In Bloom Necklace

Project N142
Designer: Andrea Morici

Virtually bursting with life and color, this incredible floral piece utilizes bead weaving and showcases an array of lucite flowers. It would make a grand addition to any beader's repertoire.

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What You'll Need 2 tubes (2 packages) - Miyuki Delica Seed Beads Mix Lot 11/0 Ever Green 8 GR (DB-MIX03) 12' (1 package) - Japanese Nylon Beading K.O. Thread for Delica Beads Olive Green 50 Meters (XCR-9708) 1 (1 package) - English Beading Needles Assortment So Handy (XTL-3004) 1 (1 package) - Thread Heaven Thread Conditioner for Beading (XCR-9800) 8 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 5 x 10mm Olivine Vitrail Leaf Leaves (BCP-9121) 2 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 13 x 15mm Leaf Peridot Ghost Green (BCP-9369) 4 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 10mm Twisted Olivine Leaf Leaves (BCP-9120) 4 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 10mm Olivine/Vitrail Leaf Leaves (BCP-9105) 4 (1 package) - Czech Glass Evergreen Green Mix Leaf Beads 9mm X 14mm (BCP-9366) 2 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 12mm Flower Beadcaps Citrine AB (BCP-9217) 2 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 9mm Flower Beadcaps Aqua Quartz Vitrail (BCP-9260) 4 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 9mm Flower Beadcaps Tanzanite Ghost (BCP-9243) 2 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 9mm Flower Beadcaps Baby Pink (BCP-9230) 2 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 12mm Flower Beadcaps Pink Opal (BCP-9234) 2 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 12mm Flower Beadcaps PinkBlue (BCP-9244) 6 (1 package) - Czech Glass Flower Drops Pastel "Spring Flower" Color Mix 7mm (BCP-9265) 4 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 5mm Daisy Flower Rondelle Green Dark Olivine (BCP-9275) 8 (1 package) - Czech Glass Beads 5mm Daisy Flower Rondelle Green Peridot Opal (BCP-9272) 2 (1 package) - Czech Pressed Glass Beads 6 x 2mm Rondelle Spacers "Olivine" Green (BCP-4673) 1 (1 package) - Lucite Flower Large Focal Bead Translucent Blue 35mm (BCP-4202) 3 (1 package) - Lucite Gilia Star Flowers Matte Crystal Frost Light Weight 17mm (BCP-4204) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Vinca Flowers Matte Bright Yellow Light Weight 14mm (BCP-4221) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Gilia Star Flowers Matte Lilac Purple Light Weight 17mm (BCP-4205) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Vinca Flowers Matte Aqua Blue Light Weight 14mm (BCP-4215) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Marigold Flowers Matte Aqua Blue Light Weight 10mm (BCP-4251) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Violet Flowers Matte Yellow Topaz Light Weight 15mm (BCP-4234) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Beech Leaves Matte Peridot Bright Green Light Weight 23mm (BCP-4316) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Vinca Flowers Matte Light Peridot Green Light Weight 14mm (BCP-4222) 2 (1 package) - Lucite 18mm Gilia Star Flower Light Blue Matte (BCP-4207) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Gilia Star Flowers Matte Rose Pink Light Weight 17mm (BCP-4206) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Vinca Flowers Matte Deep Sapphire Blue Light Weight 14mm (BCP-4225) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Violet Flowers Matte Siam Red Light Weight 15mm (BCP-4233) 6 (1 package) - Lucite Marigold Flowers Matte Peach Orange Light Weight 10mm (BCP-4258) 2 (1 package) - Lucite Vinca Flowers Matte Dark Amethyst Purple Light Weight 14mm (BCP-4217) 10 (1 package) - Miyuki Delica Seed Beads 10/0 "Opaque Yellow" (DBM-0721) 6 (1 package) - Czech Seed Beads 6/0 Olive Green Opaque (BCS-6644) 7 (1 package) - Czech Seed Beads 6/0 Sunshine Yellow Opaque (BCS-6540) 48 (1 package) - Czech Seed Beads Size 11/0 Lime Green Foil Lined (BCS-1611) 13 (1 package) - Czech Seed Beads 11/0 Mix Lot L.A. Sunset Orange (BCS-1594) 1 (1 package) - Sterling Silver Large Daisy Flower Toggle Clasp 16mm (FCL-3136) 3 (1 package) - Sterling Silver Open Jump Rings 4mm Heavy 19 ga. (FJR-3043) 2 (1 package) - Sterling Silver Beading Cone Multi-Strand Reducer (FCO-1002) 2 (1 package) - Sterling Silver Wire & Thread Protectors Guards .031 (FCR-4149)

