July Clay Day - The finishing touch
July's clay day is all about clasps, hooks and toggles
A lovely matching closure can make all the difference to a necklace or bracelet. A polymer toggle, a bead clasp with embedded magnets a handmade wire hook, bail or link is just what you need for a perfect finish. At our July clay day we will have a series of short demos of different ways to make your own clasps, hooks and toggles, and Ann will also demonstrate how to make best use of her products.
The Show and Tell table will have this as a theme, and we hope everyone will bring pieces with elegant closures they want to show off, pieces where the do-up raised a problem they’d like to get help on, ones where they just aren’t sure what to do with them...
To get the most out of the day you should bring:
Your usual clay day kit
Examples of good ideas for closures that you would like to show off and share with others
Problem closures, or unfinished pieces where others can give help and suggestions
If you work with wire or other materials to make your closures, do bring these materials and tools
If you want to try making a magnetic closure, a large-ish finished polymer bead, at least 1.5 cm, ideally with a hole drilled.
We will supply
Wire
Wire working tools to share
Magnets
Glue
Agenda for the day
10:00 Welcome, setup, refreshments
10:30 Show and tell - Show your beautiful closures and the ones you want some help/ with
11:00 Demonstrations
Polymer clay toggles - Ruth
Making wire work hooks and links - Ann
Magnetic bead clasps - Theresa
Using Monkey Ann clasps - Ann
12:00 Working on your project
13:00 Lunch - including (a very short!) AGM for the group
15:45 Last oven bake
