Wire balls with modeling wire

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Wire wrap balls you can easily form yourself from modeling wire. The wire is available in many colors, so you can also make the balls in colorful variations. In the tutorial we show you how to make a wire wrap ball yourself and process it into an earring.

For the wire ball earrings, you will need modeling wire, a toothpick for winding, chain pins, ear hooks and Gala Sweet balls.

Cut a 1 m long piece from the modeling wire with the side cutter. Start wrapping one end of the wire around the toothpick. The toothpick helps you to wrap the wire ball and serves as a placeholder for the later felling hole.

Form a bow from the wire and wrap it neither around the toothpick. Between the two wraps of wire on the toothpick should be about 14 mm.

Continue to work on the basic structure of the wire ball and form another arc on the opposite side of the first arc.

Make a total of four arcs facing each other on the toothpick.

Now begin to wrap the wire around the base. Slowly a spherical shape becomes visible.

In between, wrap the two later felling holes on the toothpick with the wire again and again.

Keep winding the wire until only about 1 cm is left.

Insert the short piece of wire into the wire ball and press it with the flat nose pliers.

The wire ball is now pulled from the toothpick. You can also squeeze the ball again by hand and reshape it. If the wire around the threading hole is not wound tightly enough, you can also compress the wire again with the flat-nose pliers.

To further process the wire ball into an earring, open the eye of an eye pin and hang it in the wire ball.

Thread a Gala Sweet ball onto the pin.

Bend the pin into an eyelet and wrap the bottom end of the eyelet twice. Cut off the remaining pin. Hook the eyelet back into the opened lower part of the ear hook and close it again. Make the second earring using the same pattern.