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Unique, Tiny, Precious

September 3, 2018 By Carolyn Foss

These are just three of the words used in the descriptions for Mary Hettmansperger’s Expressions in Jewelry and Chad Alice Hagen’s Tiny Book Necklaces classes.   Add to that “creative”, “fun” and “fast-paced” and you have a lot of options for very personalized and special wearables. Starting with sheets of copper or brass and an assortment of found objects in Mary’s class, students then added layers, embossing, hinges and their own style to create a unique jewelry wardrobe.          Not every piece was made to wear as jewelry.  Some of these colorful metals may end up in other mixed-media art work. As Mary’s class description says, there are “endless options…”.  We loved seeing so many of them!       If you love books, you love them in all […]

Filed Under: Beading/Stitchery/Wearables, Book Arts/Paper Arts Tagged With: Chad Alice Hagen, Mary Hettmansperger, Metal Jewelry, Tiny Book Necklaces

Fiber “Candy”

September 2, 2016 By Carolyn Foss

We definitely had a feast for the eyes, ears and necklines this past week with Mary Hettmansperger’s Expressions in Jewelry and Judith Yamamoto’s Japanese Temari Techniques classes in session.  Although the materials and methods range from copper and hammers to fine threads and needles, the end results were equally inspiring and creative.   Bringing out the colors in the brass and copper sheets, embossing, layering and adding found objects opened so many avenues to create personalized jewelry.  I’m sure the jewelry boxes at home were excited to see their new companions!          Wrapping a ball, marking “equators” or obi’s to form a grid and using traditional embroidery stitches yields these dazzling results, with the basket shown below on the right the Temari made […]

Filed Under: Beading/Stitchery/Wearables, Sievers School Tagged With: Japanese Temari, Judith Yamamoto, Mary Hettmansperger, Metal Jewelry

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