Welcome to the beaded spiral wire pendant pattern instructions! If you have any difficulty following this tutorial, please post a comment at the bottom of the page on which you are stuck, and I'll do my best to help!
Step 1 : Now it's time to turn to the other end of the wire. I've labelled this end with a blue dot. It will form the very centre point of the spiral wire pendant. Grab the very edge of the wire with the needle-nose plyers just like with the other end. In fact, twist the plyers the same way as before to form a little loop. But then keep twisting, until the whole wire goes more and more inwards and you end up with spirals of increasing diameter with a central point.
Step 2 : Here is what your pendant should look like so far. You can see several rows of spirals of increasing diameter. The longer the piece of wire you started with, the more spiral rows there will be and the larger the outer diameter. Now we want it to have only two rows of spirals, not three rows, so we will have to cut some length off. We will cut it off from the centre, not from the outside (i.e. off the blue dot end, not the red dot end). This will be the next step. But, if your spiral is already the perfect length, with only two rows, then you won't have to cut any off. You'll see in time whether you need to cut anything as we go through the steps of forming the proper shape. You can always cut some off later.
Step 3 : Here I am showing you cutting a piece of wire from the centre of the pendant using the wire cutters. The red line depicts the point where the cut is made. I recommend cutting a bit at a time (maybe 1cm at a time) if you are not sure how much to cut. You can analyze it after you've made the cut to see if it was enough. It's safer not to overshoot. If you undershoot, you can always cut more later.
Step 4 : This is how your spiral should ideally look after you make the cut. Notice that there are about 2 rows of spiral. We will now curl the centre of the spiral again as before.
Step 5 : Here is a picture of curling the central point of the spiral again. Grab the very tip of the wire where the cut was made with the plyers and twist the wire around the tip of the plyers and then continue to twist until you've got a central point in your spiral again. If you find after doing this that you still have too many rows of spirals, then cut a bit more off the centre again and keep doing this and adjusting it until you find you have the ideal length and shape. More on the ideal shape in the next step.
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