Wire Wrapped Side Swept Elegant Pendant Tutorial Beginner

Hi everybody, it's Oksana and today I'm going to show you how to make this pendant style here. And if you follow me over on Instagram, you might have noticed that this is a style I do quite often. This has been a favorite of mine for a long time now and I think I'm finally ready to share it. So if you want to see how I made this, just keep watching. I'm starting out with three pieces of square dead soft 20-gauge copper and my cabochon is 1-inch oval. This is a rainbow moonstone. And what I'm going to do is I'm keeping this wire just on the spool so I can just take the end of it here and use it. And it is a 22-gauge which is 0.0125 and it is from Rio Grande. It's the half round wire. This is the one that I always use for everything. So I'm just taking my three wires right in the middle and I am just wrapping. Make sure they are lined up because it's square so they need to all be like nice and flat like this. And I am just going to wrap around a few times and then I'm going to trim my wire in such a way that these little ends are all on the same side. And then I'm going to squish it down with my pliers so that it is all nice and flat. So this will be the inside, the part that touches the stone. This will be the outside. So I'm going to just go ahead and use my finger to kind of start a curve and then I'm going to take my stone, put it in and this is easier if you lay it down on a flat surface. I just can't do that due to my filming setup. But I'm just bending this around the stone and because this is an oval, I'm going to leave a little bit of a gap here up top. And I'm putting a little bend in my wires so that I can bring them together like this. And just make sure that it is nice and centered. And then you can remove the stone to use pliers to just kind of press these together so they're tighter. And now we're going to go back to this connecting wire, the 22 gauge half round. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the end of it and I'm going to wrap it in this direction. The rest of it is still connected to the spool so don't cut it yet. So I'm just taking the end of it and I'm wrapping it several times around all of the wires. Then you want to designate a front and back to your piece. So this is my front and this is my back just because that's the way I bent it around the stone. So this little end, I cut it and now I'm taking this little end and I'm on the back and I'm tucking it this way. And then I am flattening it down so that it's tucked away. And then from the front, you can't even see it. So what I'm going to do now, this is my front, is I am going to take the two wires, the front most wires, like this. I'm going to bend them forward. So it's this wire coming in the very front and this wire here as well. It's these two wires. And then here on the back, I have the other two wires on one side and then the other side. So I'm just kind of separating into three bundles of two wires each. So what I'm going to do is these two wires that are on my front part of my pendant coming towards me, is I'm going to take this thin wire. I'm just continuing the loop, the wrap. And once I get to here, I'm going to wrap around just these two wires. That's why you kind of want to bend them forward so that that gives you the room to really get in there and wrap around. Okay. And you want to do this until you are satisfied with the height of your bail, because this is going to be your bail. And when you're done, you're just going to trim your wire in such a way that this little end ends up pointing towards the back. So it's hidden on the back. So mine is like a little twisted. I mean the whole entire piece here. So I'm just going to flatten it. And as I flatten it, I am untwisting it a little. And people ask me a lot about like the little nicks that get left in the wire sometimes from when you're using your pliers. So I noticed that the really small ones tend to just get removed when I oxidize and polish up the copper. Then you kind of can't see them anymore. But for bigger ones, like if I just really accidentally made a big deep scratch in my wire, then I would use maybe some sandpaper to try and get that out. So what I'm going to do now is I'm going to bend my bail. You can use bail making pliers or you can use just round nose pliers. But I'm just going to bend this by hand. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to tuck these ends inside of the frame. And I'm just using this, the pliers to just kind of guide this. Like that. I'm going to squish it just the tiniest bit. There we go. So now these two wires that are coming through the front, I'm going to take the rightmost one and I'm going to really try to get in there and trim it in such a way that that wire end is just really in here in this little gap. And then you can't feel it because it's not sticking out. And we're going to cover that up so you won't be able to see it. But I also just don't want it to stick out. So now with the other wire, the one we did not cut, I am bringing it around and to the back and I'm wrapping it basically so my bail is connected to something so that it can't move out of place. And then I'm trimming it and I'm taking this little end and I'm tucking it and pressing that down. I'm just going to squish in that whole thing down. All right. So the next thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to take these wires here on the right side and I'm going to bring them up just kind of straight up trying to follow the bail. So I guess like straight up and also a little forward because I don't want to cover up this hole because this is the bail and we need the chain to fit through it. So here it is on the front. So I want it to be kind of towards the top here and at the top portion I'm going to bend them