All About Wire Jewelry

Series Summary

Do you have an idea for a beautiful necklace design? From earrings and bracelets to single stranded and elaborate multi-stranded necklaces, creating your own jewelry is fun, easy to learn, and can even be done at home. All it takes is the desire to create, the willingness to learn, and finally practicing your newly acquired craft. Making your own jewelry is a fun way to express your creative fashion talents. Whether you want to work with beads, stones, gems, metals, hemp or any other material, the basic construction methods are fairly simple. Custom handmade jewelry also makes a fine gift for birthdays or holidays.

In this free video series, our expert Melissa Weeks will show you how to make wire jewelry. She will teach you about pendants, wire, clasps, how to make earring hooks, and all about circle, swirl, and triangle accents for bracelets & necklaces. She will also show you the different types of headpins, teach you about bracelet and necklace length, and teach you how to insert beads in to different wire shapes for jewelry. She will teach you all about crimping beads, attachment bars, and jump rings before showing you how to make wire jewelry by coiling wire and using pliers to coil wire. Melissa will even show you how to pick beads for your wire jewelry!

Video Transcript

"Today we're going to talk about the different type of pendants that you can have for a necklace. A pendant is something that makes or breaks any necklace. It gives it the accent that you'll want to the part that makes everyone look at it. Right here, I have different types of pendants. This right here is kind of a sun pendant. It's a dremeled out bead with a sun wrap, which makes it very easy to wrap and it gives it a very distinct accent. This is a store bought pendant that has a sun and a moon on it. It's got a very strong hook there, so that is great for whenever you're going to hook that to your necklace. This is a wire wrapped necklace. It's wire wrapped and it also has that dremel there. It's a very nice piece for a necklace. This is also a wire wrapped piece. It's very small, but it gives the wire gives it that little bit of accent, and it also has a hook at the top. This is a bead based necklace hook. Then you have the bead that has a hole in it, which is fabulous. It makes it really easy and makes it easy to make a necklace."