I've been searching all over the place for eyeglasses holder findings, and all i can find are gold or silver plated or nickel. I want to make a convertable necklace/eyeglasses holder for a friend of mine who just started wearing reading glasses...but i can't find any that are silver or gold filled, because nickel makes her break out. Any ideas? I've Googled...and searched for hours and at my wit's end. Thanks so much for any help. The only thing i can think of is to get some wire and make some myself...taking the rubber loops out of a lesser quality metal set....but is that really feasable?
I have seen them with all rubber, usually in black. If you don't find and you only want one pair, check at the dollar store or a sporing goods store and buy a completed one with the all rubber. Also look at the ones that hold your glasses tight to the head, "Croakies" they are made with only a polypropolene type of material with a tight tube that goes over the ear piece. YOu might get one of those and and cut a small section of the tube off and then bead from it. Susan W
I didn't think about looking at the dollar store...i could at least take the metal part off it and wrap them with my own wire, i suppose. The Croakies ones just won't do in this case because the earpieces on my friend's reading glasses are much too small for them (and even if they did fit, i can't even figure out how to make the thing convert to a necklace?) Anyway, i will definitely take your suggestion to look at the dollar store, thanks!
For my own, I use the clear glasses holder and wrap the end very tightly to the end of the glasses, permanently. My nose is missing a lot of cartilage and the weigh of normal glasses puts my nose "to sleep" and it gets all weird and tingly, so I use the very lightest glasses, with skinny ear pieces.
Actually I need to redo my glasses leashes soon. I think I'll wire a loop tight around the glasses and a loop at the bottom to connect to. Maybe with a crystal between the loops. Then I could just hook what ever leash I want onto it using those EZ Lock clasps Kandice showed us on both ends of the leashes.
The loop and crystal would be permanently on the ear piece, like an ear ornament. I always put my leashes on at the very end tip of the ear piece (temple bar), because I find that seeing the chain in my peripheral vision is extremely distracting. I always use small transparent or translucent beads to make the chain as invisible and neutral as I can. Especially since you want her to able to use the glasses chain with as many of her outfits as possible.
By the way, I think I'd make (for myself or a friend) a matching set of necklace and eye glass leash, especially if the idea is to help her learn to use the "leash". So she won't justify not using it for her glasses by deciding to use it always as a necklace.
(I am guessing this is brass, but it does say gold colored metal.)
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one says brass - I see these all over the place. Usually they say goldcolored, but often that means brass.http://www.landofodds.com/Search.bok?category=EYEGLASS+HOLDER+ENDS+FOR+EYEGLASS+LEASHESHere's a whole ton of different ones - all kinds of metals.I hope this helps! :)
Don't think of using the croakie in the standard way but just cutting a 1/4 inch piece of the tube that goes over the ear piece. Then using beading thread take a few stitches through the seam and make your leash the length you want and then finish with another tube. It will be a l------------------l with the l being the tubes and the ----being the beads. If you wanted to you could also put jump rings through the tubes and then attach the leash to that.
Since she has problems with metal I would be sure to make the leashes detatacable from the ear pieces so that if she has a problem with the metal on the holders you can change them out. Use some type of clasp to hook on to the circle on the holder. Another advantage to this is that you can then hook the two clasps together and have a necklace.
Susan W
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> This one says brass - I see these all over the place. Usually they saygold> > colored, but often that means brass.> >
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> Here's a whole ton of different ones - all kinds of metals.> >> > I hope this helps! :)> >
yes, pewter would be great! She loves silver...and i was trying to put those gold ones with the purple beads i had for her, and it just looked horrible (though i will use them for a chain for my grandmother...). Do you have a source?
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