Silver & Rose Gold Bead Anxiety Ring

Anxiety rings, also known as fidget rings or worry rings are traditionally designed to calm the mind and help relieve stresses or anxiety. This wire ring features small rose gold filled metal beads that you can use your fingers or thumb to spin to relax.

This ring project is beginner friendly, requiring only a small amount of tools and no metalsmithing knowledge.

Step by step instructions

1. Using a saw or heavy duty side cutters, cut approx 16cm of sterling silver wire. If the ends are rough, use a file to smooth the ends.

16cm is suitable for ring size N, so you may need to adjust the amount needed if necessary - you can wrap the wire around your finger as a guide - we have added 20cm of wire to the shopping list to give you more wire to work with.

2. Using the tips of round nose pliers, form a loop on one end of the wire and use snipe nose pliers to adjust if needed.

3. Wrap the wire around the mandrel using the size you require as a guide. Use a rawhide mallet to gently tap the wire while placed on the mandrel to form the shape, this also work hardens your wire, making it stronger.

4. Thread on as many rose gold filled metal beads as you like to your anxiety ring.

We have included 2 packs of 10 metal beads but you can adjust this if you would like.

5. Finish your ring by forming another loop at the end of the wire and your ring is complete.

You can easily customise your ring by adding texture with a hammer, adding charms to the loops of the wire, adding gemstone beads or experimenting with other mixed metals. Have fun getting creative!

Recommended Tools

Heavy duty side cutters or saw

File

Ring mandrel

Rawhide mallet

Round nose pliers

Snipe nose pliers

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