Wire-Wrapping Blue Agate Hummingbird Heady Copper Pendant Tutorial

Step 4 of 18

Anchor the loose 20-gauge wires onto the stone wire frame, leaving a gap in between the anchor points (fig. 4a, 4b, 4c, 4d).

This is how the front and back of your oval blue stone frame should look (fig. 4e, 4f).

Coil the front 20-gauge looped wires with 26-gauge copper wire (fig. 4g, 4h, 4i).

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Your first heady layer frame design is complete.

Step 5 of 18

Next, use the remaining 20-gauge copper wires from the stone frame to trace the shape of the bird wings (fig. 5a, 5b):

• Trace the top half of the wings with the right loose wire (fig. 5c).
• Trace the bottom half of the wings with the left loose wire (fig. 5d).

Line the extra 20-gauge copper wires in the middle of the wings (fig. 5e).

Your bird wing frame is complete.

Step 6 of 18

For the second layer of the heady frame design, let’s create a double coiled wire frame.

To form a single coiled wire, take a 22-gauge copper wire string as a base wire and a 26-gauge copper wire string as coiling wire (fig. 6a, 6b).

Use a coiling gizmo to speed up the wire coiling process (fig. 6c).

To form a double coiled wire, prepare a 22-gauge copper wire string as a new base wire (fig. 6d).

Then, anchor the single coiled wire and a second string of 22-gauge copper wire onto the new base wire (fig. 6e, 6f, 6g).

Twist both wires for the double coiled texture until it is long enough to frame your stone (fig. 6h, 6i, 6j).

Lastly, anchor wire ends onto the new base wire (fig. 6k, 6l).