Daily Archives: October 20, 2026
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In this tutorial, you will create a shaped and hammered pendant frame for two stones. You will add decorative wire ‘pressure pins’ onto the frame while locking in your stones. This is a very basic tutorial, showing the step by step process to create this style of wire wrap. You can add more decorative wires as you create and style your own Sacred Heart Pendant. This is a great tutorial for learning the basics of beginning symmetry in wirework. Certainly, wraps get more complicated and much more precise but this is a wonderful, stress-free wrap to get you started. It’s a beautiful pendant pattern for all skill levels. I hope you enjoy this beautiful pendant design for your heart shaped stones!!
Wire Wrapping TUTORIAL – Mini Pendant using a single half round wire.
Learn to use a single 15 inch, half round wire to create this beautiful heady wire wrapped pendant frame. This is a wonderful one wire mini pendant technique, but it’s a bit harder than it might look at first.
In this wire wrapping technique, you will learn how to create, what I call my Processus pendant frame. It’s a continuous, one wire, flow to create both the frame structure and the design elements. I hope you have fun! Please leave a comment and let me know what you think of this style.
I’m using 15 inches of 16 gauge half round, half hard, sterling silver wire. Because the wire is larger, you can also use dead soft wire. You can also use 18g half round and a slightly smaller stone.
The cab is a sweet little Labradorite 12mm height x 9mm wide x 5mm depth.
Half round wire (for the newbie) is flat on one side and has a dome on the other side. Meaning this wire has a ‘direction’ that it needs to face all the time while you’re building this pendant.
Half round wire is also a bit hard to bend on it’s edge. It tends to want to turn on you during the curve, so sometimes, you need to keep it flat and facing the right direction.
NOTE: Until your wire passes your stone a few times, the stone will be very loose while working, so be sure to protect it and work over a pad and a well lit surface.
Another great article by Perfectly Twisted Jewelry.
Wires used for jewelry making come in many shapes, sizes, and metal types. If you’re interested in wire wrapping, wire weaving, or simple wire and metal beaded jewelry, read on to learn about your primary material! There’s more to making beautiful jewelry than just wrapping some wire around a rock. The wire has a life, a flavor… a feel to it. It has behavior and a temper. Enjoy the article and enjoy your wire arts!
How many hours…? And then what happens?
I decided to write this short article on some simple reminders about body and posture while at the jewelry table. We all know that eventually, the joy and passion of jewelry creation will work it’s way from the beading table over to the computer desk. We love to share, blog, learn more and then sell our work which means you can bet on it, that you will be here too.
I get many emails asking what it takes to get started in this beautiful art form. That’s much more of a loaded question than one might realize as this art form, is about as endless as imagination itself. :))
Having said that, I’ve decided to give a post on what I consider to be the very basics and how to figure out exactly where that ‘start point’ might be….
I’ve been reorganizing my studio since the whole Covid thing shut my hands on teaching down… and I found some old silver wire, much of which took on a nasty tarnish… needless to say, I should have stored it better but such as life, I didn’t. I don’t care for chemical to clean my wires for jewelry making, so here is an easy at home solution…
