Add Wire
Sooner or later you will want to join in a new peice of wire.
Bring the end around as usual (the color and thinkness change is just for clarity and because I could not get the blue to hold a bend)
This image is a bit deceptive. The length never works out this perfectly. Snug it up, bend it over, the clip off the extra.
Once you have clipped off any extra wire, tuck in the end with a blunt needle.
Cut a new length of wire. Bring your new peice of wire in from the LEFT as this it the other end than you usually work with.
Bend a tight hook in the end. You can use tweezers or some other small tool or bend it around a needle. Even the edge of a knife and a table can be used together to grab the end and put a hook into it.
Gently snug up your hook. It can unbend at this point so be sure to put you finger on this stitch to hold it in place as you work around the next few stitches.
As you work around make sure you keep you off hand thumb of finger on the stitches. This will help keep the join in place. (The wire at the bottom is not part of the join. It is the next row.)
And one more row just because.
That is a join on single stitch. Now that you have gone past it for 2 rows you can use your needle from inside the tube of stitches to fiddle with the ends of the wire a bit and make sure it is secure. On double stitch the join is much more secure, but I have never seen one come out of a single stitch pendant so don't worry about it.
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