How to Make a Wire Bird's Nest Pendant

http://www.beadaholique.com/jewelry-making-supplies/wire - Learn how to make a wire bird's nest pendant in this simple tutorial video. All you need are 3 beads and 5 feet of 26 gauge wire. You can make your bird's nest into a pendant or use as a charm.

Designer: Julie Bean

Related Projects:

Wire Bird's Nest Charm
Project C604
http://www.beadaholique.com/wire-bird-s-nest-charm.html

You can find the supplies in this video at Beadaholique.com

Xuron Sharp Flush Cutter Pliers - Wire/Soft Flex
SKU: XTL-5600
http://www.beadaholique.com/xuron-sharp-flush-cutter-pliers-wire-soft-flex.html

Beadsmith Jewelry Fine Round Nose Micro Pliers
SKU: XTL-5514
http://www.beadaholique.com/beadsmith-jewelry-fine-round-nose-micro-pliers.html

Xuron Jeweler's Super Fine Pliers Chain Nose Flat Nose
SKU: XTL-5450
http://www.beadaholique.com/xuron-jeweler-s-super-fine-pliers-chain-nose-flat-nose.html

Blue Turquoise Gem Round Beads 6mm Stabilized /15.5 Inch Strand
SKU: SPTU-06
http://www.beadaholique.com/blue-turquoise-gem-round-beads-6mm-stabilized-15-5-inch-strand.html

Beadalon Beading Mats - Prevent Bead Rolling 12 x 9 Inch (Set of 3)
SKU: XTL-9930
http://www.beadaholique.com/beadalon-beading-mats-prevent-bead-rolling-12-x-9-inch-set-of-3.html

Artistic Wire, Copper Craft Wire 26 Gauge Thick, 30 Yard Spool, Antiqued Brass
SKU: WCR-4202
http://www.beadaholique.com/artistic-wire-antique-brass-color-copper-craft-wire-26-gauge-30-yards.html

Copper Dangle One Ball Eye Pins 21 Gauge 2 Inches (10)
SKU: FHP-1029
http://www.beadaholique.com/copper-dangle-one-ball-eye-pins-21-gauge-2-inches-10.html

TierraCast Antiqued Copper Plated Pewter Daisy Spacer Beads 4mm (50)
SKU: BMB-3217
http://www.beadaholique.com/tierracast-antiqued-copper-plated-pewter-daisy-spacer-beads-4mm-50.html

Czech Fire Polished Glass Beads 6mm Round Mustard Yellow Picasso (25)
SKU: BCP-36402
http://www.beadaholique.com/czech-fire-polish-glass-beads-6mm-round-mustard-yellow-picasso-25.html

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Go to Beadaholique.com for all of your beading supplies needs!
This is Julie at www.Beadaholique.com. In this video
we're going to be learning how to make a wire Bird's Nest. You've
probably seen a lot of these out there in
the stores or online. They're quite popular right
now and they're really fun and easy to make.
For this project we are gonna need a pair
of flush cutters, we're gonna need a pencil
or any type of round dowel,
we need some round nose pliers,
chain nose pliers,
wire. I choose twenty-six gauge but you can choose
twenty-four or whatever you're comfortable working
with.
And three little beads. These are turquoise
because I like the color variation. I thought
they looked like robins eggs.
Now you can use pearls or any type of round beads.
These are six millimeter.
I've gone ahead and I've precut myself
five-feet of
the twenty six gauge wire.
You can use silver wire, gold or anything you
want depending upon the project.
I'm going to began
by taking my three
round beads
and string them on to the wire.
I'm gonna slide them down about three
inches.
At this point I'm going to just
create a little triangle with them
and
twist
two or three times. I don't need to do it that
often. I'm going to leave that tail out there and leave
that straight.
Now I'm going to do something with the rest of
my wire
which
is something that we never usually want to
do when beading and working with wire. I'm
going to purposefully try to
kink it. And to do that
I'm going to take my
pencil but you can use any type of dowel
And I'm going to wrap it around.
You can do this pretty quick.
What you don't want to
have happen is create a kind of
knot.
So
just pull that out.
That kink is fine but leaving an actual loop
but it's going to be hard to
pull through the wire when you're weaving
your
bird's nest.
So try to keep that in mind.
Now I'm going to pull that out.
Just smooth that out.
So now I have a nice wave
and I actually really like a messy bird's nest.
So I'm going leave about three inches here as well
but I'm not gonna overly kink. I'm just
going to go in here
and twist.
Again I'm not creating any type of loop but I'm
creating little kinks.
You're gonna take
the wire and
going
pretty close to the beads
you're going to wrap it around
in a circle
about five times.
You can do that more than five if you want. Five
is just a good
medium number to start with.
Also if you get too much more wraps
than five it's get a little bit hard to hold onto.
Now I've come back to my starting point and I need
to now secure those in place.
I'm just going to now
put it through
the first
space between my two beads.
I thread that all the way through
so it comes out the other side. One problem with
the kinky wire is that it does snag on different
things that you have
on your workspace. So kind of be aware of that.
It's going to catch on a lot of things. Pull that
through
and then I'm going to wrap it around. I'm going to go
back through there another time.
You're going to think I have too much wire and
you're going to be tempted to cut it but you're gonna be
thankful for that wire in the end.
Okay I did that through one of the joints
I'm going to go ahead
and do it through another one.
Again it's just coming out the back.
You can even go through the little
hole if that's easier for you.
I'm going to show you what to do so that you don't end
up with wire covering your
egg.
And when we get to that point you can just pull it
and they'll pull right
through.
Now we're going to go over
to the final one.
I've got all three ends
secure so now those five
wrappings that I did
are secure. You don't to have to hold them anymore.
So now I'm going to start working
on getting the base.
So here's my finished piece. You can kind of
see how I've done it there. To start that
process I'm going to make a little
loop in the middle.
I'm just going to wrap.
Just kinda go in circles.
You can do this
five times, ten times. How ever many time you
want to do it where you feel like you still
have control over the piece and it's not getting
away from you.
Once you feel like you've got
number of them there, just go ahead
take your wire
thread it through you're already secure
wrappings.
Basically you're just anchoring everything
that you do. Just don't want it to be able to
come undone.
I'm going to keep building
on my outer edge at the same time too.
Again it's really random.
You notice this side kind of got a little bit bigger
than the other side. So I'm going to squish that down.
Do a couple more loops.
Doesn't always have to be round loops. You can
kind of
make little
figure eights or whatever you want.
Just make sure that you can secure them down.
Just go in here at the edge and just
doing
this kind of gentle swooping loops
along the outer
circles.
When you get to the point where you have about
three inches left.
You're going to meet up with the other tail. It's about two
inches. It doesn't have to perfect.
So at this point you have a couple choices.
You can either make loop like this, which
is what I'm gonna do and that way it's just
all enclosed one piece.
You can go ahead and
fold these wires
under
and just tuck them into the bottom
wires and nesting.
And then you can attach a jump ring just
to one of the exposed wires if you want to
do that.
But for this project, just so that it's complete.
I'm going to go ahead and make
a wrapped wire loop at the top. The way and
I do that because I've got two wires obviously
and I just going to twist them together.
Using my flush cutters. I'm going to cut off
there because they were uneven
Now I'm going to
make a wrapped wire loop
using my twisted wires.
Using my chain nose pliers.
And there you have a Bird's Nest Charm.
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