Step by Step Wire Jewelry, Spring 2009

Every issue of Step by Step Wire Jewelry includes projects in all different wire techniques, and this one is no different. Learn how to weave wire in a beautiful focal pendant, accompanied with a coiled-link chain. Hammer and texture heavy gauge wire into a variety of squiggly links for a bold bracelet. If chain maille is your thing, you’ll want to make both the beautiful bracelets in this issue.

Contributing editor Ronna Weltman explores the variety of affordable materials jewelry artisans are using to stretch their budgets without sacrificing their art. Then you create your own inexpensive designs using copper and craft wire in Catherine Nay’s Fleur Wirework pendant and Gaea Cannaday’s See Lantern Necklace.

And one of our most popular contributors, Cassie Donlen, shows you how to make gorgeous, stamped ring shanks to show off some of your favorite lampwork beads.

Or showcase some of your favorite beads in a 5-minute pendant with just an 8” piece of 18-gauge wire and 10” of 20-gauge!

• Off the wire by Denise Peck, Editor-in-Chief
• Wire, fire, and a bypass strategy by Connie Fox
• Affordable alchemy by Ronna Sarvas Weltman
• Wire macrame bracelet by Tina Holden
• Convertible steampunk necklace by Debra Gray-Wurz
• Swirls & whirls by Pepper Mentz
• Two-toned turkish bracelet by Joyce Tromp
• Copper duet bracelet by Sharilyn Miller
• Suspended bonsai by Bobby Johnston
• Wonder rings by Cassie Donlen
• Fleur wirework pendant by Catherine Nay
• See lantern necklace by Gaea Cannaday
• Nicole earrings by Susan Olivo
• Wire basics
• Wire works
• Daisy bracelets by Jackie Koppany
• Leather loops by Jodi L. Bombardier
• Rainforest silver bracelet by Phyllis Adams
• Product news by Sara E. Graham, Assistant Editor
• 5-Minute Jewelry: Daring Squiggle Pendant by Jennifer Judd