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Pipecleaner Shamrock Pin

With one pipecleaner, one bead and a bar pin, you can make a shamrock pin to wear on St. Patrick's Day.

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Materials:

  • Green Pipecleaner (chenille stem)
  • Clear Pony bead; 9 x 6 mm
  • Bar pin
  • Hot glue gun

1) Slide the pony bead onto the center of the pipecleaner.

2) Keeping the bead in the center of the pipecleaner and holding the pipecleaner horizontally, bring the end of the pipecleaner from the right side of the bead around to the left side of the bead and insert it from left to right  through the center of the bead forming a loop.  Pull gently until the loop measures approximately 1" across.

3) Take the pipecleaner that is on the left and bring it around and insert the end through the center of the bead from right to left forming a 1" loop.  You now have a bead in the center with two loops and two straight pieces coming out of it.

4) Take the straight piece on the right side and make a 1" loop and insert the end back into the right side of the bead.  Bend any remaining pipecleaner from this piece up and over the bead.

5) Trim the other straight piece so that it is about 1" long.

6) Gently push in the center of each loop slightly forming a V in the middle of the loop.

7) Hot glue a bar pin to the back of the shamrock.  The back side is the side with the piece of pipecleaner bent up over the bead.

Slide the bead onto the pipecleaner Insert the pipecleaner from the right-side from left to right through the bead. Gently pull until the loop is 1" Insert the pipecleaner from the left-side from right to left through the bead.

Make a 1" loop with the straight piece on the right and insert it through the bead. Fold the end up over the bead. The loops are rounded at this point. Push in gently on each loop making a V in the center. Hot glue a pin to the back.

 

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