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0:00:07.310,0:00:10.740 Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com
Today I'm going to show you how to do a wire
0:00:10.740,0:00:15.230 twisting method which is going to allow you
to make a floral spray such as this or if
0:00:15.230,0:00:18.700 you want to use the same technique and make
necklaces, key rings, whatever you like.
0:00:18.700,0:00:21.339 I'm going to show you how to accomplish this
look
0:00:21.339,0:00:24.210 using some wire and some seed beads.
0:00:24.210,0:00:27.759 the amount of wire you're going to need is
depended upon your project.
0:00:27.759,0:00:31.759 So what I'm going to do to help you kind of
gauge what you need.
I'm going to measure eighteen
0:00:31.759,0:00:32.940 inches
0:00:32.940,0:00:37.210 of wire and you're going to see just how much
of a floral spray that eighteen inches
0:00:37.210,0:00:39.650 will make in the end.
0:00:39.650,0:00:42.860 So eighteen inches.
I'm using twenty eight gauge wire.
0:00:42.860,0:00:47.330 You can use a heavier gauge wire if
you like.
I find twenty-eight gauge wire
0:00:47.330,0:00:51.800 to be the easiest to work with and it also
will go through a wide variety
0:00:51.800,0:00:56.070 of medium.
It'll go through seed beads, a lot of pearls.
Just gives more
0:00:56.070,0:00:57.550 flexiblity.
0:00:57.550,0:01:01.420 So I got eighteen inches here and I have
some
0:01:01.420,0:01:02.930 size 11/0 toho
0:01:02.930,0:01:06.920 seed beads.
0:01:06.920,0:01:08.299 So to begin
0:01:08.299,0:01:11.180 you're gonna go ahead and place however
many you want
0:01:11.180,0:01:15.460 onto your wire.
I like clusters of five but you could be more or
0:01:15.460,0:01:16.480 less.
0:01:16.480,0:01:19.660 It's a very free-form activity.
0:01:19.660,0:01:22.840 Once I have as many beads as I want
onto my wire
0:01:22.840,0:01:27.380 I'm going to scoot them down to the middle.
0:01:27.380,0:01:30.350 When they're at the middle I'm going to kink
it
0:01:30.350,0:01:32.430 and twist.
0:01:32.430,0:01:37.970 I'm going to make several twists
0:01:37.970,0:01:42.100 and really let the wire guide you.
Don't try to necessarily plan it out
0:01:42.100,0:01:44.890 exactly how you want this to look.
Let the wire
0:01:44.890,0:01:46.310 just flow.
0:01:46.310,0:01:47.840 so now to make a branch
0:01:47.840,0:01:48.850 I've twisted
0:01:48.850,0:01:50.200 and now I'm going to separate
0:01:50.200,0:01:51.780 my wire
0:01:51.780,0:01:54.360 I'm going to place five beads
0:01:54.360,0:02:01.360 two, three, four
0:02:02.630,0:02:04.400 and five.
0:02:04.400,0:02:07.470 Now I'm not gonna scoot them all the way
down to the end because look what
0:02:07.470,0:02:09.279 happens I'm right there up
0:02:09.279,0:02:12.489 against my other wire which could be one
look if you want it to but I want to actually
0:02:12.489,0:02:14.439 create a little branch.
0:02:14.439,0:02:17.519 I'm going to scoot them up
0:02:17.519,0:02:19.779 and then I'm gonna make a kink.
0:02:19.779,0:02:22.269 I'm just going to twist my wire around
0:02:22.269,0:02:23.339 and again
0:02:23.339,0:02:25.869 I'm just going to twist.
0:02:25.869,0:02:29.479 So when you start doing branches you
can't just keep twisting each time.
0:02:29.479,0:02:35.489 Eventually your wire's going to snap.
I'm actually just going to take my wire
0:02:35.489,0:02:38.659 and I'm going to wrap it a little
0:02:38.659,0:02:41.199 and then I'm going to want to create another
little branch.
0:02:41.199,0:02:44.139 So when I get to a point that I'm happy
with
0:02:44.139,0:02:46.709 I'm going to do one more wrap.
0:02:46.709,0:02:53.709 Add a few more beads.
One, two, three, four, five.
0:02:56.779,0:03:01.209 You can see in the example I was adding
pearls as well.
0:03:01.209,0:03:04.549 So again I'm not gonna have them go all the
way down the base.
I want them up a
0:03:04.549,0:03:07.229 little bit.
0:03:07.229,0:03:14.229 Just go ahead
0:03:14.879,0:03:18.099 twist
0:03:18.099,0:03:21.179 and I do like to just wrap it by hand
0:03:21.179,0:03:26.849 just because I don't want to put too much
strain on my wire itself.
0:03:26.849,0:03:29.819 So now I'm coming back to where I
started from.
