You could wear these as a pendant with a simple chain or as the focal of a beaded necklace. Earring clutches can slide onto the 20 gauge wire to hold everything together or you can simply wire wrap a loop. Since there are so many openings in the filigree, you can also use jump rings as an attachment. I can envision one of these riveted to a leather bracelet. Hey, where's that old belt? :-)
The head pins are the bomb because they're more than a head pin ... plus this design means that the enamel head pin is less prone to cracking.
Do you have any ideas on how else these could be used? I'm going to give you a chance to try some of them, because Monday I'll announce the details of the giveaway!
7 comments:
These are fabulous! I just love decorative headpins but have yet to purchase any.
Love the headpins great technique to overcome the cracking issue.
Very nice, I am sooo excited, I ordered your book yesterday. I can't wait till it gets here! I recently tried to do some headpins but it did not work out :(
Sonya
What beautiful colors for Spring, Barbara! The headpins are gorgeous... I can see them clustered in earrings or wrapped around a bangle...
All lovely things Barbara. The new headpins are wonderful. I want them! I would like to make them very visible, because I really like that shape. I think I would create my own large polymer clay disks, and use the headpins to make hank buttons. The disks would be in ivory color (hopefully looking a bit like bone) and the matte surface would help enhance the shiny enameled pinwheel shape, and the ivory would contrast nicely to the color of the enamel. Then I would use the buttons as a closures in bracelets, picking up whichever color they have in one or a few other beads in the bracelet. Looking forward to the giveaway.
Thank you very much for visiting and for the feedback! I appreciate it!
Love the lacy filigri work that you have done with the beads...in amazing colours they are very captivating and eye catchy.
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