Wire Wrapped Vial Necklace

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  Step 1

  Gather your materials. I chose to work with the wire so that I don't end up with too much or too little wire, but it's up to you. You'd probably need about 4-5" of wire though(I'm estimating.).

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  Step 2

  First, make a wire scroll/ spiral. If you don't know how to, here's a link: http://www.artbeads.com/wire-spiral.html

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  Step 3

  Wrap the wire around the neck of the vial twice like in the picture. The part of the wire that's red in the picture should be about 1.25".

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  Step 4

  Here's a picture of how you should be wrapping the wire around the vial. Keep the wire connected to the spiral under the other end of the wire (In other words, keep the red wire under the blue one in the picture.).

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  Step 5

  Bend the wire with the spiral up like so.

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  Step 6

  Bend the red wire down like so. Make sure the bend is somewhat curved; you could bend the wire around a pencil or something cylindrical.

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  Step 7

  Curve the red wire even more to the right so that it resembles this picture.

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  Step 8

  Bend the scroll part a bit to the left as in the picture. Make sure there's a slightly sharp bend at the yellow dot in the picture.

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  Step 9

  Now bend the blue wire to the left so that it's over the yellow dot part of the red wire (as seen in step 8's picture).

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  Step 10

  Wrap the blue wire around the red wire's loop (Bring the blue wire around the loop in a clockwise wrap as seen from a bird's eye view -- hope that makes sense!).

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  Step 11

  Bend the blue wire to the right, bringing the wire behind the vial's neck (Look at the picture; the blue dots make up the wire that goes behind the neck.).

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  Step 12

  Curve the blue wire back to the left and around the front of the vial's neck. (Again, the blue dots in the picture make up the part of the blue wire that's curved behind the neck.).

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  Step 13

  Bring the blue wire under the red wire attached to the spiral.

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  Step 14

  Cut the wire if you haven't already. The part of the wire that's blue in the picture should be around 1.25".

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  Step 15

  Make a spiral using the blue wire.

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  Step 16

  Roll both spirals as close as you want.

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  Step 17

  Optional: turn the loop (circled in red) to the side. Do this step if you are directly stringing the vial to a necklace; you could just skip this step and add a jump ring instead.

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  Step 18

  String ribbon or a chain through the loop, and you've got yourself a new necklace! What will you put in your vial?

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Susan + · Salt Lake City, Utah, US 23rd November 2015

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Krista C. 22nd April 2013

where do u get the vials?

Conn · San Francisco, California, US · 134 projects 23rd April 2013

I got mine at a dollar store, so I would suggest searching around there. Otherwise, many craft stores (Michaels, Joann) would probably have them too.

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