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Wine Glass Charms
Designed by Donna Hulka
Honorable Mention Contest Winner
2005 Release Your Inner Designer Contest
 How
many times have you set down your glass at a get-together and, when you went
to take another sip, wondered if you were picking up the right one? These
charms will help keep track of whose glass is whose at parties or holiday
gatherings. They’re useful for wine or champagne glasses, water goblets, or
any other stemware. They work up quickly and would make a lovely hostess
gift.
Materials:
1 wire beading hoop (1¼ inch diameter)
18 inches of 28 gauge wire
5 beads of your choice
2 crimp beads
Size F/3.75 mm aluminum crochet hook
Crimping pliers
Wire cutting pliers
Flat nose pliers
Notes:
Beads between 4 and 10 mm diameter are ideal for this project, but smaller
or larger ones may work also. Each charm should have a different color or
style of beads. Or you may purchase a set of novelty-themed charms and use a
different one as the center bead on each wine charm.
A beading hoop is a wire circle that has one plain end and one end with a
hole. The hole may be an eye or the end of the wire may be flattened with a
hole drilled into the flat part.
When working with wire, it is not necessary to begin with a slip knot or end
by fastening off because wire does not unravel like yarn. So, to make your
first chain stitch, take the tail end of the wire and put it behind the
working end to make a loop. Put your hook through the loop, yarn over, and
draw it through the loop.
If you’ve never crocheted with wire before, it will help to do a few
practice chains first to get the feel of it. As you are making each stitch,
the wire need not be snug around the hook, but shouldn’t be much larger than
the hook.
 Instructions:
It is easiest to leave the wire on the spool and cut it when you are done.
Thread 5 beads onto wire. With F crochet hook, (chain 1, pull up a bead
close to the hook and chain 1) 5 times, chain 1, cut wire leaving an inch or
so tail end and gently pull it through last chain but don’t tighten (11
chains).
Slide one crimp bead onto the beading hoop. Thread the plain end of the hoop
back and forth through each chain: insert hoop end into the back of one
chain, (into the front of the next chain, into the back of the next chain)
across until the all 11 chains are on the hoop. Slide one crimp bead onto
the hoop.
On the plain end of the hoop, use flat nose pliers to bend the wire into a
right angle about ¼ inch from the end. Hoop is closed by putting the bent
wire through the eye or hole in the opposite end, but you’ll probably want
to leave it open now for ease of working.
Center the crocheted chain on the hoop. Do the following for both tail ends
of wire. Starting close to the last chain stitch, wrap the wire end tightly
and closely about 6 times around the hoop. Cut wire close to hoop, leaving
about a 2 mm end. Take the crimp bead you placed onto the hoop and slide it
over the wire end. Both the hoop and wire end should now be inside the crimp
bead. Use crimp pliers to close the crimp bead.
 
Copyright
2005 Donna Hulka
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