Hi! This Megan with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you
How to Use the Wig Jig Spiral Maker
this is
the Wig Jig Spiral Maker
a handy little doodad here
and it works with
many of the Wig Jig. There are two different sizes for
the two different size holes that come on the Wig Jig. So I have the Centaur
and I have a
the spiral maker that
is compatible with that
this is a spiral that I made
with the spiral maker. It's really handy
it's very easy to use
start with
a length of wire and it does work best with a dead soft wire
straighten out my wire first
it's always best to start with your wire nice and straight
before you
bend it up
makes it easier to work with
if you can see there are
four little holes next to the little peg on the spiral maker
so those are going to accommodate your wire and you fit the wire into the
smallest hole it'll fit i. So there's two smaller ones and two larger ones
I had eighteen gauge, it's about the biggest it's going to fit in the
smaller hole
you bring your wire
up through the hole
all the way but not sticking out just so where you can feel it poking you in the thumb
but don't poke yourself too hard
and then bend
the wire against the
edge
of the spiral maker
then fit the spiral maker into the hole of the jig
push that down
to really get that bend in there
and now the spiral maker is going to be sitting on the wig jig separated only
by the width of that wire there
we're going to flip it over so you can see through and see what's going on
under there
I'm going to
hold your fingers against the wire and let feed through but keep the
tension nice and tight on there
and just
bend
the wire by turning your spiral maker
if you keep your tension too tight here you'll get kind of an oval
you do want to keep it tight enough
that it doesn't get messy
so the first
way that you can do this, you always wanna start by turning
spiral maker to do the first part of the turn, you can continue to do that, you
just need to make sure that you're holding this
really firmly against the wig jig because you wanna make sure that your spirals
as they loop around that they stay flat
and that they don't double up
so you can do it this way. Another way to do it would be to hold this together
really firmly
bend the wire around
important part is just to make sure that as you work
that the new row is going to the outside
and not overlapping
it can be a little
challenging
so if you were to use harder wire it wouldn't stay in a nice tight spiral, it
would spring back more. You want to use a dead soft
just continue to wrap
around
until your spiral is the size that you want. You are going to need to stay
within the size of the spiral maker
otherwise it won't stay flat for you
pull the peg off
and now you have
this nice flat
wire spiral which can be challenging to get it
all the way flat like that
so you have a tail going this way
and you have to tail this way. So however you want to use
this piece in your
this component in your piece will
determine
which of these you're going to use
you can make a loop with this k_l_p_ sticking up if you want to hang this way
court as I did in this one you can make a living with this tail piece here
and just click off whichever pieces you're not going to use
she could use the says
and angola charm nearing
anything like that and
we could hang out that way
nesties
espera maker for the weekend