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Hi this Megan with Beadaholique.com and I'm going to show you how to add
a cord end cap to finish your viking knit
so the first thing you'll need to do is
measure
the diameter of your finished viking knit after you've
done it through the draw plate and are satisfied
with the width
and choose an cord end cap
the kind that has
no loop. It's just going to have a hole at the end so you can find a bead cap or a cord end cap
with a hole instead of a loop
fine one that's going to accommodate the diameter of
your finished viking knit
you're going to take a
piece of wire. I have a twenty-four gauge wire viking knit. I'm going to use a twenty gauge
piece of wire
you could probably get away with twenty-two, twenty somewhere in there
you want it to be kind of sturdy. So I'm going to
take about a six inch piece of wire, you probably don't need that much
I always like to be better safe than sorry with wire
just insert the tip through
the last few loops of your viking knit
about an inch from the end, bend it up
and all we're gonna do at this
part here is secure it
this can be kind of a pain and it can get kind of sloppy, just try to cross them
over
hold that top of the loop still
and bring
the short end of the wire around
and trim it off
it just needs to hold in place, it doesn't need to be pretty
and try not to make it
be tall because that's going to keep the cord end from covering the end of
your viking knit
so now take the cord end
and slide it onto the
longer piece of wire
and right down over the top
and pull it down so that it's really all the way down against
that loop that you just made. It should cover the sides of your viking knit
and now we're going to make a wrap wire loop at the top. I'm using wire looping
pliers. You can also use
chain nose and round nose pliers
We have a video on how to make wrapped wire loops so if
if you don't know how it's probably best to watch that one
to get the hang of it
go
just a bit from the cord end
rotate
and then go ahead and wrap
the end of the wire
around
trim the end
and then
tuck the tail end down
into the loop
straighten that up
and that's
going to you give you a really nice clean finish
cover the
funky ends of the viking knit and let you
attach a clasp. Go to www.beadaholique.com to purchase beading supplies and to get design ideas!