0:03:29.819,0:03:31.519 So I'm just going to
0:03:31.519,0:03:36.889 go ahead and wrap this little piece of wire
right here until I get to this point
0:03:36.889,0:03:38.439 where my two wires
0:03:38.439,0:03:45.439 diverge in the first place.
0:03:46.439,0:03:48.269 There we go.
0:03:48.269,0:03:51.969 Now I'm going to go ahead and twist
0:03:51.969,0:03:52.939 again.
0:03:52.939,0:03:56.139 This is where the wires are just leading
me because I could meet another branch
0:03:56.139,0:03:58.679 going the other way
0:03:58.679,0:03:59.620 and actually
0:03:59.620,0:04:03.559 I think it would look nice to add a few little
beads to cover
0:04:03.559,0:04:04.919 my twist.
0:04:04.919,0:04:07.879 This is why again I like the
twenty eight gauge wire.
0:04:07.879,0:04:10.449 It does allow me the flexibility
0:04:10.449,0:04:12.219 to do a little
0:04:12.219,0:04:14.089 add on like this because
0:04:14.089,0:04:17.969 twenty-eight gauge is going to be thin
enough that it's going to be able to go
0:04:17.969,0:04:23.449 you're going to be able to get two wire tails
through a size 11/0 seed bead.
0:04:23.449,0:04:24.849 Scoot those up
0:04:24.849,0:04:29.389 and they're actually going to be able to go
over and the twist as well.
0:04:29.389,0:04:33.149 So now I've got my tails.
They're different lengths.
0:04:33.149,0:04:35.229 I'm going to try to pay attention to that
0:04:35.229,0:04:38.189 so I don't end up at the bottom or one
tail is super
0:04:38.189,0:04:40.999 short and one is super long.
0:04:40.999,0:04:43.889 So I'm going to make another branch the
0:04:43.889,0:04:50.889 same way I did the first.
0:04:53.810,0:04:54.929 I'm going to go here
0:04:54.929,0:04:57.740 that looks like a good spot to me.
0:04:57.740,0:05:04.740 You notice I'm not measuring.
I'm just letting it flow.
0:05:09.489,0:05:11.759 I'm going to do another one.
0:05:11.759,0:05:18.759 I've got those beads captured right there.
0:05:25.300,0:05:28.900 You see that was a little bit lower
which is fine.
0:05:28.900,0:05:35.900 I'm going to add some more.
0:05:40.289,0:05:41.889 And now
0:05:41.889,0:05:46.120 I'm going to twist my wire over to get back
to where my wires
0:05:46.120,0:05:53.120 diverged.
0:05:55.629,0:05:58.729 Remember last time when I got
to the diverged point.
I want it to just
0:05:58.729,0:06:01.810 twist them together.
This time I might actually want to make a little sprig
0:06:01.810,0:06:07.259 with this other tail.
0:06:07.259,0:06:09.990 You could be adding all sorts of
different needs at this point.
You could be
0:06:09.990,0:06:10.819 adding
0:06:10.819,0:06:17.819 Swarovski crystals, add pearls, you can
really let your imagination go.
0:06:20.259,0:06:22.050 Alright I'm going to add my last twist
0:06:22.050,0:06:28.409 my wire tail are pretty short now.
I'm going to do one more little sprig.
0:06:28.409,0:06:31.039 I'm going to see how much I ended up with.
0:06:31.039,0:06:38.039 I started with eighteen inches of wire.
0:06:39.909,0:06:42.179 Okay, that will do.
0:06:42.179,0:06:44.900 Bring the ruler back
0:06:44.900,0:06:47.080 and you'll see
0:06:47.080,0:06:50.890 we about an inch and a half of this density
of twistings
0:06:50.890,0:06:54.130 with eighteen inches.
So that's I'm to give you a good idea of how much you're going to need
for your
0:06:54.130,0:06:55.660 project.
0:06:55.660,0:06:57.349 If you're doing a project like this
0:06:57.349,0:06:58.800 I actually made five
0:06:58.800,0:07:03.710 separate sprigs so they all started like
this except for they had a longer tail
0:07:03.710,0:07:05.150 but I just twisted
0:07:05.150,0:07:08.990 in here to get them bond
altogether.
There's actually five
0:07:08.990,0:07:10.729 separate sprigs.
0:07:10.729,0:07:14.939 So I didn't have to make so many
far reaching branches and then I just
0:07:14.939,0:07:18.680 twisted them together and then wire wrapped
that ends.
0:07:18.680,0:07:22.499 You can see I added some pearls.
You can do a lot of different things with this technique.
0:07:22.499,0:07:25.519 So I hope this gives you a good starting point.
Just remember
0:07:25.519,0:07:29.959 let the wire lead the way don't try to
necessary plan out exactly how you want it
0:07:29.959,0:07:31.349 to look to start with.
0:07:31.349,0:07:34.800 You'll have a lot more fun if you just
let it free-form and enjoy the process.
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