I am loving this big cuff bracelet. I never would have even considered something like this before; just wouldn’t have known how to approach it. Truth is, it took me a while to figure it out, even now.
The design started with the white beach glass at the center. I’d been itching to use the mint green glass beads for a while so I laid them around the edges. It was starting to turn into something. I took an index card and attached the design with double sided tape and set it aside. I didn’t have a cuff bracelet blank large enough and had to order some. I get them from Metalliferous, fabulous folks, I got to go in person when I went to NYC Nov 2010.
I made a tab setting out of brass the shape of the beach glass. I made slits in brown stiffened felt and pushed the tabs through the felt to hold the beach glass securely. Then I sewed the mint green glass beads on with Nymo. I sandwiched a piece of 26 gauge copper sheet between two layers of the brown stiffened felt and then used bolts to attach it to the cuff. I darkened the entire thing and viola. It makes me happy to figure stuff like this out.
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At first I thought you had drilled the glass, the tabbs seem to go all the way through. Nice work.
Love the happy cuff.