How To Make Coiled Pink Perfection Bracelet

Описание: Today we're making a memory wire bracelet using coils of wire for spacers, and coiled coils for beads.

You'll need a package of wire this is kind of a fun wire to use for wire wrapping. It's 20 gauge; if you look at it closely you can see that it is actually wires that are twisted together, so you already have a twist.

Then you're just going to use coiling gizmo to coil them into two long coils. Then you're going to cut this into 10 to 12 pieces, and let me show you how to cut these. So I didn't measure anything, I just kind of cut them anywhere from three-quarters to a little over an inch.

What you do is you bend up your coil, and that separates out one for you, and then you can use your flush cutters to get in there, and just cut that wire, and separate them out. Then you can see that your end gets distorted, so what you can do is actually slide your coil back onto your mandrel, and this is a 1-millimeter mandrel by the way, and then you can use a pair of chain nose pliers to just kind of push those coil ends back nice, and tight up against each other, and if these little ends are sharp, push them down so they're not sharp.

Take three 1-yard pieces of 22 gauge wire and coil cut those each into two pieces. Now, what I often like to do in this case is leave my wire on the spool so that I don't waste it, and I'll make several of these coiled coil beads at once.

The first thing you'll need to do, you can do two or three, up to three at a time on a mandrel. Wrap a little bit of the wire around the handle of your mandrel, slide your mandrel into the tool, and if I wasn't filming this, this would be clamped to a bench, which does help.

Next, before you slide up your coil, just go ahead and make a few wraps until you're far enough away from the handle that you can make about three or four wraps that are nice, tight against each other. That's going to be the end of your bead. Zoom in for you. Then just slide your coil up, and hold it in place, and wrap the same, the same way you did for wrapping just a single wire. I just love the way that looks, it's kind of like magic.

And then make again three or four wraps at the end, and then if I'm making multiple beads on one mandrel, Then you can just cut these apart, and leave about three or four coils of wire on each end of each bead.

So now that you know how to make your coiled spacers and your coiled coil beads, let me just review a little bit of the math. These spacers are made with 20 gauge wire, and three meters, little over three yards will yield about twelve inches of coils, and I've cut these into I think about a dozen pieces. Then these coiled coil beads, are made of 22 gauge wire, and a one yard, about a one meter piece will yield about three inches of coils, which is enough to make two of these beads. So I've gone ahead and made, I think, about eight beads, and these coils, and then I've assembled some other beads.

I have these little rose quartz beads from House of Gems, I have some glass cubes, I have some crystals, and then just some cloisonne beads that I thought would be pretty, sort of focals along with the coiled beads. And then of course for a memory wire bracelet you'll need some memory wire. I like to cut about five loops. That works out to be around 35 inches, and gives you a bracelet that'll wrap around your wrist about four times.

One more thing I thought would be fun to add to this bracelet are just these little rhinestone dangles, because you have to make a loop on each end of your wire to keep your beads from slipping off, and so these can dangle from the loop. Now this wire is, like I said, it's tempered, that's why it holds its shape, why it's memory wire, so it's a little bit hard to shape, but you're only going to have to make two loops, so you can do it.

You just use your round nose pliers, make sure there's no wire poking out, grasp it nice and tight, and then bend, and bend until you have a loop, and then I'll just open that a little, and slide on my dangle. Now the rest is really easy, you're just going to pick somewhere to start in your pattern, and string on all your beads. Make a loop at the end, add your other dangle if you like, and that's it.

Here's another look at the bracelet that we made today. I hope you like this idea of using wire coils to make your own beads and components for your jewelry.