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How to Make Memory Wire Jewelry

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Memory Wire Jewelry

Memory Wire Jewelry

Tammy Powley
Follow these simples steps to make your memory wire bracelet, ring or necklace: 1. Using memory shears, cut off about two or three full loops of your memory wire.

2. Next, using your round-nose pliers and elbow grease, make an unwrapped loop at one end of the coil you just cut off.

3. String your beads in any pattern you’d like. You may want to use a bead board to determine your design before you start stringing.

4. Repeat step 2 on the other end of the coil.

That's all there is to it. The memory wire necklace pictured was made using blue glass beads, hematite beads, base metal beads, and the primary beads are garnet chip beads. To add a little more to a design like this, you could also make bead dangles and add them to the loops on either end of the jewelry piece.

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