DIY BEADED GLASSES CHAINS I How to use jewelry findings & create designs

hello and welcome to my channel i am Crafty Patty and I'm so glad you're here to watch another fun video if you're anything like me you always forget where your glasses are and I've been using this old cloth glass hanger for I don't know how long and I just needed something to just brighten myself up and put a little bling in my life so I have been making eyeglass holders and I've made it with the chain i've also made it with the wire and I hope you'll follow along to see how to make these gorgeous eyeglass hangers this one here is all with wire and just seed beads and I made another one that's more of a beachy theme and on this one I've added some little sea stars i've added some little teal uh kind of like rocks and pearly kind of ones and I'm just loving it so come along and watch and make some of these fun little I will say a little statement instead of the long earrings you get the long ling from your glasses hey why not eh come on and have some fun with me i will be showing you two different ways to make your eyeglass chain holders we're going to work with actual jewelry chain and we're going to work with actual wire which we added beads to i'm going to go over the length that we need for each one of these further on in the video because depending on how we design it will depend on how much jewelry chain that you will require this particular chain in the middle I'm guessing I'm not 100% sure but I'm guessing this is about a 2 millimeter this is close to two mill two millimeter as well and I'm guessing this is closer to a 3 mm and they come in different varieties of depending on what type of chain you like this particular chain it will open up with pliers so you can take out little sections to make little small sections or you can have larger sections the one thing you'll be needing for whether you make the uh wire or the chain is of course your eyeglass ends they come in usually clear or black or with the gold band or the silver band you can also get jewelry making kits that have all your findings that you will need and I will go over each of these to let you know what they are and the first jewelry finding here that comes in the kit here is called a culot and it's got a little tiny ball form with two holes on the end here and this is where you place your crimped end inside so there's no roughness when you're wearing your necklace and then once you've placed it inside these close up together and here's an example of that this one particular one used the ball chain and they've probably got the crimper inside here they squished it together and then you've got your little holes here to put your jump ring and then your eyeglass holder and this here is the little crimp bead cover once you've got your crimping done you can place this over the crimp area and then you just squish it together and it's like a little bead that's covering the sharper edge of the crimping so it's nice and smooth and next we have our jump rings they come in different sizes i like to have the little tiny ones for more dainty necklace or you can have a larger one they come in different sizes so I have a little bag of um jump rings here and it looks like they measure them in millimeters so these little ones are five and so when I put them on my little chart here I would say the little one that comes in this kit would be a four there's our fives and then we go up to maybe a six and maybe possibly a seven just to give you an idea on sizing [Music] hey next we have the little crimping bead this one here as you can see you can see how tiny that is and it's got the hole in the middle for the wire to pass through and it's soft enough that that will crimp down and hold your beads in place and next we have the little wire protectors and this is you can see the little channel on the top that's where the wire gets placed and it goes through the holes on the bottom there and that just protects the wire and keeps it nice and smooth sometimes they're called horseshoes and then the last one here we have your lobster clasp as you can see here so if you ever have these that break or whatever then that's an easy way to just take it off and replace it with a new one it's an excellent idea to pick up one of these little felt mats that contain all your beads and because it's got the felt back it tends to have it so the beads aren't rolling all over your table and losing them and it's got little tiny sections in here that you can organize your beads if you so desire the other thing that I've got on here is the eye pins they come in 1 in 1 and 1/2 and 2 in um these ones we don't have the blunt end on the bottom because I'm not doing an earring this one I'm going to show you how to use those and I'll give you an example is I've got the split ring here i've got the eye pin threaded on my beads and then bent the end over so it looks identical to the other side here so I can put another split ring on and then you can continue on with your design for your pliers it's really handy to have two smaller Joey pliers these ones have got the spring load on the inside so it will come open and shut easily we've got our wire cutters we have our round nose pliers because you'll want those for bending your wire into a nice round circle and we have our crimping tool and on your crimping tool you can see where it looks like a little lip shape or a heart shape the top of it that's your first part of your crimp and then after you've crimped there you come to here and you crimp again to fold it in half so you'll want your crimping tool as well and a pair of tweezers like this is very handy for grabbing out your jewelry bindings and then your hardest part will be deciding what kind of beads you want to use because there's a zillion out there and a different combination for whatever color you want i'm a teal girl i love the ocean so I tend to always go for my teals and just as an example on this particular one here this has approximately 260 pearl colored beads and it has 44 of the little teal ones and the length of this actually measures approximately 25 in i'll put the centimeters up on the screen not counting the eyeglass holder you can also add little charms if you like it's just endless so many fun things you can do with this here's the first design I'm going to show you i've got about 8 and 1/2 in of just necklace chain here and then on each end I'm going to do this design like so so I'm going to be having the eye pin in here to add my beads a jump ring and then I'm going to add a little small section of chain link and then repeat that design and I'm going to show