A foal nugget and aent drops of red oral are a bold splash of olor. The bakground neklae features a more subtle palette of turquoise beads.
WIREWORK Falling leaves Form an asymmetrial wire neklae in the spirit of autumn designed by Lilian Chen FCT-MW-0036_03 Create stylized leaf shapes using wire s natural urve. While your tehnique needs to be preise, the design s beauty is that is mimis the randomness of fallen leaves. stepbystep Wire generally omes oiled. To reate fluid urves, don t straighten the wire. Instead, gently work with its existing urves to reate eah bend. To determine length, use a flexible measuring tape or hold a piee of string along the wire and then measure the string. Piee [] Cut a 7-in. (8m) piee of 6-gauge wire. Measure 8 in. (3mm) from one end, and using figure as a template, line up that point with point a. Grip the wire with your hainnose pliers at point b, and make a bend (photo a). [2] Grip the longer wire a b 2007 Kalmbah Publishing Co. This material may not be reprodued in any form without permission from the publisher. 6 in. (2mm) beyond where the shorter wire meets it, and reate a sharp bend at point (photo b). The end should extend just beyond the previous urve (point d). [3] Create small hooks on the ends (points a and d) by bending eah wire end over the tip of your roundnose pliers (photo ). Trim any exess wire. Attah the hooks where they overlap the form. Adjust them, and squeeze eah losed with your hainnose pliers (photo d). MATERIALS neklae 8 in. (46m) 2 5mm foal bead 2 5mm top-drilled drop beads 3mm silver nugget bead 2 4mm silver spaers S-hook lasp yd. (.9m) 6-gauge sterling silver wire, half-hard 3 4 in. (8.3m) 20-gauge sterling silver wire, half-hard 6 in. (5m) 24-gauge sterling silver wire, dead-soft 0 in. (25m) sterling silver hain, links large enough to fit three jump rings 2-in. (5m) sterling silver head pin 23 6mm jump rings 2 silver rimp overs nonpermanent marker hainnose pliers roundnose pliers wire utters faetjewelry.om
EDITOR S NOTE: Perhaps you know the arpenter s adage measure twie, ut one. With this projet, measure twie and bend one. Use your ruler to measure arefully so you keep re-bends to a minimum, and you ll have muh leaner lines in your neklae. If you re new to wireworking, pratie with opper before using expensive silver. Addie d f e g h i j Piee 2 [] Cut a 3-in. (33m) piee of 6-gauge wire. Loate the enter of the urved wire and draw a light referene dot with a marker. Make a dot 3 in. (7.6m) to the right of the entral dot, and another 2 2 in. (6.4m) to the left of it. Using figure 2 as a template, shape piee 2 as follows: With the ends of the wire urving away from you, grip the far right dot with your hainnose pliers. Push the end over the pliers to make a sharp bend at point b (photo e) so that the wire end touhes the enter dot at point a. [2] Grip the far left dot with your hainnose pliers, and bend the left side in the same way at point (photo f). Adjust both ends until they meet at the enter dot. [3] Leaving 8 in. (3mm) of overhang, trim eah end. Create a hook on eah end. Hook the ends over the entral portion of the wire. Position them approximately 6 in. (2mm) apart at points a and d. Lok their position by using hainnose pliers to gently squeeze the hooks tight. Piee 3 [] Cut a 3-in. (33m) piee of 6-gauge wire. Continue using figure 2 as a template to shape piee 3 as follows: Using hainnose pliers, grip the wire 2 in. (5m) from one end, and reate a bend at point f so that the shorter end overlaps the longer end at point e. [2] Create a small hook on the shorter end, and attah it to the longer wire at point e to make a leaf shape. Squeeze the hook to lok it in plae. [3] Grip the longer wire just above point e, and bend against the urve about 30 (photo g). Do not straighten the remaining wire it needs to retain its natural urve. [4] Using your roundnose pliers, grip the wire 8 in. (3mm) above point e. Wrap the wire, front to bak, around one tip of your roundnose pliers, forming a loose loop. The wire should urve to the left (photo h). [5] Attah the loose loop of piee 3 to the enter of piee 2 (photo i). Using hainnose pliers, gently pinh the loop losed. [6] Grip the working wire about 4 in. (0m) from the enter loop, at point g, and bend it to form a larger leaf shape that frames piee 2. [7] Form a hook at the end of the wire at point h, trim any exess wire, and attah the hook to the base wire between point e and the loop you made in step 4 (photo j). Adjust the hook, and squeeze the hook to lok it. Assembly [] Open three jump rings (How-Tos) and attah them to the lower left portions of piees 2 and 3. Close them (photo k). [2] Attah three jump rings to the three entral vertial wires. Use hainnose pliers to lose two rimp overs over the lower left wire of piee 3 (photo l). [3] Cut two 4 2-in. (.4m) piees of hain. Attah three jump rings to one end of a piee of hain and to piee 3 at figure 2, point g (photo m). Repeat, using three jump rings to onnet one end of the other hain to piee at figure, point.
k l m n o Lilian Chen began beading five years ago to fill her time in a newly empty nest. She now works at, and teahes her designs at Bead Soure in Aradia, CA. p q [4] Attah three jump rings to piee at figure, point b. Attah two jump rings to piee 2 at figure 2, point b. [5] Use three jump rings to onnet the five jump rings from step 4 (photo n). [6] Attah three jump rings to the three onneting rings from step 5, making sure that they hang below the onneting rings (photo o). [7] Use roundnose pliers to make a small loop at one end of a 3 4-in. (8.3m) piee of 20-gauge wire. Grip aross the loop with hainnose pliers, and bend the wire around to form a small oil that s about 4 in. (6mm) aross (photo p). [8] Using roundnose pliers, make a loop next to the oil. Attah that loop to the end of a hain (photo q). [9] Make another oil with the remaining wire, going in g Piee d b FIGURE a a d e h f FIGURE 2 Piee 3 b Piee 2
r s Jump rings are used in this neklae to onnet forms and to help oneal onnetions. the opposite diretion. Adjust the wire so that the oils lie lose together. [0] Attah an S-hook lasp to the remaining end of the other hain. Dangles [] Cut a 3-in. (7.6m) piee of 24-gauge wire. Center a top-drilled bead on it, and make a set of wraps above it (Basis). Repeat to make a seond dangle. Attah one dangle to piee 3, to the left of the rimp overs. Complete the wraps, wrapping the wire over the top of the bead. [2] Attah the seond dangle to the far right jump ring from step 6 of the assembly (photo r). [3] On a head pin, string a spaer, a foal bead, a spaer, and a 3mm bead. Make the first half of a wrapped loop. Attah the loop to piee 3 at point f (photo s), and omplete the wraps. w