Covering Crimps

When creating seed beaded loops, I was recently asked, how do you cover the crimps? There are a few options! I'm home because of a flooded basement issue today so I made good use of my morning and some shots while crafting a new necklace and earrings that feature seed beaded loops. Here are some photos.

Step 1: String your seed beads and crimp bead.

Step 2:

Thread the wire through the brass square, and pass the wire back through the crimp.

Crimp tightly with crimping pliers

Option 1:

You can easily cover the crimp with un-opened jump rings.

 

Option 2:

You can cover the crimp with a bead- has to have a large enough hole to fit over the crimp.

 

Option 3:

You can use a crimp cover which come in any metal color you like.

 

Here's a shot of one section. 

Here's where it gets tricky. 

Yes, there was swearing.

When finishing the other end, I repeated the first step, but it can be

tricky to get everything pulled tight enough so that there is room to 

crimp without pinching and breaking seed beads...

My ending crimp was not as tight as I wanted and so to

snug everything tight, I added 1 crimp cover on one side of

each beaded section  - why only one side? That was all it took to 

smoosh the beads together leaving no gaps on the wire.

I followed the same technique when making the matching earrings.

At the top, I thread the wire through a jump ring, passed the wire back

down through the crimp. and Covered the crimp with 

a crimp cover.

 

Here are the shots of the finished pieces:

Polymer clay lentils- Pam Wynn

Teal seed beads

Faceted amethyst

Brass squares- Diver

Brass ear wires- Vintaj Brass Co.

Hope this was helpful!