Plant Markers: 
How to Make Them, Part Four - Attaching a Round Marble

Let's see what we can do with the other tile in that arrangement.  The accent tiles are a liitle too coarse to attach to the leftover triangular tile, so beads and marbles can be used instead.  Here is one possibility:

Step 1:  Lay out your design and mark your tile.

Step 2:  Wrap your tile in a figure eight and secure, as before.

Wrapping a marble:

Step 3:  Cut a piece of 7-stranded wire about one foot long.  Loop it around the marble at the middle, and twist the ends once. 

 

Steps 4 & 5:  Turn the marble around, and wrap the wire back around the middle again so it is evenly spaced around the marble.

 

Steps 6 & 7: Use the small screwdriver to make a space under the smooth loop of wire, and pass one end through it. 

 

Steps 8-10:  Pass the other end through the space and twist the ends together.  Arrange the wire until it is evenly spaced around the marble.  Twist the wire ends securely to form maybe one half inch of stem.  Make a loop of the leftover wire at the top, cutting off any not needed.  Then attach to the back of the tile with another loop as with the other marker.


The finished marker.
 

Next - Attaching a Stone or a Flat Marble.
   

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