like this. Now I'm holding it and pressing with my index finger so that I can turn and make this sort of bend shape and then I'm pressing here with my thumb so that the whole thing doesn't move when I bend these ends. So I'm holding it here with my thumb and then I'm bending the ends this way. And then here on the back I am trimming these two wires and then I'm taking the ends with my Xuron pliers and I am squishing them down in there. Okay now this next part I do this in a lot of different ways for a lot of variation but basically you can twist one or both of these wires if you wish or you can use a half round wire and wrap around one or both of these or use different sizes of the half round wire or even use a round thin weaving wire and make a weaving pattern around these two. There's really a lot of variation in terms of decorating these two wires before we put them in their position. But what I'm going to do which is a common thing for me is I'm going to take the half round wire and I'm going to take this wire here so this is the front most wire this one and I'm going to wrap the half round wire just the same 22 gauge half round wire. Oh you can also put those little beads on there as well those little two millimeter beads that I used in my previous video for a different project. So I'm just wrapping this wire around and around and at one point when it is slightly longer you're going to want to trim that little end and you're going to want to press that down but gently because we still need this to slide. So now I'm going to slide it down and now I'm going to hope that when I continue twisting it sometimes the whole thing will twist around so you're not going to be adding more wraps so you're just like twisting it and the thing just moves around and around. In that case you have to press it down a little with your pliers to try to get it tight around the square wire so that it doesn't turn every time that you do this but for me it seems to be not doing that this time because I think I've wrapped enough times. If you wrap enough times it usually just kind of stays in place once you push it down there. So what I'm doing is I am continuing this until it is long enough to go across the front like this. So what you want to do is when you think you might be getting close I've done this so many times look I've gotten it just the right size but when you think you're getting close just bend it in that direction and just see how you're doing and now I'm just pinching that little wire and I cut it and I tucked it away okay and I'm bending it here's what it looks like in the front and in the back same thing as I did with those wires right above it trimming it pressing it down and squishing it and what you can do because you can kind of see those wire ends there is just try and get them pushed up towards the bail so there isn't big gaps so they take up less space and now this wire here I think I'm gonna go ahead and twist this one actually all right so I'm gonna twist it and then I am just putting it right next to my other wire here and so you can trim this and tuck it in option one option two you can continue it this way bend it this way and then trim and tuck it here from the front so if you do that you're going to have just like an additional little detail where you see that here or you can bring it all the way across the front it just really depends on the look that you're going for I'm going to go with the very first option where I just trim it right away and just tuck it here okay so now we're going to work on hiding these little ends here and I'm also thinking of potentially cutting it I'm just a little bit shorter so I'm going to kind of open up that loop and trim just the tiniest little bit off of that all right press that flat okay so I think I'm happy with how that looks from the front it's time to put the stone in and what I like to do is just hold it in place and then go to the back take these back most wires and bend them onto the back of the stone to trap the stone in from the back still holding it though because it's not trapped from the front so we can fall out the front so now I'm gonna take these front wires I'm gonna separate them out with my nail like this and then I'm gonna go in with my pliers just really in here and make a little bend on both sides and then I'm gonna press that down because there's a gap so I'm pressing the wire down so it's lying flat on my stone then I'm gonna check my stone to make sure that it's far enough on the side here that it's gonna trap my stone in because cabochons are domed so they kind of get smaller and smaller as they go this way so if the wire is high enough on the side it'll trap it in and it won't come out so mine seems to be stable so that is it it is completed the only thing I want to add is if you find that you maybe pull a little too hard and when you do this top decoration after you've done it when you go back to put in your stone and you notice that your frame kind of got all maybe you smooshed it a little bit as you were holding it and it got distorted or maybe you pulled on these wires a little too hard and that kind of pulled this wire through and made you know the shape and size of your frame different and your stone's not fitting in really good what you want to do if that's the problem you run into is you want to put your stone in first and secure it like I did and then so at that point you would have your stone in and secured but these wires would just be sticking up here and well you would have made your bail but the other wires would be sticking up so then you would secure the stone make sure it fits make sure it's good and then go back and do this part so just a little tip if that's a problem that you're running into so that is it thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time bye