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Cut a 10cm length of turquoise knitted wire using your wire cutters.
Using your fingers or a pair of chain nose pliers, twist roughly 1cm of knitted wire at one end as tight as you can.
Cut a 22cm length of 0.8mm silver plated copper craft wire and wrap it around the bottom of your twisted knitted wire. Leave around 3cm excess at one end, this is going to help you grip the wire better so you get a tight wrap. You can use your fingers to do this or two pairs of pliers to pull it tight.
Once that first wrap is tight, use your chain nose pliers to wrap the 3cm of wire around the bottom. Trim off any sharp bits and tuck in with your pliers.
Continue wrapping the longer length of wire above until you reach the top of the twist. Make sure you keep the width even as you go.
Using your chain nose pliers, straighten the wire so its now sitting vertical in line with theknitted wire.
Now take your round nose pliers and bend the wire to one side creating a 90 degree angle.
Wrap the wire back around the top jaw of the round nose pliers. When you can't go any further reposition the pliers so the bottom jaw sits in the loop then continue pulling it round so it Crosses over the stem.
Make 3 more wraps of the wire back down over the previous layer at an angle, leaving equal gaps in between each wrap.
Then do two more wraps back up. This creates a nice crossover effect.
Do one full wrap of the wire around the top, just beneath the loop.
Trim off any excess and tuck in with your chain nose pliers.
Insert the freshwater pearl into the knitted wire mesh tube and push up all the way to the top so it's sitting just below the wire wrapping. Gently pull apart the knitted wire at each side and Shape with your fingers so it creates a rounded edge.
Cut a 30cm length of 0.5mm silver plated craft wire and make 4 or 5 wraps around the base of your 0.8mm wire. Do this as you did before, closer to one end and using your pliers to pull tight if you need to. Trim off any excess on the shorter side and tuck in with chain nose pliers. Then start to push the longer length of wire down through the beadholein the freshwater pearl. Pull it through slowly and try not to let your wire distort too much as you go.
Once the wire is pulled all the way through, pinch the knitted wire together underneath the pearl bead and tightly wrap a 5mm length downwards, then make 3 or 4 wraps back up leaving equal spacing as you did before. When you get back up to the top, make two wraps to secure then trim off the excess and tuck in with chain nose pliers.
Insert 3 x 6mm Violet Swarovski Crystal bicones into the knitted wire tube and push up towards the wire you just wrapped. Position them so there are two at the top sitting side by side and one underneath.
Cut a 15cm length of 0.5mm silver plated copper wire and as you did previously, wrap around the knitted wire just under the beads above,closer to one end of the wire and using your pliers to pull tight if you need to. Trim off any excess on the shorter side and tuck in with chain nose pliers. Now continue to wrap downwards untilyou have wrapped 3-4mm of the knitted wire, then wrap back up and around the top twice to secure. Trim off any excess and tuck in with your pliers. You should now be left with a length of knitted wire underneath.
Trim off the excess knitted wire mesh as close to the bottom of your wire wrapping as you can.
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