Loopdedoo: Thread Wrapped Bracelets

Loopdedoo

I picked this up at Jo Anne's with a 40% off coupon and I am pleasantly surprised at how fun and easy it is to use.

Check out some of the bracelets I made with it! I decided to make matching buttons from polymer clay for clasps.

Set of 3 Thread Wrapped Bracelets

Blue, Chartruese, and Purple Thread Wrap Bracelet 

Blue, Green, and Brown Thread Wrap Bracelet

Purple Ombre Striped Thread Wrapped Bracelet

Making Your Own Ball Tipped Silver Headpins

It's as simple as taking your silver wire and sticking the tip in the blue part of the flame of your torch until it melts into a ball the size you want then quench in cool water. But I kept getting lopsided balls, the wire always curled up to one side or another. Maybe I'm the only one who didn't know this but in case I'm not... So, use fine silver wire, .999 not sterling silver, .925.

the sterling silver balls up to the side, not to mention you still have to pickle and tumble them to get off the firescale and restore the shine

fine silver balls up nice and even and you don't have to take any additional steps, it stays nice and shiny!

Okay. It's a new day. I'm going to attack this layout thing again and see if I can't get this blog to look like I want it to.
Anyway. That's only half the problem. The other half is what to post. How about sharing my works in progress? That will give you an idea of who I am. And please feel free to comment, I love feedback and it'll let me know someone is out there! 
I love working with all kinds of mediums, in the chaos of where I create I have a polymer clay station, a paper station, a metal station, and a beading station. I'm in the middle of a few different things... lets see...

At the Polymer Clay Station

I was working on a pendant but too much has gone wrong I think for me to salvage it. What do you think? First the liquid clay is lumpy. Second, when I added the first liquid clay layer I smeared the word "bloom" I had stamped in silver. I don't know if i didn't let it dry long enough, maybe I should have heat set it? I'll try again, unfortunately I don't have another image transfer of that- its my own photograph of a flower.

At the Beading Station

I'm working on this coin pearl necklace, it's going to have a toggle clasp that doubles as the focal.

At the Metal Station

I hate sawing but I managed to get these two pieces for a toggle clasp for the pearl necklace out of a sheet of brass, now I have to finish them. I've still got to sand them smooth and I'm thinking a hammered finish. 

At the Paper Station

I'm working on these snowflakes for a garland. I used my Cricut and white card stock.
At first I planned to use glitter but I hated the look so I'm going with silver embossing powder.

Now I've gotta add silver embossing powder to all the tips and then string them up!

Also at the Beading Station 

I've been on a mission to use up materials I already have and I was staring at my seed bead stash (I used to love to bead weave) and thought I'd tackle a project from this book again.

That covers the big ones. The only one that is for me is the tuffet box. The rest will end up on etsy.