Making rosary loops are less time consuming than wire-wrapps. A helpful hint to keep your loops the same size: work on the same area of your pliers. Mark it with a permanent marker and work just below this mark.
Project Level: Beginner Time to Complete: Depends on Project
Ingredients
- 1 or 2" headpins or eyepins.
- 4mm spacer beads
- 8mm beads of your choosing
Studio Essentials
- Needle-nose pliers
- Round-nose pliers
- Wire cutters
Slide your beads onto
a head or eye pin.
Manually bend the wire at a right angle on top of the bead.
Using a wire cutter or the cutter portion of rosary pliers, remove excess wire leaving about 3/8" of wire.
Find the place on your round-nose plier tips that is approximately 1/4" away from the end.
Using your round-nose pliers, approximately 1/4" from the tip, grab the very end of the wire.
Using your wrist, curl the wire towards yourself. Then, slide the pliers back into their original position. Curl the wire again.
Continue to curl until the wire forms a complete circle.
Double check to make sure the rosary loop is closed.
To open or close a rosary loop, lift the loop out of its plane. Do not pull the loop open sideways or you will distort its round shape.
Insert another rosary loop or ear wire. Close the loop using your needle-nose chain pliers. Make sure the tip of the wire fits snuggly against the bead to form a secure loop.
