How to Make Your Own Jewellery

Jewellery Making Tutorials for Making Jewellery at Home

At KerrieBerrie we provide jewellery makers with a haven of inspiring beads and jewellery making components, allowing our customers to make something truly original themselves. We'd like to share our many years of jewellery making experience, by adding a number of free jewellery making step-by-step tutorials to our website. 

We’ve also started a Youtube channel with the aim of sharing our jewellery making tips, tricks and knowledge with as many people as possible – why not subscribe to stay up to date with our jewellery making videos?

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Jewellery Making Tutorials:

JEWELLERY PROJECTS:

How to make a beaded bracelet
How to make an elasticated bracelet
How to make a beaded necklace
How to make beaded earrings

JEWELLERY TECHNIQUES:

Jewellery Findings:

How to:

  1. Open and close jump rings and chain links 
  2. Attach a clasps using fold-over cord ends
  3. Create a wire ending on leather cord 
  4. Use crimp beads, tubes and covers
  5. Attach a jump ring or clasp to beading wire
  6. Position beads with crimps for a 'floating' bracelet or necklace
  7. Attach a 'clam shell' ending when using Griffin natural silk thread
  8. Position knots in-between beads when using silk thread 
Wire Work:

How to:

  1. Make a simple loop using a headpin (to create a pendant or earring charm)
  2. Make a wrapped loop using a headpin (to create a pendant or earring charm)
  3. Open the loop on an ear wire
  4. Join two wrapped loops together
  5. Make a wrapped briolette
  6. Correct loop orientation on pendant or earring
  7. Make a double ended wrapped eye loop

  

Working with Memory Wire:

How to:

  1. Cut memory wire
  2. Create a secure ending

 

Knotting:

How to:

  1. Knot a double overhand knot (to tie off an elasticated bracelet)
  2. Create a square knot
  3. Create a sliding square knot

 

Making Earrings:

How to:

  1. Create a simple loop (for beaded earrings)
  2. Open a simple loop on an ear wire
  3. Create a wrapped loop

 

Happy Making, and don't forget to check out our Free Jewellery Making Video Tutorials.

 

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