Icy Christmas Spider Tutorial
Icy Christmas Spider Kits are available at Bead World for just $3.99 this holiday season!
Call (480) 948-2323 to order. All materials are included in the kit.
Required Materials:
·
10mm
round bead (head)
·
16mm
round bead (rear end)
·
Size
6 seed beads (2)
·
22
gauge craft wire (24 inches)
·
3
inch head pins (1)
·
Size
11 Delica beads (138)
·
¼
inch bugle beads (38)
You’ll
also need:
· Wire
Cutters
- Round nose pliers
Instructions:
1.
Cut
the craft wire into leg segments: three 6 inch pieces and one 5 inch
piece. Make a loop in the center of each
wire segment with your round nose pliers.
2.
Place
the following items onto your headpin: size 6 seed bead, rear end bead, 6 inch
wire, 6 inch wire, 6 inch wire, 5 inch wire, head bead, size 6 seed bead.
3.
Using
your wire wrapping skills, form a loop. Finish the loop and cut off any excess
wire. Move the two shortest legs to the
front of the spider.
4.
Arrange
the wires so the legs will be emerging from under the spider’s body. Thread a
pattern of three Delicas and one bugle bead onto a short front leg. Use 4 bugle beads and end with 3
Delicas. Make a loop in the wire to
secure the leg.
5.
Carefully
bend the wire to shape the leg. Repeat
on the other short front leg.
6.
Thread
a pattern of three Delicas and one bugle bead onto a long leg. Use 5 bugle beads and end with 3 Delicas.
7.
Carefully
bend the wire to shape the leg. Repeat
on all the other legs. The complete
spider is shown on the top of the page.
Here's our version of the popular tale:
A long, long time ago, a
gentle mother was busily cleaning the house for the most wonderful day of the
year ... Christmas Day. Not a speck of dust was left anywhere. Even the little
spiders had been banished from their cozy corner high up on the ceiling. To
avoid the housewife's busy cleaning, they finally fled to the farthest corner
of the forgotten attic.
Finally, it was Christmas
Eve. The tree was decorated and the children delighted. But the poor spiders
were frantic, for they could not see the tree, nor be present for the magic of
the season. The oldest and wisest spider suggested that perhaps they could wait
until everyone had gone to bed and then sneak through the crack in the door to
see the wonders of the tree. The little spiders silently and carefully came
down out of their attic corner and across the floor to wait in the crack on the
threshold.
Pretty soon all was quiet, so
the spiders quickly crept into the room. The tree towered so high that they
couldn't see the ornaments on top. In fact, the little spiders' eyes were so
small that they could only see one ornament at a time. They all scurried up the
trunk, out along each branch, filled with a happy wonder at the glittering
beauty. The spiders loved the Christmas tree. All night long, they danced in
the branches, and every place they went left a fine trail of gray web. When at
last they had inspected every bit of the Christmas tree, it was shrouded in the
delicate gray of spider webs.
When Santa arrived, he smiled
as he thought of the happy spiders seeing the tree and how much they liked it.
But he also thought of how sad the little mother would be over the
cobweb-covered tree. He reached out his hand and touched the lovely webs. Immediately, all the webs started to sparkle
and shine turning into shimmering, sparkling silver and gold. The tree
glistened in greater beauty than ever before!
According to legend, ever
since this happened, people have hung tinsel on their Christmas trees. It has
also become a tradition to have a special spider ornament somewhere on your
Christmas tree, in honor of those spiders from so long ago. For the magic of Christmas belongs to
everyone, even the tiniest spiders among us.
Merry Christmas!
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