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3 WAYS CHALLENGE around the candle. Secure the butted ends together with tape on the inside of the wrap and slide onto the candle. Make up 19 beaded eyepins using oblong pink glass beads, Indian glass oval beads and oval lampwork floral beads, finishing each with a simple loop close to the bead. Turn a loop in the end of the coil of memory wire, then thread with a pattern of one liquid silver bead followed by two seed beads, adding a beaded eyepin between the first and every third pair of seed beads. Turn a temporary stop loop in the end of the wire to secure the beads, then slide the memory wire onto your candle to gauge the diameter of the wrap and note where your first beaded eyepin needs to connect to the coil above for a snug fit. Remove the memory wire and attach the eyepin between two seed beads at the noted point. Attach the other end of all remaining eyepins between every following third pair of seed beads. Slide all the beads towards the start of the memory wire, then snip the end and turn a loop in it so that all the beads are snug together. Slide the beaded wrap onto your candle. Snip an eyepin to about 15mm in length and open the eye sideways just a little. Push a small hole through the paper in the centre of the turned loop at the top of the beaded wrap and secure the wrap to the candle by inserting
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JUDITH HANNINGTON DESIGNER JUDITH SAYS... My favourite colours and style in one bag! I love lampwork beads and the florals combined with faceted crystals and large Indian glass ovals are just perfect for pretty, feminine projects. But I have to admit to cheating a little for the candle wrap – I added seed beads to the mix to cover the memory wire so that the feature beads from my mix would be the focal connectors in the design.
MATERIALS • Bead Challenge bead mix • pink 7cm diameter pillar candle • pink patterned paper • bracelet-sized memory wire • liquid silver beads (fine tubes) • purple seed beads • silver headpins and eyepins
TOOLS • round-nosed and flat-nosed pliers • memory wire cutters • arch border punch
CANDLE WRAP TO CREATE Cut a strip of patterned paper just smaller than the height of your candle and punch a decorative border all the way along the upper edge. Trim the strip so that the ends butt together when it is wrapped
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the trimmed eyepin into the candle, hooking the open eye around the memory wire loop – you may need to heat the eyepin in a flame to push it securely into the candle. To create the dangling drops, thread headpins with liquid silver beads and a small or large
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crystal. Make a simple loop in the end of each beaded pin and use this eye to connect
around a liquid silver bead on the bottom coil of the beaded wrap.
WHERE TO BUY The additional beading supplies used here are available from www.jillybeads.co.uk and www.smittenbeads.co.uk Border punches and patterned paper for the candle wrap are available from www.craftobsessions.co.uk