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Making Spiders with Wire and Beads

Summary: This spides made of wire and beads can either be used as decoration for the coming Halloween’s Day to freak out your friends or used to make spider jewelries, such as spider pendants or earrings.

Date : Oct 24, 2011

This spides made of wire and beads can either be used as decoration for the coming Halloween's Day to freak out your friends or used to make spider jewelries, such as spider pendants or earrings.

The materials needed are wires, one bead in 8mm,?one bead in 12mm, 32 bugle beads, 40 seed beads, wire cutters, chain-nosed pliers, round-nose pliers.

Once the materials are done preparation, follow the steps below to handmade the unique spider.

1. Cut wire into 4 pieces of 4 inches long and one piece in 2 inches long.?

2. Make a small loop on the end of a 2 inch piece of wire and slip on an 8mm bead.

3. Group the four 4 inch pieces of wire together. Hold onto the 2 inch piece and use pliers to wrap the group of wires around this piece. Then use the pliers to squish the wrapped part of the wires close together.

4. Spread out the wires to ensure that there are four on either side of the 2 inch piece.

5. Slip on the 12mm bead to the wire of 2 inches and push it tightly against the wrapped wires. Cut off excess wire and make a small loop. If you want to use the spiders only for decoration, press the loop flat against the bead. If the spiders will be used to make spider jewelry, such as spider pendant, you do not need to press the loop flat.

6. Now slip the seed beads and bugle beads onto the?"legs"?of your spider. Make sure they are snug up against the body of the spider. There are 5 seed beads and 4 bugle beads for each of the 8 legs of the spider. Each bead alternates: seed, bugle, seed, bugle, etc. ending with a seed bead.

7. After adding the beads to the first leg, cut off excess wire and use the round nosed pliers to make a tiny curl at the end of the wire to secure the beads. Flatten the curl using flat nosed pliers. Repeat this for all 8 legs.

8. The basic assembly of the spider is now complete. The final step is to curve and bend the legs so that your spider can stand up.

Tag : round nosed pliers

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