hello today I'll be showing you how to make a beaded spider much like this one one pair of round nose pliers one pair of flat nose pliers and one pair of wire cutters seed beads size six to eight bugle beads one oval or round bead about an inch long uses the body and one spool of 24 gauge craft wire to begin you'll need about ten inches of wire you'll need four of these does not need to be exact but you would like your wires to be roughly the same length after you've cut your wires take them even up one side of them and take the other side and turn them so they're a little closer to the same length always aim down when you pop the wires because sometimes they can go flying off and it can hurt a little bit next take them and give them in about half you don't want to bend them too hard as that will put a kink in your wire but you do want to have about halfway marked off after that you take your body bead and you sled it down over the wire to that halfway point to do that you flatten the wires over the top and cross them over here next you take your flat nose pliers and you grab them just past that just pass that half way bent mark and you twist careful to make sure that you don't do quite that you want to hold on to all of the wires at once so that they don't arrange themselves out of order anyways you get them to where the two different sides of the wired twist over each other and that can afford you a better grip and you twist till you get them nice and snug it can be spent a little bit but not a whole lot is the general idea this will form the basic structure skeleton of the spider this will give you eight legs you next you're going to take one of your seed beats and thread it down over one of the legs then you take one of your book bugle beads and you do the same thing you're gonna do this till you have four seed beads and three-vehicle beads next you take your round nose pliers and you grab the wire at the very tip and you bend it around until you have a nice circle like so at that point you take your flat nose pliers and you grab it perpendicularly make sure you grab it nice and tight or it'll just slide around anyways you grab it and you start to bend it forward a little bit at a time so that it gets a nice round flat spiral shape like that and you keep doing that until you get up to the legs sometimes having flat nose pliers with grip on the inside helps however that will also mark up your wire so it's really a trade-off in its individual preference but once you have a curled up to the beads one thing the beads don't slide down and for the next thing it makes a nice decorative foot now you repeat the same procedure for the next eight for the next seven links after you've made all your legs the next thing you're want to get going to want to do is to put a design on the back here each artist who makes a spider usually puts their own individual design and that's how they distinguish them from one another so I'll just show you a simple design that you can use it's the one that I usually use first off you take your needle nose pliers also known as round nose pliers put it vertically so that the tips are flat up against the glass separate out one of the pieces of wire a little bit and twist it outwards so that it makes a corner head then you take the piece from the very opposite side you grab it and you do the same thing separate the two on the inside so you can fit the pliers in there and twist and then the final one going in the other direction that gives you a fairly simple design and it helps to tighten up all the wires so there's not quite as much loose now once you've put the design on the back and you have all the legs done the only thing left to do is to make it posed like a spider do this basically just bend the leg up flatten out the top piece a little bit and then the other leg down and then you repeat the same procedure for all the other legs making sure that the feet curl downwards at that point you set it on the ground or on the tabletop and you just bend it so that all the legs touch the ground so that they're nice and even and it actually looks like it's somewhat standing there which it will be and voila one spider