Beaded Wine Glass Charms Hostess Gifts Home Decor DIY Tutorial

I'm going to show you how to make this very cute DIY project, great gift idea. It's little wine glass charms that look like a bunch of grapes. And so the materials that you're going to need for this project are some four millimeter beads, about 28 to 30 beads, a ruler, a lid from like a little yogurt pot or something, but it should be the color green, and some green wire, that's 20 gauges, and then all your tools. So how we're going to do the project is I'll move these over to the side, and what you're going to do first is measure your wire, and the wire needs to be about 15 inches long. So we're going to measure 15 inches of the 20 gauge wire, and we'll get that a little clip, and then what you want to do is bend the wire at about six inches. So we're going to measure six inches and give it a bend. Okay, so that's going to be where we start the beading. So you're going to leave the six inches like that, and then on the other side we're going to put on the little round beads, and like I said, you're going to put on about about 28 to 30 of the beads. So once you have about four inches of beads on there, it might, the number of beads might vary depending on how many, you know, how big the beads are. So then at that point, this is a little bit the tricky part, because what you want to do is you want the shorter wire to go up, and then you want to start with one bead on the end. So the beads don't fall off, just do a little loop on the ends so they don't fall off. So bend this on a bit of a, on a bit of a right angle, and have a little bit of give there, and then what you want to do is actually twist the wire all the way around so it looks like two beads above the one bead, and then at that point you just want to keep rotating, rotating them around, and this part could be a bit tricky. You want to make sure you let the beads have a little bit of give, otherwise the wire isn't going to bend very well. So we're just going to kind of gradually spiral around that main wire, and as always it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, but the idea is to have the spiral get a little bit bigger as you wind around. Start small and gets a little bit bigger, and you can kind of wiggle it around a bit to see, like that, okay, and then once you get to the end you're going to just twist the end around a complete, one complete time like that, okay, and then at this point you can kind of adjust it so it looks how you want it to look, sort of like a tapering up of the beads, okay, so you've got that, and then to make the leaf I'm actually going to use a piece of that lid that we were talking about, so there's the lid there, so we're going to use a little piece like that, and you can actually just cut it with scissors. You can draw a grape leaf shape on first if you want. I'm going to kind of freehand it a bit because I've already made a few, so I know what it looks like. You can always google search grape leaves on the internet to have an idea of what they look like, so we want it sort of more or less the right shape of a grape leaf. There's a little kind of a nick in there too, so you've got your little grape leaf like that, and then we actually have to poke a little hole in the plastic so that we can put the wire through it, so you're going to get a safety pin and just poke a little hole like that, and then what we're going to do is on the shorter end of the wire we're going to stick it through the hole like that, and then we're going to bend it back like that, and then give it another full twist around the big wire, and then what you want to do is make your spiral in the stem, so we're going to get our round pliers and we're going to spiral it around. Now if the end's a little off, you can just clip it a bit to make sure it's even, and we're going to take the round pliers, give it a twist like that. Once you start the twist, then you can just by hand kind of twist it like that, and then for the part that goes around the wine glass stem, you're going to, same thing, you can cut it flush to make sure it's nice and clean, and then we're going to give it a twist to make the initial turn, and then you can continue a little bit to get the spiral going, and then I just find it it's much easier just to do it by hand, and then this spiral you want to make quite a bit looser because it's actually going to hook onto the wine glass. It's quite a bit bigger like that, okay, so then here's your finished charm, and how it goes on the glass is we'll bring this glass over here, there's our other one there, and we'll just tip it over, and you just kind of push it around the stem, and it's the wire's flexible, so you can kind of push it together a little bit, how you see fit, and there is your little wine glass charm.