{"id":552,"date":"2011-08-26T06:58:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/?p=552"},"modified":"2011-08-26T06:58:43","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T20:58:43","slug":"brooch-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/2011\/08\/26\/brooch-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooch Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">I was\u00a0sorely\u00a0tempted to buy a brooch pin but I thought I&#8217;d try my hand at making one again. \u00a0The last time I did this was at Uni and I only ever made one, ouch!<a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/08\/Moonah-Brooch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-555 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/08\/Moonah-Brooch-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/08\/Moonah-Brooch-300x180.jpg 300w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/08\/Moonah-Brooch-1024x615.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/08\/Moonah-Brooch.jpg 1708w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It seemed to me that\u00a0this\u00a0casting was just begging to be made into a brooch. \u00a0I tried to keep the integrity of the pods and use the\u00a0extended\u00a0branch\u00a0end\u00a0as part of the piece, hence the hook to catch the pin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/06\/2011-05-31_3948_edited-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-370 alignright\" style=\"border-style: initial;border-color: initial\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/06\/2011-05-31_3948_edited-2-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/06\/2011-05-31_3948_edited-2-300x112.jpg 300w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/06\/2011-05-31_3948_edited-2-1024x385.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In my first attempt I just attached the pin and put a 90 degree bend in the wire, which worked. A bit delicate though.<\/p>\n<p>On the brooch above I tried my hand at a small spring, which aesthetically works.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/08\/Brooch-coil-collage_edited-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-556\" src=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/08\/Brooch-coil-collage_edited-2-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/08\/Brooch-coil-collage_edited-2-212x300.jpg 212w, http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/files\/2011\/08\/Brooch-coil-collage_edited-2-723x1024.jpg 723w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Again, as much as I have twisted, hammered and twisted again, hardening those pins is making me question whether I should have gone with a\u00a0commercial\u00a0finding in the first place? Not as much fun to make though.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was\u00a0sorely\u00a0tempted to buy a brooch pin but I thought I&#8217;d try my hand at making one again. \u00a0The last time I did this was at Uni and I only ever made one, ouch! It seemed to me that\u00a0this\u00a0casting was just begging to be made into a brooch. \u00a0I tried to keep the integrity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/userblogs.ganoksin.com\/suzannecronin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}