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January 13, 2010

An Artists Dream: Free Jewelry Making Patterns

Jewelry makers are a passionate sort of people.  They enjoy their craft so much that they are eager to share their ideas and tips with everyone for free.  As such, there are free jewelry making patterns all over the internet for almost any style of project, including free wire jewelry making.  Wire is the internal structure behind almost all types of earrings, necklaces and bracelets, adding to their strength and durability.  Wire is also easy to work with, giving malleability that enables all sorts of shapes and patterns to be achieved and held for long periods of time.

Types of Patterns

There are many different free jewelry making patterns on the market, which allows the individual to pick the one that best fits her tastes or the tastes of her clients and friends.  There are different types of earring patterns, such as that for crystal cube earrings which have two strands that dangle below whatever color and shape the main crystal is at the top of the earring.  Other crystals hang at the bottom of the strands, giving a fun and sassy look to the earrings.

There are some other post earrings that can be found in free jewelry making patterns that are not the type that dangle beneath the ear.  Instead, these earrings have a central ’stone’ or bead, with smaller colored beads that are threaded around it, giving the end appearance the shape of a flower in whatever colored beads were chosen.

There are beautiful free jewelry making patterns for brooches on the market today.  Brooches usually have a base metal that includes the pin that holds the brooch to clothing as well as the general shape of the brooch.  The beadwork goes on top of the brooch and is what gives the brooch its color and character, giving the jewelry making plenty of options to express their creativity in the brooch.

In addition to brooches and earrings, the most common free jewelry making patterns are for necklaces and bracelets. These are the best starting places for beginners since single strand beaded necklaces and bracelets are very simple, only requiring the pattern of beads be added to the strand and then the appropriate clasp be chosen and attached to the wire in order to secure it.  This gives the beginner practice using the basic beading tools, such as the crimper, which takes a little while for the beginner to get used to using.  Once the single strand is mastered, then the beginner can move on to other free jewelry making patterns in necklaces and bracelets such as the beaded chain bracelet, which has a pattern of waved beads within a ‘railroad’ like bracelet form.

January 10, 2010

Whatever the Project, There is Free Jewelry Making Instruction

In the jewelry making world, there are passionate people who love to share their advice and tips online so that beginning jewelry makers can get started and more advanced artists can share ideas with each other.  There are free jewelry making instructions as well as free jewelry making patterns available for almost any type of project that one might consider embarking upon.

Wire and Beads

Free jewelry making instructions encompasses a wide variety of jewelry that works with different types of metals, wire and beads.  There are free jewelry making instructions on how to make stamped earrings, in which the jeweler has to punch holes into the metal in different patterns to make the design before attaching the main piece to the earring post or hook.

There are simple free jewelry making instructions for making beaded necklaces and bracelets, where only a simple wire and different types of beads are needed, according to the colors and pattern desired.  There are more complex instructions for beading that require the use of a bead loom in order to create a more complicated pattern of beads on the necklace or bracelet.

There are also patterns for simple beaded earrings, such as dangling earrings that only have one strand.  When the dangling earrings have more than one strand or are linked in a pattern, then the free jewelry making instructions become more complex to follow.  In addition, there are earring posts on which there can be a beaded flower or other pattern created on it, which is also more complex than a single strand dangling earring.

Free jewelry making instructions also contain recommendations as to what types of materials and projects should be embarked upon by beginners so that they do not get frustrated with their first attempt and give up what can be a very rewarding hobby and possibly a business.  There are jewelry making kits that already have all of the supplies that a beginner needs to get started.  If the beginner wants to branch out on their own from the beginning, free jewelry making sites can give them ideas on what types of wire and beads to buy, as well as tools such as crimpers and bead looms.

Free jewelry making instructions also give some tips to save time in jewelry making, which can be a tedious process where one drop of a strand of the beaded necklace means hours of work lost and beads all over the floor.  These tips teach the beginner how to avoid such catastrophes so that the entire process goes more quickly and common accidents can be avoided.

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