To make the crystal wrapped hoops we've got hoops and these are different than
hoop earrings that have an opening that you put through your ear. Instead these
are complete rings that are soldered closed and we're going to hang them
inside of earring wires. And this is nice because they move a little bit more than
a regular hoop earring. So we've got the rings are silver and they're 30
millimeters in diameter, silver earring wires also, and then we've got our beads.
These beautiful bicone beads are four millimeter tanzanite color with an AB or
aurora borealis finish. We've got 26 gauge wire that we're going to use to
wrap these beads onto the rings here the hoops and for tools we have wire cutters
and we have chain nose pliers
to get started the first thing you want to do is cut your 26 gauge wire cut a
piece that's about 24 inches long hopefully that's more than we need but
it's better than it being too short so what I'm going to do is I'm going to
take about an inch of this wire and pinch it in my fingers I'm going to hold
it up to our ring this is the ring that we're gonna put the beads on and I'm
gonna hold that tail out leave it out there and I'm gonna wrap the wire around
the loop about three times and with this wire we're gonna have to feed it up and
through the ring so I'm going to do it kind of gently so that we don't get
kinks in our wire so there's our first wrap I've gone around I'm still pinching
this tail holding that in place I'm gonna wrap this three times I'm gonna
feed the wire through again and 26 gauge wire is pretty thin so it bends nicely
pull that up and around so there's two wraps and then I'm gonna do a third wrap
here it looks a little unwieldy but you'll manage it and pull that one tight
there's our third wrap so I can see I've got one two three wraps there and then
I'm just gonna push those wires together doesn't that look nice so you don't have
to get them nice and next to each other while you're putting it on there you can
push them together with your fingers I've got three wraps on there I'm going
to leave that tail and I'm gonna feed on my first bicone so here's our beautiful
tanzanite a B finish four millimeter bike home and I'm just gonna thread it
on and I'm gonna press that bicone up against the ring here and then I'm gonna
wrap the wire around two times so it's the same kind of wrapping we just did
pull the end up through the ring and that's going to hold that bicone on to
the hoop so there's our first bicone on there I'm going to do it one more loop
and I'm gonna pull that nice and tight there's our tails trying to escape I'm
gonna pull that back around and now we just feed on another bike um so here's
another four millimeter bicone number just going to do the same thing again
I'm pressing it up against the ring and then take the tail of my wire and I'm
going to feed it through the hoop two times one and two so now you can start
to see it coming together that there's going to be a few wraps that show on the
ring and then the bike cones are going to sit on the outside edge of the hoop
I'm going to feed on another bicone here
and you can do these in any colors of course and you can use any kind of wire
any color wire so you could do copper rings with copper wire and copper
earring wires and then pick some color bicones that would look beautiful with
that maybe red or black I'm feeding that wire through a second time to make two
loops or two wraps so every time I'm doing two reps between the by cons I've
got three bicones three reps was just the beginning two reps two wraps two
wraps so the second wrap tells me I'm ready to
put on another bicone I just feed that right on there slide it all the way down
I've got a little kink in my wire I remember it's trying not to kink the
wire it won't show but it just makes it hard to put the beads on but it won't
show at all when we're doing the getting down to that part of the wire is that
all the way now I've got four beads on there I'm going to wrap two times go
through once what kind of tight and go through
another time second time
nice and tight so now we just feed on another bead it really is as simple as
this you just continue in the same pattern feeding on a bicone wrapping the
wire around the hoop two times and then feeding on another bicone and wrapping
another two times and I'm going to do this all the way around this ring until
I get matched back up with the three wraps we started with
putting on my last bicone here and doing three reps this time so all the other
bicones when I put them on I did two raps
this one just like we did at the beginning part here we did three brats
I'm gonna do three more raps and that's just to make it a little bit more secure
one two and three there's three raps there and that's already gorgeous look
at that isn't that amazing yeah this would be kind of neat as a pendant to it
wouldn't it but we're gonna make them into earrings so what I'm going to do
now is I'm going to trim the wire and to do that I've got my wire cutters these
are called flush cutters they're flat on one side and v-shaped on the other when
they cut the wire they cut a pointy side and a flat side we want a flat side on
the project so I put the flat side towards the project I'm just cutting the
wire very close and I'm gonna flip it over and cut our beginning tail remember
that was our inch tail we started with I'm just gonna cut it close don't cut
too much and cut through your extra wraps so there's our little hoop all
beaded up and looking gorgeous I've got the chain nose pliers here I'm gonna
press that end down a little bit that I just cut and then I'm gonna put the
earring wire in and I want to put the earring wire in between these sets so
I've got three loops here and three loops here I'm just pulling them apart a
little bit that's where I'm going to put the earring wire this is a fishhook
style earring wire and what we want to do is we want to open up this little
hoop this little loop at the end of the earring wire so we can fit the ring in
there and I don't want to open it up outwards I don't want the hoop to be
opened outwards and lose its round shape so instead I'm gonna open it sideways
I'm gonna kind of slide it past the hoop the earring fishhook part and then I'm
gonna feed on our ring here Nestle it in there and then I'm going to close this I
don't want to close it too tight because I want to keep this movement that's
what's really fun about this type so I'm going to close it a little bit
by pressing it together just want it a little loose so that you still have some
nice movement and dangle with your hoops so to make the second airing you're
going to do the same thing you're gonna take the bicones and wrap them around
the other ring attach your earring wires and you'll have a beautiful pair of
crystal wrapped hoops
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