Stage Three: Netted Bezel Pendant and new jewelry making Tutorial

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New Tutorial: Needle Lace Caged Pendant

I have enjoyed this technique so much I’ve decided to share it. It’s been very inspirational and if you’re ready to try something different I am sure you will have as much fun with this technique as I have!
This tutorial is 11 pages with a total of 39 high quality pictures to guide you through [...]

Coral Reef Treasure

More experimentation with the needle lace technique applied to wire. This seemed the natural next step … a netted bezel. This is the most incredible specimen of fossilized coral I’ve ever seen. The stone itself is just stunning. I knew it deserved something special. I captured it in a netted bezel and added a sandy [...]

Mosaic Equine / Horse Pendant

This is my second mosaic horse bust pendant, inspired by Azalea Egyptian Arabians, breeders of Egyptian Arabian horses. I formed the frame from 20 gauge sterling silver wire and then used endless feet of hair thin sterling wire to secure countless 2 mm to 4mm freshwater pearls and sterling beads to the frame. The eye [...]

Water for your fire …Blue Blossom.

Something cool and refershing to bring down the heat! THIS piece should have been named Water Garden, but I already had a piece with that title. I adore this beautiful bracelet. Even though it’s a little too chunky for my personal taste, I pull it out and admire it often. It has such a tranquil [...]

Spicy Salsa … Fire in the Belly

This bracelet was created for the Year of Jewelry Project 2007. I’m late posting this to the blog so I will actually have to go hunt up what week it was … I know, bad Delia. :::smacks hand:::
Faceted carnelian roundells create the bangle and the double netted clasp focal is some kind of lace agate. [...]

Terra X

I’ve been wanting to try something Dana Kellin-ish lately so I started coiling beads to this frame. I originally had planned to use a different focal stone in the center but it wasn’t really big enough for the frame. Then I remembered a pendant like this that Magdalena had done with a marquis stone set [...]