Silverware Wind Chimes

Figure A Figure B Figure C

Host Kathi Cardinalli demonstrates how easy it is to bring life to an open window with wind chimes created from recycled silverware (figure A).

Materials:

old silver flatware (serving spoon, cake server, etc.)
needle-nose pliers
beads
flexible, medium-weight silver wire
heavier wire

Steps:

1. Bend the spoon of a cake server or large spoon with a pair of pliers to create a hook (figure B).
   
   
2. String beads on silver wire (same style beads, but in a variety of sizes).
   
   
3. Wrap the end of the wire around itself above the last bead to hold them on temporarily.
   
   
4. Wrap wire through the holes in the cake server. Twist to secure.
   
   
5. Go to heavier wire and cut off about 6 inches. Make a loop (in sort of a horseshoe shape) and create a hook on one end that will hook around the wire about an inch above it. Do the same to the other end of the wire (figure C). Needle-nose pliers are great for this.
   
   
6. Take the wire and twist it above the last bead to attach the two pieces.
   
   
7. Make hooks of the handles of other, smaller flatware and hook them over the hooks that have just been made on each end of the curved wire.
   
   
8. Twist additional hooks around the bead to create more space for additional flatware. Use your imagination!

Also in this Episode

Our Place : Episode OPL-154
•	Silverware Wind Chimes
•	Decorative Garden Artist
•	Re-using Salvaged Items
•	Trade Secrets