Nests!
July 7, 2009
Opened up the latest issue of Step by Step Wire Jewelry this weekend and saw a new project from Sally Stevens – Bird’s Nest Pendant. Using just a bit of wire and a few colored beads, you can use Sally’s instructions to create cute little nests!
The technique is a little different from the one I’ve been using (tut by Cathe Holden), but the result is the same – a tiny little wire nest with “eggs” that you can use as a pendant, ring, earrings…the possibilities are limitless!
Stevens’ instrcutions show a new twist – placing the nest on a branch that becomes the bail for the pendant, and I’m anxious to try something similar. I made several nests before the Grand Cities Art Fest in gunmetal craft wire (pictured), copper and sterling silver, and they were GONE in short time….people love them!
Regardless of what method you use, making wire nests is easy and fun. The hardest part for me was “allowing” myself to have kinks in the wire, which made it look more like the not perfect nests that are created in nature.
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