Video Transcript

Hi, Linda Hutchinson of L. Hutchinson Designs. Today, I'm going to show you how to write your name in wire and the instructions go as this, you take wire such as this and you take needle nose pliers to bend the wire and wire cutters like this to cut off any excess. So I've begun to write my name here with a wire and I'm just going to continue bending it, manipulating it with the pliers like this. You just want to try to get it to look as much as possible like cursive. I don't suggest trying to do print because you want it to be one continuous thing like cursive. I'm just going to go ahead and bend this up with my pliers. Any time that you want to form an area like say with the letter I here where it's kind of straight, you don't really want it to look very loopy, you just want to compress it with your pliers to kind of flatten it out as much as possible and then I'm going to go ahead and just loop this up here to form the tail of the letter. Again just keep adjusting it until you get it where you want it. While you go to do one part another part may shift from where you originally want it, that's okay, just go back in and play around with it until you get it where it is that you want it. Once you have it completed, you can snip off your excess wire with your cutters, holding it so it doesn't shoot up and hit you in the eye and then once you have it finished, you may just want to take your needle nose pliers and just give it a little bit of a spiral or whatever to give it a finished edge. And there is how you can write your name in wire for a nice personalized piece of jewelry. My name is Linda Hutchinson. Thank you so much for joining me, bye bye.