(In Different Phrases… When Issues Do not Go as Deliberate)
For the previous 12 months (at the least!) I’ve had a bit pile of quilled marquises and tight coils on my desk which were patiently ready for me to assemble them right into a necklace pendant. I do not know why I by no means made time to complete the mission, aside from the truth that I did not want the pendant for any explicit function. However lately, I did… a high I deliberate to put on to a vacation get collectively would look good with silver-edge black paper. Thus, this new necklace made it into actuality in the end.
However shock, shock! As I started gluing the coils right into a circle to duplicate a design I would made numerous occasions earlier than, they saved insisting on forming an oval. Effectively, okay… at the least the design can be a bit completely different to point out on the weblog so I went with it.
You will discover step-by-step photographs and directions to make the unique round pendant in an earlier submit. (For it, I used silver-edge ivory strips.)
Nevertheless, tampering with the design stretched the marquises on the backside of the oval. I am positive you possibly can see the wonkiness, particularly as a result of shut up pictures of quilling have a means of compounding errors. Including one other marquise and a pair extra domed tight coils will likely be all it
takes to appropriate the issue sooner or later. However first, I will have to replenish my strip provide… you see, I actually had all of two inches of leftover silver-edge black strips available. That actually put the stress on as I assembled the elements!
Whereas checking Amazon to buy extra of the gorgeous Quilled Creations metallic edge quilling strips, I observed critiques wherein folks
voiced a few disappointments. One instance, not sufficient strips in a bundle. There are thirty 17.5-inch strips… skilled quillers should not have an issue making at the least two pendants from one cheap bundle of strips.
For many who are model new to quilling, I counsel you do not use your metallic edge strips to observe. As an alternative, minimize up a sheet of printer paper and use these strips till you get used
to rolling coils evenly and easily. (Here’s a tiny paper shredder that can make brief work of slicing a sheet into 1/8″ [3mm] strips.) After getting the approach down
pat, then escape the specialty strips.
One other criticism I learn is that the strips solely have a metallic edge on one aspect. That is true. Nevertheless, it is not needed that either side have a shiny edge to make a necklace pendant. It can lay in opposition to your chest so the reverse aspect will not be seen. That stated, it will be good if there have been strips with a metallic edge on either side as this might come in useful for making dangle earrings… the earring backs may present relying on the wearer’s coiffure.
Up to now, I additionally made the round design utilizing rose gold-edge quilling strips, which sadly are not out there. If any
quilling firm proprietor occurs to be studying this submit, there’s an
concept for you – please resurrect the rose gold and copper edge strips as
they make very fairly paper jewellery!
See many extra of my quilled jewellery designs and solutions to ceaselessly requested quilling questions.