Hello Handmade Jewelry Club
readers! We're back for another jewelry making ideas and tips. I mentioned in
my last week’s article, “Wire Jewelry -
Beginner: Making and uses of eye pins” that on my next post
for a series of lessons on how to make wire jewelry we’re going to learn the
basics of jump rings. Well, I thought of going back a little bit and maybe
should first talk about another type of finding, closely related to eye pins,
which are the head pins.
These are
head pins and they don’t have a loop or eye like with eye pins. Actually, they
look similar to thin nails or sewing pins but without the pointed end. You
won’t get pricked, but of course, you still need to be careful working with any
kind of metal.
Just like
the eye pins, head pins are also available in various lengths and gauges.
Again, depending on the type of jewelry or size of beads you’re going to use you
should choose the right length, especially the right gauge of head pins. Using
the wrong gauge of head pin sometimes can cause some types of beads to break.
Head pin
is an essential component when you’re learning how to make wire jewelry and its
use is best utilized in constructing earrings. Because head pin has a flat end,
this flat end already serves as your bead stopper. Just slide in some beads of
your choice and then create a loop at the other end to attach your ear wire.
When you’re still learning how to make wire jewelry constructing earrings is
the simplest way to learn it. Now, we’ve all learned how to make a
loop in our previous posts, but to give you an idea how to
construct an earring using head pins here is a helpful video tutorial
from Beads by Lili.
Now, that you’ve learned
the basic way to make earrings with head pins, why don’t we add fun to a simple
earring construction and put color, crystals, seed beads and style, and learn how to construct
earrings with XQDesigns' free tutorial.
I hope
you learned something useful with our jewelry making lesson and added another jewelry
making idea into your jewelry making hobby. So, go now and grab your beads and
head pins, and create beautiful earrings that you could give to your friends
and families this coming Christmas. Ciao!
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