The next time you are eating Chinese food out, make sure you ask for some of those free, wooden chop sticks they have, but don’t eat with them. Instead, tuck them away so you can use them for this easy wire project.
1 wooden chop stick
wire cutters
round nosed pliers
assortment of colored wire (I used 20 gauge purple for the primary wire and 26 and 28 gauge purple and pink for the accent wires.)
toothpick
ruler
1. Start by cutting about a foot of your accent wire and wrapping it around a toothpick making sure to leave about 2 inches free.
5. Now take your primary colored wire and leave it on the spool. I don’t know exactly how much wire you’ll need, so it’s better to keep it on the spool for the next few steps and cut it off when you’re almost finished.
6. Take about 1-2 inches of the colored wire and hold it against the thicker end of your chop stick. For the purpose of demonstration, I used a piece of tape in order to scan in a picture here, but you would use your finger instead of tape.
9. Continue to wrap the chop stick making sure to enclose the end of the bouquet.
11. Once you have reached the top of the chop stick, then start to wrap back down in the opposite direction.
13. Insert the end of the wire through the two loose wraps.
15. Make a few more wraps.
16. Now trim off more wire but leave a few inches.
17. Use round nosed pliers to make a coil at the end of the wire.
19. Now use your fingers to adjust our colored coils at the top of the chop stick. Move the coils where you want them and bend the coils a little so they are not sticking straight up.
All graphics created by Tammy Powley.