Jewelry Making Class

Now that I finished the big Christmas bag order I decided to take a break from sewing and take a class on jewelry-making at the Stitch Lab here in Austin.

In this class, I was supposed to learn easy techniques to make stunning chandeliers, dangles, hoops - just about any style of earrings I'd like to make. I can also make strung beaded bracelets with a variety of clasp options, memory wire bracelets or elastic cord bracelets.

I'd love to learn to make earrings, bracelets, charms and zipper pulls!

Here are the tools I used:

Here are the earrings I made:

In class I decided to focus on earrings since I've been thinking of my Pandora earrings that I rarely wear... my goal is to make pendants that I can attach to my hoop earrings:

  

These are the Pandora pendants that I have that I add to the earrings: