New Hobby!

I signed up for the Craftsy class on wire wrap jewerly and am having so much fun.  I don't have very good supplies, as I'm trying to spend as little as possible, but I spent this week making a long necklace (I like to wrap them a few times) and some earrings. I have really practiced my wire wrapped loops, which is one of the main building blocks of this technique.

The class was a great value at $14.95.  My only issue with Craftsy is if you don't get the class when it is new, the instructors don't seem to answer questions anymore.  Whenever I have a new class, you hear back in like a day. It's been a few days, and I haven't heard anything from this instructor. But- if you just want to learn from the demos, she was amazing. Very clear, and repeated the basics to boost memory of important steps.

I didn't do any of the class projects (the earrings all seemed really heavy!) but I'm really happy with what I did make.  I think I might try to buy some better quality (but still not jewelry grade) metals and make more things!

Here's a close up:

If you do make jewelry- don't use cheap seed beads. Rather than pink plastic, they are coated clear plastic. And when it rained, half of the beads had their coating flake off!