31 Days of Halloween - Day 25 - Wicked Wire Wrapping for a Pendant

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    Making jewelry findings can be lots of fun and way easier than you think! In this tutorial, I'll show you how to make a bail for a pendant. It can be used on anything that has a front to back hole that you want to string on a chain.

Click here to see how the cardboard pendant was made

Materials:
20 Gauge wire - 6"
Accent bead
Round nose pliers
Chain nose pliers
Wire Cutters

1. Measuring 1 1/2" from one end of the wire, bend the wire around something large enough for your pendant piece. I used a jump ring sizer, but you could use anything. Crimp the wrapped wire just below where they meet.
2. You just made the loop to go through the hole on your pendant piece. Slide the pendant piece on the loop.
3. Grasp the loop on the outside of the pendant piece using the round nose pliers. Bend the short wire tail to the side and wrap it around the long wire tail.
4. Slide on and accent bead. In the video, I didn't wrap the short tail before adding the bead. I chose a bead with a hole large enough to fit over both wire tails and wrapped the short tail above the bead. Either way is fine.
5. Starting just above the bead, wrap the long tail around a pencil (or anything you have handy) twice. At the end of the second wrap, cross the wire over to the other side of the first wrap and wrap the tail around between the double loop and the bead.

It won't look manufactured, but I happen to like the wabi-sabi style. Imperfect is charming to me!

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