How to Link Safety Pins

If you want to try a new way of making jewelry, you can link together safety pins to create chain bracelets or beaded brooches. If your safety pins have ta coil at the bottom, you will need to use split link pliers to link them together. Making safety pin jewelry to give out as gifts will save you money because safety pins can be bought inexpensively anywhere craft or office supplies are sold.

Linked Safety Pin Jewelry

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  Measure your neck or wrist with a tape measure, if you are making a necklace or bracelet, to help you determine how many safety pins you will need. If you are working with safety pins that are 1 inch long, you will need 7 pins for a bracelet that is 7 inches long.

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  Feed an open, coilless safety pin through the hole at the top of another coilless safety pin. Using coilless safety pins lets you to link the safety pins together and keep them hanging straight. If you link together safety pins that have coils at the bottoms, your necklace or bracelet will take on a zigzag pattern.

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  Link the top of a safety pin to the bottom of the last safety pin until your necklace or bracelet is complete. The convenience of linked safety pin jewelry is that it doesn't require a clasp---you can simply open any one of the safety pins to put the jewelry on or take it off.

Linked Safety Pin Brooch

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  Pry open the coils of 11 size-0 safety pins with a pair of needle nose or split ring pliers. Open them just enough for a bead to fit through. Add beads in a pattern to each safety pin and pinch the coils back together with the pliers. Do this with all 11 pins.

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  Open a size-2 safety pin so that the pointed end is exposed, then open the coil of the pin in the way described in the previous step. Feed the pointed end of the size-2 safety pin through the closed coils of the beaded safety pins. Slide the beaded safety pins around the open coil of the size-2 safety pin, so that they all end up on the opposite side of the size-2 (the side of the safety pin that doesn't open).

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  Pinch the larger safety pin shut with your pliers when all of the beaded safety pins have been added. Now you can open the safety pin and wear it as a decorative brooch.