Transcripts
1. Course Introduction: Hello everyone. My name is Sharon and
I like to welcome you to my course,
jewelry for beginners. In this course, I'll be making
three pieces of jewelry. One pair of earrings, necklace, and a bracelet. You will be able to make these
by the end of the course. There are a few tools that you will need
to get beforehand, which I will be listing
in the following videos. This course is aimed at
beginners, as I said, and it will help you to build some confidence in taking that first step to
making jewelry. If you've always had an
interest in making it. This is the course that
will hopefully help you move forward
in your interests. And perhaps this could be
due to other opportunities, which it has done for me. I have gone on to create my
own Etsy shop and sold these, the jewelry that
I make worldwide. And this has been
a passion of mine since I discovered
jewelry. In 2012.
2. Setting Up a Workspace: In this lesson, we are
going to talk about how to set up your
jewelry work area. When first starting
enjoy making, you can use an existing
desk or table or bench in any spare room
or corner of your house. This is absolutely fine. Choose a space that
has good lighting, as you will be working with very small beads and components. So you will need to see
clearly what you're doing and use daylight
as much as possible. Ideally, the best position
is next to a window. Also have a lamp next to you. If the room has poor
natural lighting off when you are working
on new jewelry in the evenings and winter months. Another thing that is
important is the ergonomics, where the child
will be sitting on, should support your back and you're able to move
around freely. Dedicating a space
for your jewelry, making an a set time for
yourself to practice can help enormously in getting you into the flow of
what you are doing. It says ideally best to find
an area in your home where you are least likely to get distracted for an hour or two. When it comes to your work area, be shorted, deploy to your
workspace before you start. And that will really
help you when you come to putting all
your pieces together. It is recommended that
you have a set of drawers near your workspace to
hold all your bead boxes, pliers, enjoy making equipment. Keep everything in one place
so that you know where to find everything when you next come back to the jewelry making, these can be purchased inexpensively from your
local hobby craft. Herman DIY stores,
etsy, Amazon, and eBay.
3. Tools & Materials: The materials we're going
to need, pens, jump rings. Plus for your neck
close and bracelets. Hawks, silver or gold chain. Silver craft wire. This one's at 22 gauge. Small beads. Then a big box with your various beads that you want to
use in your design.
4. Part 1 - Making Crystal Dangle Earrings : Okay, so we're going
to need ten of these crystal back home beads, which are 4 mm and they
have an AV finished. And we're going to
need to like beads. 6 mm. We're going to need
two silver jump rings, and they are just standard 4 mm. The silver wire is for making the head pin to threat
the beads through. And then you're going to need this cable chain,
which is silver, basic standard cable chain
that you can get it from any jewelry supplier
online or in the shops. If you have a bead
shop near you, you can just go in and ask for small real silver cable train. And I'm going to need my tools, my basic round nose
pliers, cutters, my flat nose pliers,
and a ruler, which will help me measure
that chain at the end, you will need to six
centimeter head pins, making the head
pin, you had pin. And then put your
flat nose flyer about centimeter down
around those pliers. Then this end around
that around those playa. So it looks like this. Then you flat nose pliers
around those playa. Hold them. Hold the head can read
around those plot, and then we flatten those prior, pull that tail around, making sure that it goes as close to the
head pin as we can. Then cut off any excess
sticking out in this case, I would just squeeze it in. Okay. Do the same on all
your bees through the head pant and close
the head pin like this previous 1 s one done. Now. Now we're going to
attach these onto the bottom of the crystals to
form the dangle. Taking your silver
craft wire again, cut a small piece off
to form the loop bead. I'm going to cut this
much or not enough. Just measured about 3 cm. 3 cm. Then, due to lease on the
other side, make a loop. The previous warmer blue again. And this time, I don't think
I need to twist it around. I'm just going to
make a little loop. There. This one is not going to have a longer tail wrapping around as
I want to keep it. Pretty simple. I will close that gap just to secure it and
then put the bead through notes that are not fully closing the loop until I've
attached the crystal bar. I can the crystal please. Let me put it through. This time around 6.5 cm. Train. Taking the chain, attach
this to the jump ring. Then touch jump ring. Like so. Close. Don't bring Omaha. Open the box. Now at your bead on the chain and close the
loop on the ear and hawk.
