Learn to Make Love Knot Beads: A Wire Bead Making Tutorial for Beginners

In this video we walk you through, step-by-step, the making of a Love Knot bead.
Love Knots can be used as any other bead to make earrings, bracelets, necklaces, or other items of jewelry. You can combine them with different beads, or you can make jewelry using only Love Knot beads.
We love the simplicity of the Love Knot and just how easy they are to make and use. We also like the way they can be slipped into so many different designs to add a new and interesting design element; an element that you can say you made yourself.
To make Love Knots you need only
• wire, 18 gauge (1.0 mm) in this example
• a round mandrel, 5 mm or 3/16 inch, (we used a knitting needle)
• a pair of wire cutters (we are using flush cutters because it gives a cleaner, or flush, cut)
• Chain nose pliers can be useful but are optional
• We also used some steel wool to clean the wire (000 or 0000 will work).
For those of you who prefer something you can have right in front of you while you work, we have a written tutorial available, for free, you can download from our website:
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And if you are looking for ideas on what you can make with your newfound, Love Knot making skills, we have another tutorial that covers using Love Knots to make earrings, a bracelet, and a necklace. It is available here:
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To learn to make Wire Wrapped loops as we used in the video to attach the Love Knot bead to the ear wire, we have a free written tutorial you can download here:
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And we also have a video on our TH-cam channel that shows you how to make wrapped loops.
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If you would like to learn more about making jewelry we have two books available on Amazon. Both are full of beginner-level projects to help you get started in jewelry making. We kept them downloadable and inexpensive so as many people as possible can give the many facets of jewelry making a try.
The first book covers basic stringing and can be found here:
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And in the second book we introduce the new jewelry maker to working with wire:
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There are lots of other jewelry-making kits, patterns, tutorials, and ideas on our website. Come visit and spend a little time browsing through our site.
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[@gloriastocks4483]

Love this tutorial - love these love knot beads

[@zdenekmutina7937]

So much to learn...even in most basics...

[@homestrungjewelry]

Yup, but this one is so easy even I can do it.
Would you like to see more "make your own wire beads" tutorials?

[@zdenekmutina7937]

@@homestrungjewelry gladly

[@maggiellis24]

Thanks so much for the awesome tutorial. Loooove the love knots!!!!

[@yomama8873]

Thank you

[@giddygumkins9453]

Great video!

[@homestrungjewelry]

Thanks. Once you start making Love Knots, it's hard to stop. You always end up with more than you planned, which means you can throw together an extra pair of earrings or a bracelet. I like to mix wire colors.

[@lynnseresin8305]

Love these cute little knots!!!

[@katiecox2771]

Thanks very much for sharing! Love them.

[@ariadams2955]

So very cute! Thank you.. 🌞 Looking forward to more content from you!

[@podelkiizZ]

Большое спасибо, очень красивый дизайн! Мне тоже нравится работать с пружинками из проволоки!

[@homestrungjewelry]

Спасибо. Как только вы начнете, трудно перестать делать маленькие пружинки.

[@mawi1172]

Slughtly interesting 🤔🤔.

[@homestrungjewelry]

The last time I did anything I would consider to be "slughtly interesting", I was scolded by a teacher and sent to the principal's office. I have since reformed and avoid anything that might be even be slightly slughtly.

[@tishsmiddy71]

Thank you 🥰 great advice and so cool I’ve been looking for beads to make out of all the wire I found at a job site after poles went up at a land clears at a trailer park all trailers are gone walked my dog after they left a seen a garbage bag of pieces of wire andantes ziplock full of small copper washers and funny looking nails ! So it’s a Sign ! ❤️🤟🏻💋

[@user-pp4wb6ub2o]

Hi, I really like this, can go with anything. You mentioned cuff links as an example. Would you perhaps consider to do some cuff links, and perhaps other items for men? I ask as there is really nothing out there, you being a man might be able to come up with some great items. If a question is not asked one will not know the answer, so I put it out there. Thank you for you videos.

[@homestrungjewelry]

Shanda had some tutorials for things like cuff links and a tie bar. We'll see what we can find.

[@user-pp4wb6ub2o]

@@homestrungjewelry Thank you 😺

[@yomama8873]

Cool thanks🤩🤩🤩💜💜

[@fatimashandmade0387]

Nice technique

[@rowanmcnay]

Great tutorial! What size of mandrel would you suggest for 20 gauge wire?

[@homestrungjewelry]

For 20 gauge I would probably stay with the same size and keep the 4 wraps per coil and see how it looks. If it seems too "floppy", you can try a slightly smaller mandrel but it can get a little hard to manage if you go too much smaller.
If you jump up to 16 gauge, you can use the same size mandrel, but drop down to 3 wraps around the mandrel for each coil.

[@mariadarosa4895]

Hello, I just happened to come across your tutorial, and I must say this is nice and different. I like it very much - question for you, may I have your permission to make and sell your product?

[@homestrungjewelry]

Sure.

[@cleishman27]

I like it. Thanks. I'm going to give it a try, Where can I print a hard copy of the instructions?

[@homestrungjewelry]

Hi Carol:
There is a link in the show notes just above the comments section. There are a couple of links. Make sure you check out the free downloadable tutorial first.
Let me know how it goes.
Steve