Tutorial: Calypso Wire Spiral Earrings

Today, I wanted to share another FREE jewelry tutorial that I found online.  This one is by Beadaholic and it is called "Calypso Wire Spiral Earrings." These earrings are a great beginning project for anyone wanting to learn some basic wire wrapping skills, and end up with a beautiful finished project when they are done.

Wire Wrapped and Beaded Ring Tutorial

I love wire wrapped jewelry. I found this tutorial on YouTube and thought I would share. It is by Rachel's Jewellery Tutorials on YouTube.   Rachel makes creating your own ring so easy. She has great visuals, and she gives you a list of all the materials you will need to have success making your own beautiful wire wrapped ring. Hope you enjoy!

Wire Wrapped and Beaded Pendant

I love wire wrap jewelry. And I also like sharing FREE TUTORIALS when I find a good one online. This tutorial is by the jewelry artisan, Dev Khan, from Santa Rosa CA.

Dev cuts and polishes her own stones, as well as beautifully wraps them.

I found this tutorial on the website Make Craft.  Here is the link for Dev's tutorial for wrapping a beautiful pendant like the example below. 

Photo by Sara K. Woll

FREE Tutorial Rolo Chain and Leather Bracelet

This is a bracelet tutorial I really like. I am thinking my husband may need a bracelet like this. All the supplies are available at Primitive Earth Beads Chains and Leather. I have links on the bottom of this tutorial (they may or may not work-sorry.) And the You Video intstructions are further down on the page.  Hope you enjoy.

Photo credit: From The Beading Gem's Journal

Rollo Chain and Leather Bracelet  From Primitive Earth Beads, Chains and Leather The materials needed to make this style of bracelet are: 2 feet of rollo chain 2 yards of leather (the size of the leather will be determined by the size of the Rollo chain) Cut the chain into three equal lengths, generally 7 to 7.5 inches long depending on the desired bracelet size, (you will want an uneven number of links on each piece of chain). If you purchased more chain, you can make as many sections as you want. Lay the three lengths of chain parallel (I use a mandrel or heavy piece of wire so that I can see they are even and the same length.) Find the center of your leather cord. Weave one end of the leather through the first link of each section, until you reach the half way point. Now pick up one end of the leather and run it through the third link this link will be laying in the same direction as the first one. You will now have both pieces of leather on the same side of your bracelet. Turn the bracelet over. Now take the top piece of leather and run it through the same set of links as the bottom piece of leather. Continue in this manner until you reach the end. Keep the tension even as you weave the bracelet; make sure the links continue to lie parallel to each other. Now you are ready to run the leather cords through the first set of links, back to where you started. You will have three strands of leather going through this set of links. Be sure to allow enough length of your leather ends to take the bracelet on and off. You can add beads to the ends or tie an overhand knot to keep the leather ends from pulling out as you take the bracelet on and off. Enjoy your bracelet and the many compliments you will receive!! Here are the items needed  to make the rolo chain bracelet: 6-8 inches of chain CH-50 (7.0MM) 5 feet rubber tubing or  5 feet Greek leather cord 2mm large hole bead
Links to the categories of the items listed above:
CH-50 (7.0MM)	rubber tubing	Greek leather	large hole bead

Fun FREE Bracelet Tutorial

Now these are some bracelets I really like.  I can see them done in fall colors, as well as these pretty colors.  I just love the combination of the macrame and metal.

This FREE bracelet tutorial comes from "Honestly...WTF."  And it is called DIY Macrame Bracelet.

Chainmail Earrings Tutorial

I found another cool jewelry tutorial, this one by Marilyn Gardiner, called Mobius Flowers.  This is being called a beginning level chainmail project.  I think this tutorial makes a really pretty pair of earrings. And you can make these in silver, gold, copper or some other pretty, colored jump rings to add additional interest.  

To begin, Marilyn is describe the wire used and the jump rings. Here goes...

Wire

"First, the wire used to make the jump rings comes in different "tempers", from dead soft, through half-hard, to hard. I like to use half-hard wire because it gets harder as it is coiled and made into rings, and it gets harder still as the rings are tumbled to clean and polish them. My goal is to have rings that won't pull open."

Wire comes in different thicknesses—or diameter.   The wire for this project measures 1.0 mm in diameter.

Chainmail Weaves

This Japanese 6 in 1 chainmail pattern has its roots in Japanese armour from the middle ages. The Japanese weaves look best with small rings for the vertical connector rings and large rings for the horizontal rings. Both rings can be doubled up, as in this project, for a tight, stable weave.

Step 1 Close one large ring and open 5 large rings. Open 4 small rings. Insert a large ring through the closed large ring and close it. Slide the 2 rings together so the top of ring #2 lies behind ring #1. Keep holding...
Step 2 Put ring #3 through the centre of the first 2 rings, close it, & slide it sideways so the top of ring #3 lies behind ring #2. If you MUST set the cluster down, do it carefully so the order of the rings stays the same. I have been known to drop it on the floor, and I've found that it's faster to start the cluster over from scratch than try to put the rings back in the right order.

Step 3 Put ring #4 through the centre of the first 3 rings, close it, and slide it sideways so the top of ring #4 lies behind ring #3.
Step 4 Follow this pattern to add rings #5 and 6. This completes one mobius ball or flower.

Step 5 Insert a small ring through the centre of the mobius ball. and close it. (Now the cluster is secure & the rings are locked into position!!!) Add a second small ring. Step 6 Insert 2 small rings into the previous small rings. This is the partial segment for one earring. Repeat Steps 1 to 6 to make another segment for the second earring.

Step 7

Now it's time to join the two segments to the earring findings.
Carefully open the loop on an earring finding. (Remember to use 2 pairs of pliers and open it the same way you would open a jump ring.) Slide the open loop around the two top rings and then gently close it.
Finish the second earring the same way.

by Marilyn Gardiner www.MarilynGardiner.com Hope you enjoy!