5. Part 2 - Making Crystal Beaded Bracelet: Okay, so we've got the
chain, breaks it out. The amount that we need
to allow for the pendant, which is about 3 cm. 3 cm when you come to make your bracelet change
around your wrist. And then that's where
I find appropriate to cut as close to your
list as possible, but allowing for a little
wiggle room underneath. So I'll measure that
bit out and out and that is something
centimeters. Now I'm not going
to cut at 17 cm because I've got to account
for this speed here, which will sit in the
middle of the bracelet. So I'm going to type 17
cm and subtract 3 cm, just how much that is. So I'll cut at 14 cm. I think is appropriate
for making a good fit. 14 cm. Then at 14 cm on how to cook. Halfway between that. So that's 7 cm. That's where I will pop that pendant bar
when I make that. So now I have two pieces. Next, I'm going to
take the head pin. This one's about an inch long. And I'm going to
thread this through. I'm going to take
two small beads. Leads are about 3 mm long. I'm going to put two in first. And then put my feature
being polite bead, middle, and then finish
with two further beads. Can be quiet for
labor just with it. And the more like beads. Now close to the top part which finishes the
dependent box. I'm just going to check. This way. I'll get my flat
nose pliers 90 degrees, pull it down, and then using
the round nose pliers. Looping over that, you've
got another leap to close. Okay, So now what
we've done that part, we're going to take one
piece of the chain. And I don't mean like
a three millimeter, don't mean I'm going
to put that through. We're going to take one
piece of the chain. Then take your bead and put
that through the jump ring. Now close the jump ring
with a flat nose pliers. With the other side.
From the jump rating. Would it through
the pandemic bead, the chain that through? Because the jump ring.
Then you've done the final part is to add the class and
the end jump ring. So we're going to take another
smaller jump ring, 3 mm. That's really then take
the bigger jump ring. One's a six
millimeter onto that. Jump me. Close
this, don't worry. Okay. So this makes the end
where you fasten it on. Then we're going to put the PR, loves the class for now. Again, take a small jump ring attached. Okay, so we've put this
form to the chain. Then get loves to class. On. Close the door. Is it together now? You have a bracelet. On the bracelet, I would
put a paperclip on the end, just acting as a weight so that when you
try to put it on, it won't slip off that through. Because C acts as a paperweight. You can easily
listen to the class.
6. Part 3 - Making Crystal Charm Necklace: To make our place, we're going to need 18 or 16 ". So we're trying to do 60. Here. I'm I didn't jump rings to the crystal charms. So we're gonna jump rings
on the crystal pendants. Abby, take a jump ring, the end towards you. Crystal. And now a little pin. Once you've done that
and you lay them out the way you want
it on the next place. We're gonna go ahead
and add actually train divided on
cutting the chain. The chain at 8 ", 6 ", 4 " attached jump
rings while the germs touching the jump rings
to the night clays. Next we'll touch the charm
bees to the next place. The final step is to
add, loves the class.
7. Part 4 - Student Class Project: In this next class, you will be given
a chance to make two or three pieces of jewelry. It can be one pair
of earrings on a bracelet or bracelet
and the neck place. Or all three. I would like you to either recreate the designs
I have shown you in the previous classes or use beads of your
own combination. And once you have
completed your pieces, upload them to the
student, Valerie. I look forward to seeing
your finished creations.
8. Completion : So by now you would have
made your pieces of jewelry using the tools and materials listed in the project resources. In the jewelry techniques
that I've demonstrated, we learn how to make
a pair of earrings, making head pins, and
adding the bees and chain to form the
dangles, the bracelet. We learned how to
measure and cut the chain to fit your
wrist and attach breeze jump rings and the
clasp. All in that place. We learn how to
assemble the nightclub with sections of
chain and jump rings. We learn how to add the
class, open the clothes, the jump rings and attached crystal beads
to the nightclubs. Congratulations, I
hope you were able to find encouragement
in doing this course. And I hope that you go
on to make more jewelry. And let me know if you do make anything and you've
uploaded them onto Instagram, please tag me. Thank you for joining
my class and I look forward to seeing you
in my next tutorial.
Sharon Lee, Teaching Jewellery Making
