The Year of Jewelry Project ~ Week 6
This project took me waaaay outside my comfort zone. I haven't really done any masculine jewelry. So when a fellow asked me to take this medallion and add a stamped copper bail, put it on a beefier braided "something" and add the two bears teeth, one on either side, attached somehow..... Oh and could I make the braid red and black... And it needed to be really tough cuz he is going to wear it pretty much all the time..... I was a little nervous☺ I decided we needed to go with leather, so I pulled out the Kumihimo disk that I had to have a while back because it looked like it would be fun to learn, and up to this point had never been used and found a tutorial on youtube and made a couple different sized braid samples for him to choose from. (All I had was brown leather so I had to order the red and black. Only proving that I obviously don't have enough supplies) He went with a 12 strand s...