How to Make Basic Wire Jewelry

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 Amanda Weeks will show you how to make beautiful wire jewelry. She will show you the tools you will need, talk about purchasing beads, how to travel with wire jewelry, and how to make clasp loops and hooks. She will also teach you how to make a wire butterfly, swirl, and a large and small diamond shape for wire hoop earrings. Amanda will even talk about the difference between store bought and hand made earring hooks, and about recycling beads before talking about connecting your wire butterflies in a chain and how to wire wrap beads for the beautiful wire jewelry you will be making after you watch this helpful video series.