My tip today will help you make the same size simple loops (see technique here), on any wire work project with lots of simple loops! If you are working on a piece of jewelry with multiple simple loops and the same size bead this tip works great. Bend the head pin at the top of one bead and cut it, leaving about 3/8”, and make your simple loop. Then use the cut off part of the head pin as a guide to measure where you should cut off the rest of your head pins with the rest of your beads. This way you end up with the same size of simple loops for all of your beads. I find it is best to do this in an assembly line, so I bend all the head pins, make all of the cuts and then make my loops. I hope that this tip works for you too!
Happy Tuesday! – Cody
(because I know your New Year’s resolution was to organize your beads!), you keep finding random stray beads leftover from projects that you made for gifts or holiday bazaars. And you probably think to yourself, “What on earth am I supposed to do with these random beads!” Don’t worry, there are all sorts of fun projects that you can make with those stray little buggers and you’ll even be impressed with how eclectic your jewelry will turn out! As you clean your beading table, just throw stray beads into a bin, and once you’re all done, here are a couple of project ideas you can do with them!
