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Even a wood carving – pyrography – line art artist needs a hobby. Something that is quick, fun, and inexpensive. something that you can work in the rec room, and something that will make fantastic easy gifts.
My extra hobby is wire-bent, wire-wrapped copper jewelry!
The Wire-Bent Links Bracelet, shown above, is a fun design created from a selection of the over 300 bent-wire links that you can create featured in Easy & Elegant Beaded Copper Jewelry, published by Fox Chapel in 2011.
As you practice the wide variety of copper wire bent links that you can create you will end up with a wonderful pile of small, bright, shiny links – ready for your next jewelry project.
By creating a simple straight loop beaded link chain, you now have the bracelet base on which you can hang those links, using a jump ring or split ring. This is one design where the more the better, so let your creativity run wild.
How to Create Beautiful Fashion Accessories from a Few Basic Steps
You can make affordable and stylish copper wire jewelry with a few simple tools, some wire and beads. Learn over 300 different link styles and how to create your own with step-by-step instructions and outstanding instructional photos!
Tools and Inspiration for Creating Your Own Fashionable Jewelry
This comprehensive guide to wire-wrapping jewelry covers all the techniques beginners need to know!
30 expert wire wrapping techniques step-by-step, including simple loops, cluster wrap, adding beads to wrapping wire, adding a coil element, wrapping sequential layers, and more
8 stylish DIY projects for statement jewelry like necklaces, pendants, hairpins, and earrings
Comprehensive guide includes step-by-step instructions, lists of materials and tools needed, and helpful tips and tricks
Beginner-friendly for anyone who is new to wire wrapping or just wants to brush up on techniques
Doodle Days #13 – Blue Jean Painting, Wood Burn Spoons, Wood Carved Spoons, Leather Work, Free Lora S. Irish Patterns to Download, DIY Bookmaking, Bullet Journals, Scrap Booking, Card Making, Applique Quilting, Pyrography, Wood Carving
Painted Blue Jeans using our Free Doodle Patterns
Supplies:
1 pair of medium-blue blue jeans 1 cork-backed ruler 1-3 fine-point black fabric pens 1 set of 18 to 24 colors, medium-point fabric marking pens 1 set of assorted color fabric marking pens 1 piece of scrap cardboard, large enough to slide inside the pant’s leg steam iron
Step 1: Pre-wash your jeans to remove any starch or stabilizing chemicals. Dry the jeans thoroughly before you begin painting.
Free Doodle Pattern #043
Step 2: Download your copies of our Free Doodle Patterns, here on LSIrish.com. Type doodles into the search box in the header. We are on numbers 043 to 045 today, which should give you a nice selection of designs to use.
Step 3: Cut the scrap cardboard to fit inside of the pant’s leg, so that one end of the cardboard comes out the pant’s leg at the bottom. You can move this cardboard as you work to protect the jeans from color blending through to the other side of the jeans.
Step 4: With a black fabric marking pen begin doodling … use a light pressure on the pen tip for the smoothest and fullest line coverage. Mix your main designs with long flowing line breaks and fill patterns.
Free Doodle Pattern #044
Step 5: Use a cork-backed ruler, laid along the inner leg seam line for your measurements for the edge trim design. The cork will grab the fabric, keeping the ruler in place as you work. My inner leg trim was worked at 1/2″ measurements.
Step 6: Have fun adding colors to your design. Fill in some areas with a solid coloring, and in others just add a touch of line work. Let some areas remain unpainted to allow the blue jean color to become part of your design.
Step 7: Set your fabric pen colors according to your package directions. My set only required a hot, steam pressing to become permanent coloring.
Free Doodle Pattern #045
Step 8: Flip your jeans over and do the back side of the leg.
Step 9: You can create doodle designs on the 6 1/2″ square white cotton fabric pieces using this same method and add them to your pants. Fill in some areas of your pattern with the bright colors from your set. After the patch has been hot, steam ironed it is ready to sew into place, anywhere on your doodle jeans.
What could be more perfect for our Free Doodle Patterns than a pair of blue jeans? How about the fact that I picked up these brand-new, never worn jeans at my local church thrift shop for $1 !
Doodle Days #13 – Blue Jean Painting, Wood Burn Spoons, Wood Carved Spoons, Leather Work, Free Lora S. Irish Patterns to Download, DIY Bookmaking, Bullet Journals, Scrap Booking, Card Making, Applique Quilting, Pyrography, Wood Carving
Why wear your slogan or favor designs on the sleeve of your t-shirt when you can paint them onto the legs of your favorite pair of blue jeans?
