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. 

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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