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Autumn in the Vineyard Necklace
NOTE: This project includes one or more items that are no longer available, despite our best efforts. We have kept this project on the site for you to use as a template or inspiration for your own creations.
Project N119
Designer: Andrea Morici
Luscious fall colors, mixed copper and antique brass, and leaves of various materials and textures make
for quite a display in this gorgeous autumnal necklace.
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What You'll Need
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Instructions:
- Begin by cutting a piece of wire twenty inches long, and secure one end with a bead stopper. Set this aside.
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Add three linked jump rings to each of the brass leaf charms.
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Onto two single-ball copper headpins thread a brass melon bead, a 4mm serpentine bead, and a copper bicone. Create a wrapped loop and cut off excess wire.
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Onto two more single-ball copper headpins thread a 4mm serpentine bead and a lucite autumn leaf (concave side down). Bend each headpin wire upward at ninety degrees and make a wrapped loop on each. Trim off excess wire.
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Onto two more single-ball copper headpins thread a 4mm serpentine bead, a yellow honey jade bead, and a carnelian bead. Make a wrapped loop on each and trim off excess wire.
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Onto two of the copper headpins with loop and three-ball charm thread a 4mm serpentine bead, a copper bicone, and a carnelian bead. Make a simple loop on each and trim off excess wire.
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Pick up your wire and thread the following beads:
- a copper bicone
- a 4mm serpentine bead
- a brass melon bead
- a yellow honey jade bead
- a copper bicone
- a carnelian bead
- and another brass melon bead.
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Starting with the serpentine bead (omitting the first copper bicone) continue this pattern, threading a serpentine, a honey jade, and a carnelian with alternating copper and brass beads in between each.
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Continue threading in this manner until your bead strand is about five and three eighths inches long. The last bead you thread should be a brass melon.
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After the last brass melon bead:
- thread a copper palmette leaf charm, another brass melon
- a serpentine
- a copper bicone
- a natural brass leaf charm
- another copper bicone
- a yellow honey jade
- brass melon
- wrapped loop headpin charm (the one containing brass melon, serpentine, and copper bicone)
- brass melon
- carnelian
- copper bicone
- wrapped loop headpin charm with the lucite autumn leaf
- copper bicone
- serpentine
- brass melon
- wrapped loop headpin charm (the one containing a serpentine, a honey jade, and a carnelian)
- a brass melon
- honey jade
- copper bicone
- copper palmette leaf charm
- copper bicone
- carnelian
- brass melon
- simple loop fancy charm headpin (containing a serpentine, copper bicone, and carnelian)
- another brass melon
- a serpentine
- a copper bicone
- and the large serpentine leaf pendant.
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After the large serpentine leaf pendant, repeat the entire necklace threading pattern, only in reverse, like a mirror image of the first side.
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When you get to the end of the necklace thread a crimp bead, but do not crimp it yet.
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Thread the end of the necklace through the hole on either part of the toggle clasp, back through the crimp bead, and crimp it.
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Remove the bead stopper from the other end of the necklace and thread a crimp bead. Do not crimp the bead yet.
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Thread the wire through the loop on the other half of the toggle clasp, back through the crimp bead, and crimp it down. Trim off excess wire.
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