Supplies:
1 pair of pale-blue or medium-blue blue jeans 1 fine-point black fabric pen medium-point fabric marking pens – black, medium-blue, and pale-blue 1 set of assorted color fabric marking pens several 6 1/2″ squares of white cotton fabric needle and thread 1 piece of scrap cardboard, large enough to slide inside the pant’s leg steam iron
These are the specific sets of colors that I used to create my Painted Blue Jeans:
Step 1: Pre-wash your jeans to remove any starch or stabilizing chemicals. Dry the jeans thoroughly before you begin painting.
Step 2: Download your copies of our Free Doodle Patterns, here on LSIrish.com. Type doodles into the search box in the header. We are on numbers 040 to 042 today, which should give you a nice selection of designs to use.
Step 3: Cut the scrap cardboard to fit inside of the pant’s leg, so that one end of the cardboard comes out the pant’s leg at the bottom. You can move this cardboard as you work to protect the jeans from color blending through to the other side of the jeans.
Step 4: With a black fabric marking pen begin doodling … use a light pressure on the pen tip for the smoothest and fullest line coverage. Mix your main designs with long flowing line breaks and fill patterns.
Step 5: With the pale-blue fabric pen, fill the areas around your main designs with a tight dot pattern. Let the space between the dots increase as you move away from the central line of the design.
Step 6: With the medium-blue fabric pen, re-work the central area of the background with tightly packed dots.
Step 7: Using a fine-point black fabric pen, work a fill pattern over the pale-blue and medium-blue dot patterns. I used small, tightly packed circles.
Step 8: Set your fabric pen colors according to your package directions. My set only required a hot, steam pressing to become permanent coloring.
Step 9: Flip your jeans over and do the back side of the leg.
Step 10: You can create doodle designs on the 6 1/2″ square white cotton fabric pieces using this same method. Fill in some areas of your pattern with the bright colors from your set. After the patch has been hot, steam ironed it is ready to sew into place, anywhere on your doodle jeans.
Free Doodle Pattern #040
Free Doodle Pattern #041
Free Doodle Pattern #042
For more great pattern ideas for your painted blue jeans, please visit ArtDesignsStudio.com
This wind chimes will add a touch of country delight to your back porch. Its quick, easy, and fun to make a large set using graduated sizes of clay pots.
Step 1: Download your free doodle patterns, here at LSIrish.com. To discover more free patterns type doodle into the search box in the header of this page.
Step 2: Using a fine-point permanent marking pen, doodle around the lower section of the outside of your clay pot. For contrast, leave the rim of the pot without decoration. Work over some of your pattern lines several times to create a thick-and-thin outline effect.
Step 3: Wrap the thin twin around the bottom edge of the rim three times. Tie the twine tightly. Use a few drops of acrylic glue to hold the knot and twine into place. Allow the glue to dry.
Step 4: Cut a 2 yard long piece of thin twine. Thread the three gold-colored bells onto the thread, and move them to the center point of the thread. Bring the two ends of the thread together, tie a knot with the two threads about 1 1/2″ above the bells.
Step 5: Slide one 3/4″ twine bead onto the two threads and position the bead above the knot made in step 4. Tie a knot in the threads that sits on top of the bead.
This wind chimes follows the same step-by-step instructions as our Doodle Wind Chimes. The free doodles where printed on card stock paper, cut, and double-stick taped into place. This is a quick wedding decoration.
Step 6: Tie the two twine threads into a third knot the height of your clay pot away from the top of the bead. If your clay pot is 3 1/2″ tall, this third knot is made 3 1/2″ away from the bead.
Step 7: Cut two 1 1/4″ long pieces from the bamboo kitchen skewer. Tie one piece with a knot tightly above the third knot. Slide the twine, from the inside to the outside, through the hole in the bottom of the clay pot. Lay the second bamboo piece between the two twine ends, on the bottom of the pot, and secure with a tight knot. These two bamboo sticks hold the bell clapper in place.
Step 8: Hold one end of the burlap ribbon between your thumb and the side of your palm. Open your fingers as wide as possible. Wrap the ribbon over your fingers four to five times, leaving at least a 4″ long end.
Step 9: Carefully remove the wrapped burlap ribbon from your hand and place it, centered, between the two twine threads. Tie a tight knot in the twine to secure the burlap ribbons.
Step 10: Tie a knot in the twine threads 4″ to 5″ from what is now the top of your wind chime. Clip the ends to about 1/2″ long.
Step 11: Working one burlap ribbon loop at a time, turn each loop inside-out. This gives your ribbon that lovely curl.
Step 12: Use gold glitter glue to add little dots of bright, sparkling accents to your doodle pattern. Allow the glue to dry thoroughly, and your wind chime is ready to hang.
200 pages with lots and lots of
Rib Basket Weaving
Three in-depth projects,
12 Beginning Knots and Eyes
Photos … Did I say lots and lots of photos.
Weaving Techniques
How to compensate using short rows.
