Making Eye pins and Head pins and when you shouldn't work-harden them

...she said sheepishly after making several dozen head and eye pins and hardening them and then attempting to use them to attach crystals to a silver bracelet, first looping and then wrapping. It's the wrapping part that clued me in. Better to use dead-soft silver, make your pins, and set them aside specifically for those beads where you need to loop around a link and then wrap. It's much easier using dead soft because the wrapping hardens the wire.

Duh.