Make Your Own Wirework Findings

Description Take your passion for making jewelry to the next level by learning to create your own beautiful, custom findings for wirework bracelets, necklaces and earrings. Award-winning artist Lisa Niven Kelly will entertain and encourage as she walks you through forming a wide variety of findings from ear wires to head pins and more! You’ll learn to perfect the basic loop and then build on that to create hooks, clasps and toggles that can serve as a stunning focal point for a piece. She will show you how to make coils, spirals and flowers to add interest and intricacy to the functional elements of your jewelry designs. You will learn to work in a variety of gauges and metals. Lisa shares her passion for design and will give you the confidence to create and construct your own metal masterpieces.

• Class Preview
• Introduction
• Wire Working Basics
• Coiling and Jump Rings
• Head Pins
• Ear Wires
• Hook Clasps
• Toggle Clasps
• Sculptural Wire Toggles
• Oxidizing & Polishing