Chain Fringe Dangles

The mini dangles are made from 24 ga wire and 2mm beads. If you have scrap 24 ga wire, a ~40 mm piece should be long enough for a dangle. Otherwise, rather than measure out a specific length of wire for each dangle, it is easier to make a set of dangles from one long piece of wire that gets shorter with each dangle made, as long as the last piece is at least 40 mm.

Create a head pin by using the tip of your chain nose pliers to bend one end of the wire back on itself and crimp closed. Slide on a 2 mm bead and use the chain nose tip as a spacer for a 90 deg bend. Use round nose tip to form an eye on the other side of the bend. Slide the chain onto the eye before wrapping it closed. Note the example starts with the second link from the end of the chain. This leaves the end link to attach to the frame.

Use chain nose pliers to grip the eye while keeping the chain out of the way. Then wrap the wire three times around the stem between the bead and eye.

Use chain nose pliers to grip the head pin while you trim the wire and use chain nose pliers to press down the trimmed end. Repeat the process with the trimmed wire (provided you still have more than 40 mm) to add more mini dangles to the chain. Place a dangle on every other link with all hanging to the same side of the chain. Leave an empty link on both ends of the chain to attach to the frame.

The 20 ga wire frame forms two sides of a triangle with the chain as the third side. In this example with 5 dangles attached to 1.5 mm cable chain, the chain is 17 mm long. If a roughly right angle frame is desired, each side of the frame should be ~17 mm / sqrt(2) = ~17 / 1.41 = ~12 mm. Add 7.5 mm for each round nose tip (RN-0) eye to a get a total 39 mm estimated wire length for the frame. I just rounded this up to an even 40 mm. Mark and place a 90 deg bend at the center of the wire. Then form RM-0 eyes at each end. Attached one end of the chain to each eye. You will need to bend the frame to a more accute angle to allow the slack to fit the second chain end onto the eye. Then open the frame angle up again to pull the chain taut. Hammer the frame corner with a dome face hammer to strengthen the bend so that the chain stays taut. Finally, attach an ear wire so that the frame hangs from the bend.