Bev's blog, Flamingo Toes, is always my go-to when it comes to jewelry making. She puts together great knockoff tutorials for Anthro jewelry that you'd usually have to pay an arm and a leg for and her tutorials are always really easy to follow. I happened to be at a hardware store a couple of nights ago, so after reading her tutorial, I picked up some brass tube and modified her tutorial to make a couple of bracelets of my own!
I didn't have any cording, but I did have suede so that's what I used for mine. I also opted to be really lazy and cut the tubing with wire cutters rather than doing it the (way cleaner and better-looking) correct way of using a saw or other tool to cut the tube. Please also don't look too closely at the fact that I went with silver clasps because I didn't have gold :) My motto is "make it work" AKA "I'm too lazy to do it the right way so I'll use what I have." I bought more brass tubes to make more, and I'll definitely be cutting it with a saw next time.
Thanks, Bev, for the great tutorial (and the new addiction to making these awesome bracelets)!
I like the leather cord better!
ReplyDeleteI think I like the leather cord better too :) This looks fun. Glad to see you are all getting settled in Pittsburgh - woohooo!
ReplyDeleteI'm going to make it a third vote for your leather cord! Love this project idea. I keep meaning to dig out the jewelry stuff, but I never seem to get around to it... maybe I should take this as inspiration!
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