you how to do that [Music] now this particular chain is very small so I'm going to show you on this one that you'll see that all these are just linked together and you can count out the amount of links that you want and then you can open them up how there's the the break in the the link so then you can just push it with your fingers or you can get another pair of pliers if that's easier for you but I'm trying to show you so I've got enough space in here that you can see what I'm doing so there I've opened it up you see so now I can just take that out and now I've got my little piece that I want to join my design with to close up that link so just bring it back again and close up the link that's closed up again now okay so we're going to finish the other end here to match what we've got on the side here grab your second pair of pliers and what I want you to do is I want you just to push back on my right this right plier here i'm pushing straight back don't pull open like this just back and forth this way and now we can slip that into the last link of our chain and we're also going to add an eye pin so slip that on as well and now taking your other plier we're going to just bring that right back so they join up together again like so sometimes you can hear a little click and then you definitely know that you've got them together and now for my design I've decided to do one clear bead i'm going to add on one of these peely kind of stone looking beads another clear one and another one of these and one more clear and that's my design that copies what I've already done on the other end now hold it down on the on the eye of your eye pin down on the end here so you can work with the top of your eye pin up here now taking your round pliers you're going to bend it towards you right at the tip so hold your round pliers right at the end bending it forward like so now take your needle sorry take your round pliers out come back in so you can grab on like so trying to turn it so you can see what I'm doing it's so tiny okay and then bend it in so to get that so you've got room enough to get that all the way in we're going to bring in your round pliers and you're going to bend it back so it makes a little hook then you can come back in and continue continue to roll that in so it meets your other wire you can come in with your pliers and just get that so it comes all the way in okay you can just come in with the round pliers and just bend it back a bit so it's more straight up and down for your pin and sometimes by holding it it's bending a little bit you can just push it back to where it needs to be we're going to repeat that again by taking another split ring and I quite often just use my fingers to pull it back slide that in to our one we just made and I'm going to add one of my little tiny pieces of chain like so and then push that back so they're joined together again so there's our first one and now we've got the little link and now we're going to repeat this process on the other end of this little chain part [Music] and here I'm adding my last little chain link and I'm going to add lobster clasp and now all you got to do is add the eyeglass holding so I'm going to use a little tiny 3 mm jump ring and I've added a little um starfish and I'm going to add that on just for a little bit more bling so I'm just going to bring it into my other jump ring here and that just helps it to dangle a little better rather than putting it directly into that one jump ring adding it to that jump ring and then we'll just close it up again there we go now I've got a cute little starfish to go to my little beach theme and the other advantage of only putting the embellishments on the sides is that it takes away from the weight and then you just have this chain that goes around the back of your neck here our first one that we made together we made from chain and using eye pins this time I'm going to show you how you can combine chain and wire let's talk a little bit about wire jewelry and craft wire comes in many different forms weights diameters and strands and how strong it is it's a little bit confusing so let's go over how to read an actual wire label first of all I'm going to go into how it says 21 strands well that's how many strands it's taking to make up this wire now let's say you had one that said seven strands well it's not going to be very strong and that's more for something that you do for using for like crafts then you might go up to another one that might be maybe 19 strands this one's 21 strands there's some that are even 49 strands which would be really really strong but you also want to think what are you going to put on this you have to have at the right diameter so let's get back into this one now now in diameter this one is a 014 in so that one is a pretty good standard for managing to um thread on seed beads so they've got a smaller hole and it goes up to 21 but this one is one I'm using today is 0.14 the next thing you're going to see is it's going to say either soft flex or it could say um dead soft or it could say half hard wire all these different things um so I think for our purpose of what we're making I would stay with the soft as you can see it's very soft pliable which is very easy for beading another thing to look for is this one as you can see is actually stainless steel so this is going to be a cheaper wire than if you actually got one that said sterling silver and of course the sterling silver is going to be a lot more expensive and the next thing is you can look for the test strength this one tests for 10 lbs which is plenty good for what we're using it for and as you can see over here it's good for soft materials like seed beads and freshwater pearls so for this necklace I'm going to start with about a 15 inch piece of chain this one is a little bit heavier than the last one I worked with with you and this is the design we're going to do our second one and the way I'm going to attach this to the chain and how I'm going to attach it to the other end will allow me to show you how to use these four jewelry findings i'm going to start by grabbing the end of my wire i still have it attached to my spool for now and we're going to take a kulot and we're going to place the wire through the hole in the back side of it and you can see where the little wings are pointing up that's the way you want to put it on and you can just let that slide down for now next we're going to add on a little crimping bead so we'll pass the wire through that crimping bead so let's slide the little crimping bead closer to the top it doesn't have to be all the way to the top because that's a little