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Cabs in a Day
In this fun, fast-paced 1-day workshop, students will learn how to cut a cabochon out of a rough stone. Focus will be placed on slicing rough stones, shaping them into extremely simple round, ovular, or soft-edged shapes, as well as polishing the stones. By the end of this workshop, students will have various finished, ready-to-set, hand-made gems that they can incorporate into jewelry!
Meet the instructor
Allie is a Santa Clarita, CA native. During her younger years, she and her family rooted in a quaint town outside of Boston, MA. Allie later went on to attend Massachusetts College of Art & Design, where she graduated with a BFA in Jewelry & Metalsmithing.
Started in January 2020, Allie Keast Jewelry emerged as a creative means to capture and transform the many beautiful elements that surround and influence us. Inspired by her love of collecting ephemera; jewelry making has facilitated her desire to give these findings a new life.
Each piece is thoughtfully designed and meticulously crafted to last, using hand sourced and recycled materials from all over, but predominantly from the Northern East Coast.
Allie's work has been featured in Milano Jewelry Drops, MassArt and the Fuller Craft Museum. You can catch her at various Artisan Markets selling her work throughout New England.
When Allie isn't in her studio, you can find her scurrying the New England sea shores for lost shells and stones, or lounging with her best bud and ANK mascot, Rusty the bearded dragon.
Visit www.alliekeastjewelry.com to view Allie's work.
Materials & Tools
There is a $15 lab fee for this course payable upon registration to cover the cost of various items needed for course objectives.
Alli will be bringing her own collections of rough stones for each students to pick from. Pricing will be determined by the type of stone, size of the stone, and how many stones students want to purchase.
- Closed-toe shoes - required in the Metalwerx studio
- Any of their own rough stones - 1"x1" scale recommended
- Studio apron
- Studio towel
- Notebook or sketchpad
- Pen or pencil
- lunch - Metalwerx has a fridge, toaster oven, and microwave