Design Guide Host: Judi W atanabe

Design Guide
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It’s The Pits
Host: Judi Watanabe
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It’s the Pits
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Eat your fruit!
Sometimes the most creative crafting ideas pop into our head when we least expect it. Judi
was having lunch with a bunch of girlfriends—being good girls, they ate their fruit for good
nutrition—when one of them held up a fruit pit and said, “Wonder what this would look like
as earrings”…Judi got right to work—and the rest, as they say, is history!
FEATURED PRODUCTS
JudiKins
• Amazing Glaze
• Embossing Powders
–Pastel
–Metallic Bronze
–Egyptian Gold
• Embossing Ink
Tools:
• Hand Drill
• Embossing Heat Tool
• Small Block of Wood
• Wood Skewer
• Tiny Hand Drill or Small Nail &
Hammer
• Needle Nose Pliers, 2 pair
• Wire Cutters
• Clipboard
Supplies:
• Dishwasher Detergent, about 1 tsp.
• Fruit Pits—Plum, about 18–21
• 24 gauge jewelry wire, about 36"
• ½" Wide Brown Organza Ribbon, 24"
• 3/16" Wide Brown Dotted Ribbon, 24"
• 7½" Sterling Silver Bracelet Chain
• Toggle Clasps for Closure
• 11 Clear “E” Beads
Bijou Beadery
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FROM PLUMS TO PEARLS
Eat Fruit—enjoy—save the pits! Here’s the proof that crafting is good for your health! Clean the pits. Place about
1 teaspoon of DISHWASHER detergent in a bowl of warm water. Stir to dissolve and add the fruit pits—Judi is
working with plum pits, cherimoya pits and cherry pits in this episode—use what you have on hand. Also, depending on the season, you’ll have different fruits available.
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Drill holes in plum pits. Place plum pits, one at a time, on a scrap
block of wood. Use a tiny hand drill (or small nail and hammer) to
make a divet near the top of the plum pit—the pointed end.
Hold the plum pit with jewelry pliers. Use a small hand drill or
electric drill (3/32 drill bit) to make the hole to string onto a bracelet
or necklace later.
Continue to drill all of the fruit pits—Judi used 11 plum pits—now
that’s a lot of fiber—to make this bracelet.
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Pick up the plum pit with a wooden skewer. Apply Clear Embossing Ink from JudiKins to the plum pit. Dip directly into jar of Amazing Glaze from JudiKins. This is a thick embossing powder that
will fill in any ridges on the plum pit for a smooth finish. Heat with
embossing heat tool to melt Amazing Glaze. If necessary, repeat.
Immediately dip directly into jar of JudiKins’ Pastel embossing powder. Again heat with embossing heat tool to melt powder.
Continue with each plum pit until you have enough
for your bracelet.
Using the pearl embossing powder gives the pit a “fresh water pearl” look. Other embossing powders will
give different looks, like JudiKins Rustique powders in Azure or Jade will make a Lychee seed look like
turquoise. The possibilities are endless.
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Make the bracelet. Start with a 7½" sterling silver chain and add a toggle clasp to the ends.
Cut eleven 2" pieces of 24 gauge wire. Thread one end of a wire through the hole in the plum pit. Hold one end
of the wire with round nose pliers and wrap the other end of the wire around the end you are holding—very close
to the plum pit. Wrap several times. Snip off the excess wire with wire cutters.
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Thread a 2” length of 24 gauge wire through the hole in the embossed pit so that about 1/2” wire is on one side. Wire wrap this
short end several times around the longer wire. Snip off excess
wire. Thread a clear “E” bead onto the long remaining wire. Thread
the wire through a link in the bracelet chain. Use
jewelry pliers to make a loop around the chain
link and wire wrap towards the “E” bead. Snip off
excess wire.
Continue adding embossed plum pits to the
bracelet until it is full.
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GOLDEN PIT NECKLACE
This time drill a 1/8" hole at each end of the plum pit. Pick up the
pit with a wooden skewer. Apply clear embossing ink to the pit and
emboss with Amazing Glaze as before.
Immediately dip the hot pit directly into the jar of Metallic Bronze
Embossing Powder from JudiKins. Heat with an embossing heat
tool to melt the embossing powder.
Immediately dip half of the Bronze Embossed plum pit into the jar
of Egyptian Gold Embossing Powder, also from JudiKins. This is
translucent gold powder with sparkles in it, for an extra glimmer.
Heat with embossing heat tool
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Tie the brown organza and brown dotted ribbon together about 2"
from the ends of the ribbon with an overhand knot. Place this knot
under the clip end of the clipboard to hold in place.
Fold about a 3" piece of florist wire in half and place the untied end
of the organza ribbon in the wire—twist together to secure. This
will serve as the needle to thread the ribbon through the pits more
easily.
Repeat this step with the open end of 3/16" wide brown
polka-dot ribbon.
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String the double-embossed pits onto the ribbons. Start with the
wire “needle” on the organza ribbon. Bring it from the back of the
pit through the top hole and to the back of the pit from the bottom
hole.
With the wire needle on the brown polka-dot ribbon, bring it from
the front of the pit to the back of the top hole and from the back to
the back of the bottom hole.
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Position the double-embossed pit about 6" from the end of the
ribbons clipped to the clipboard. Tie an overhand knot about
½” from the pit that is strung onto the ribbons. By stringing the
double-embossed pits this way, they will lay flat on the ribbons.
Move down the ribbons about ½" and continue adding doubleembossed pits until all th pits are strung on the
ribbons.
Decide on a length that is good for you and trim
the ends as necessary.
Add a ribbon end to finish of the ends of the ribbon
and then add a toggle clasp to close the necklace.
Mango
Madness
Yes, this gorgeous piece is made from a mango pit. After cleaning the pit
cover the entire thing with embossing ink, just like the smaller plum pit. Coat
with one or two coats of Amazing Glaze, followed by Rustique Patina Azure
embossing powder. Add the sparkle with a final coat or two of Extreme
Peacock embossing powder. The bezel that encloses this beautiful piece
is sterling silver wire.
Rockin’ Red Cherries
Cherry pits are tiny, so be careful when drilling holes in them. These
holes are drilled through the entire pit from top to bottom. Emboss with
Rocking Red Embossing Powder from JudiKins. Thread an embossed pit
onto a head pin and wire wrap with a loop to attach to a jump ring. Repeat
two more times. Attach all 3 to a jump ring. Thread a narrow red velvet
ribbon through the jump ring for a dramatic necklace.
Congratulations!
You’ve just completed your It’s the Pits Jewlery, but the fun doesn’t stop there!
Be sure to stop back by Plum & Verdigris every week for more exciting new twists on jewlery making!
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