bit too finicky we can cut the rest off later and now you're going to come in with your crimping tool and you're going to place it in that first notch area and squeeze it shut and you can see how it has made a little kind of like a heart shape now you want that to turn so it's facing the other way to the next slot right there then you're going to squeeze it shut so it folds over on top of itself next just bring it down right to the end and use the end of your crimping pliers to squeeze it shut there's your little crimp i know it's so tiny i hope you could see all that now you can do a little test if you want you can pull on this and see if it's definitely staying put and it's definitely staying put and now we're just going to cut off the end of that wire because we don't need it and now let's bring up our colot that we put on first here it is here and that's going to come inside of the colot so that wire is hidden so we're just going to close that up and now we have a strong and a smooth fastener so what we need now is a jump ring to attach the chain to the colot and here I've opened up a jump ring and I'm going to add the last length of my chain to that jump ring and we'll also add the end of the colot that we just finished and we're going to add that on and then we can close up our jump ring and now we've got the wire attached to our chain and we can thread on our beads i'm now going to cut my wire off my spool and I'm going to cut it at approximately 8 in i was going to make an all silver one cuz I thought that would be really pretty and then I just thought it looked a little bit too Christmy which would be great for Christmas but right now it's not Christmas time so I've decided to put that little bit of blue in there again cuz I like my blues and that's what I'm going for here so I'll just copy this pattern onto this end here and I just started with uh two of these little tiny beads here and just using your wire you can just slightly bend your wire just a little just a little bit just enough to get a little bit of a curve in it just a little bit i use with my fingernails just so they bend a little bit and then it makes it easier for picking up the beads just two of those and then I'm going to come in with one of these beads and the other thing that I'm going to mention right now is that when you're choosing your beads for instance this one because it's a smaller hole than my bigger bead you want to make sure that your wire can come back through those beads to finish it off and yes this wire will fit through that bead and it will also fit through the round bead because I've already tested that the bigger bead and now I'm going to continue to put these beads on cuz I don't think you really need to watch all this cuz I think that would be boring for you and just actually a mention on beads if you can it's probably much better to get glass beads than it is plastic beads because plastic beads will fade in color in time and that would not be good and I've decided to choose this flat bead for in between the pattern and like I said I will just continue to thread those on and then I'll speed this up a bit and we'll get to the end part where I show you how we do the last findings to finish it [Music] off i've added the beads in the same sequence as the other side and now the next step is to grab your crimping bead and add that on to your wire and here I've got my wire guard and I'm going to come up through the left and then I'm going to feed it back down through the right okay so now we've got the wire guard on and we're just going to cinch this up a little bit more so it's a bit closer to my crimp bead but not so close that we can't get that threaded in and now I want to pass that wire back through the crimping bead and just so you can get this that wand started that's will help you because now what we want to do is we also want to pass it through a few of these beads as well so once you've got that one in there it's a little easier to get some more now so I'm going to now thread it through these three here see if I can get all three of them here we go there's all three of those and let's come through this black one and that's why saying you want to make sure that you can get your wire going through your beads for a second pass and it would be nice if I can get through this last blue one there we go now we have to make sure there's no gaps in our beads but you want it to have a nice draping so just come up to the top here again and just give it a little bit of a tug here and here i'm holding on here tugging it down so I've closed in the gap so I've still got a bit more up here on the f on the uh wire guard so just keep pulling it down and once you're happy with the the drape of uh the wire in your necklace you're going to come in with your crimping tools onto that first one here's your crimping bead right there right below the wire guard and we're going to crimp that again and you want it so the indent is on the right putting it into that second part of the crimper and folding it over upon itself once you've got it folded over come onto the end of your crimpers and do that extra little push together like so and now we're going to add our little crimp bead cover and to make it a bit easier you can close in on the wire guard and that will help you to get your crimped bead inside a bit easier and then when you've got your crimped bead inside the crimp bead cover just take your pliers and close it up that just looks like another little ball so then we can finish this up and just bring in these a little tiny bit more come down here to the end here and cut off that excess wire close to your bead think I got to get some new wire cutters and the last thing to do is to add your one more jump ring through your wire guard add on your eyeglass holder and close up your jump ring and voila you've now completed another one and there we have another way to make another beautiful eyeglass holder by using chain and wire combination and for more of a simple one that has beads all the way around I cut 40 in of the bead wire which is about 101.1 cm i like to use a smaller seed bead in the middle and then a larger one for the accent so it's not as heavy and I finished the ends off exactly the same way that we finished these ends off thanks so much for watching and staying with me and I would love to see what you create and the colors you choose cuz there's just so many beads out there and so many different designs that you can make so by all means send me a picture of your creations and have fun with it here's some more bling in your life 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