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Maddie Necklace
Project N1021
Designer: Megan Milliken
Vintage lucite beads and rose peach crystal faux pearls are accented with a pretty strand of peridot seed
beads in this elegant necklace. Add a classy touch to your favorite look.
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What You'll Need
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Specialized Tools
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Instructions:
- To begin, cut two lengths of white Soft Flex fine beading wire each four feet long.
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Place a bead stopper about 4" from the end of one piece of beading wire.
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Onto this piece of beading wire, string 19 vintage lucite plastic round faceted beads, then 8 12mm rose peach crystal faux pearls, and then 19 more lucite beads, with one 11/0 sparkling peridot lined seed bead between each bead and the next. Make sure you begin and end with a seed bead as well.
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Your seed beads may go through the hole of your lucite beads. Don't worry, you can always get them back to where you need them later. Just make sure that you keep alternating them when you string them so that you have the correct number at the end.
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Place a second bead stopper several inches from the last bead strung.
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Take off the first bead stopper, being careful not to let your beads fall off of your beading wire. Place your second wire along the first with the ends together, and bring your second wire through the first seed bead. Then place both wires back into a bead stopper, holding them together.
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String 12 seed beads onto the second wire and bring the wire through the seed bead between the 1st and 2nd lucite beads. Pull both wires tight, and make sure that you push this bead right up against the 1st lucite bead.
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Repeat the last step until you have strung seed beads along the whole first section of lucite beads. Bring the beads back and forth in an ess, or wave shape, as you go from bead to bead. See the photos for reference. As you work, you will use up some of the slack of the first wire. Move the end bead stopper as necessary.
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After you go through the last seed bead before the first pearl bead, string 15 seed beads to go around the first pearl bead. Continue as before, stringing 15 seed beads for each pearl bead. After the last pearl bead, go back to 12 seed beads and continue through the second set of lucite beads.
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After the last bead, make sure that your second wire exits through the last seed bead from the first wire.
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Taking the two wires together as one, bring them through a 1.5mm gold plated crimp tube, then through a .024" 22k gold plated wire & thread protector, and back through the crimp tube. Pull tight to the last bead, bending the wire protector loop closed. Crimp the crimp tube to secure, and trim the loose ends close to the tube.
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Repeat the last step on the other end of the necklace.
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Use a 4mm, 22 gauge 22k gold plated jump ring to connect each wire & thread protector to one half of a 23k gold plated box clasp.
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Variations
Use a different color of crystal faux pearls, with seed beads to match, and achieve a whole different look. When substituting in items, pay attention to sizes and styles to make sure all your pieces will fit together.
Keywords: pearl, peach, vintage, lucite, green, SWAROVSKI ELEMENTS, elegant elements
Tip: Check package quantities for each component. You may have extra material to make more than one finished project, or will have leftovers for other projects. In some cases, adding on just one more package of a component may be all you need to make multiple pieces.
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