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Posted by Colleen Shirazi, Tuesday, September 13, 2005 3:25 PM (Eastern)
I wasn't sure where to post this, exactly. We don't have a "crafts" blog...I've debated about making one, but jewelry making (as well as, say, knitting or sewing) to me, falls more under fashion than under general crafts, if only because you produce fashion items rather than, for example, home decorations.
I've just gotten into this. My primary reason of course is that I have a daughter. Daughters need jewelry; jewelry is expensive. Plus, it is difficult to find nice jewelry for children. A lot of it, for lack of a better term, is overpriced plastic crap. For example--Target. Target used to have a respectable jewelry section with $7 beaded necklaces made in Greece. No more! It's been replaced by a section with $15 plastic necklaces made in China. The quality is mediocre at best.
The first phase of jewelry making is deciding which materials you want to use. If you're going to go whole hog and you want to make fine jewelry, well, this post is not for you. I have not wanted to invest nor make elaborate jewelry. I have wanted to produce nice jewelry for young ladies, to start out with.
So far I have decided on Stretch Magic elastic cord. I experimented some with "jelly cord" that is made in Japan--it's good, but too expensive to produce more than a few pieces. Stretch Magic is made in the U.S. by Pepperell Braiding Company.
The 0.7 mm size is pretty all around. It'll do small glass beads (probably not the tiny ones, I haven't tried it yet) and it's strong enough for medium sized beads. You could go down to 0.5 mm for the tiny beads and there are also 1.0 mm, 1.5 mm, and 1.8 mm sizes.
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