How To: Make a coiled top dangle with pliers for jewelry making

When it comes to making earrings or necklaces, you could take the easy way out and just add a normal head pin to the top of your bead or pendant. But what if you like to create motifs with the wire itself? A great way to start embellishing with wire is by creating this coiled top dangle, or a wrapped head pin.

Making this wrapped head pin starts off the same way as making a head pin, but you finish off by wrapping the extra wire around the head pin.

Crafty Quickies offer simple to follow craft basics instruction for the time and technically challenged. The Impatient Crafter™ Margot Potter hosts these quick and easy tutorials that show you how to get it right the first time. In this video she shows how to make a coiled top dangle.