jewelry wire cutters

·      Use memory wire and memory wire cutters and pliers

·      Head pin vs eye pin

·      Make a wrapped wire loop

·      Attach a clasp

·      Use extension chain if desired

·      Make decorative drops for earring or accent

·      Attach ear wire/finding