Make Your Own Wirework Findings

Class Description

Take your passion for making jewelry to the next level by learning to create your own beautiful, custom wirework bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Award-winning artist Lisa Niven Kelly will entertain and encourage as she walks you through forming a wide variety of findings. You’ll learn to perfect the basic loop and then build on that to create hooks, clasps and toggles that can serve as a stunning focal point for a piece. She will show you how to make coils, spirals, flowers and more to add interest and intricacy to your jewelry designs. You will learn to work in a variety of gauges and metals. Lisa shares her passion for design and will give you the confidence to design and construct your own metal masterpieces.

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What You’ll Learn

• To make perfect loops, the foundation for creating your own wirework findings
• To coil, bend and hammer wire to add architectural interest to your designs
• To secure and connect beads or loops to make a chain
• To create sturdy and beautiful head pins and ear wires
• To create clasps and toggles that can secure your creations and even become the show-stopping element of your piece

What You’ll Make

• Turn a length of wire into beautiful wirework findings – head pins, ear wires, loops, toggles, clasps and more – that can be used to create one-of-a-kind bracelets, necklaces and earrings

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