Instructions:

1. The total length of this necklace is roughly twenty inches long, including clasp, but the woven tube is seventeen inches long. To create the tube part of this necklace, first cut about twelve feet of the olive green K.O. thread (you will need to add thread partway through). Run the thread through your thread conditioner several times, and thread it through a needle of your choosing.


2. About eight inches away from the end of your thread, attach a bead stopper or a piece of tape. Onto your needle, thread nine of the DB-MIX03 11/0 green mix Delica seed beads in a variety of shades.


3. Pass through all of the beads again, and pull tight to form a circle.


4. Pass through the last bead once more and thread a bead. Skipping a bead, thread your needle through the next bead in the circle.


5. Add another Delica, skip a bead, and thread your needle through the next bead in the circle.


6. Repeat this pattern, moving up the tube, until you reach seventeen inches. Remember, part of the way through weaving the tube you will have to add to your working thread. To do this, you must wait until there is only about eight inches of working thread left. Tie an overhand knot to the thread nearest to your needle between two beads. Weave the remainder of the thread through the rest of your work for a couple of inches and trim off excess with a sharp pair of scissors. Onto your needle, thread another eight to ten feet of waxed thread. Starting a couple of inches away from where you need to be, tie another overhand knot between two beads and weave your thread through the beads until you get to where you left off with your tube.


7. Stop weaving when you have reached seventeen inches, or your desired length. Leave a generous tail of thread (approximately eight inches long to match the opposite end).


8. For the next part, adding the tendrils, flowers, and leaves, you may arrange them in whatever way you would like. You may add more or less elements, depending on the look that you prefer. The most important part, no matter what design you choose, is to lay out your design against the tube before you start weaving.


9. When you are ready to begin weaving the flowers and leaves onto the tube, thread your needle with another eight to ten feet of waxed K.O.


10. Weave your thread into the beads near the center of the tube.


11. Beginning in the very center of the tube, measure three beads to the right of a central bead. Weave your thread through the beads until your needle comes out through this bead, three beads to the right of center.


12. String eleven of the DB-MIX03 11/0 green mix Delica seed beads in a variety of shades, followed by a large, light blue lucite focal flower (BCP-4202), a five-pointed white lucite flower (BCP-4204), a small peach lucite flower (BCP-4258), a 6/0 sunshine yellow Czech seed bead (BCS-6540), and a matte tangerine seed bead from the L.A. Sunset Orange Czech 11/0 seed bead mix (BCS-1594).


13. Thread back through the yellow seed bead, the peach flower, the white flower, and the large light blue flower. String eleven more of the DB-MIX03 11/0 green mix Delica seed beads in a variety of shades, and weave back into the tube at the bead that is three beads to the left of the central bead. Your pendant is now hanging from two different points, just left and right of center. This makes it more stable and less likely to flip over.


14. The following instructions will be for weaving only one side of the necklace, the opposite side will be just a mirror image of the first. *VERY IMPORTANT* The woven tube is, by nature, twisted. In order for your flowers and leaves to hang straight, you must compensate for the twist in the tube by moving up or down a row when you are adding your flowers, leaves, and tendrils. Just keep the tube straight as you are working and periodically hold your work up to make sure that everything is hanging correctly.


15. Moving left, weave your thread four beads away from the left "arm" of the pendant. String twenty-three of the mixed green Delicas (DB-MIX03), a dark pink 12mm glass flower (BCP-9234), a light purple "ghost" 9mm glass flower (BCP-9243), a bright yellow Delica (DBM-0721), and a matte tangerine seed bead from the L.A. Sunset Orange Czech 11/0 seed bead mix (BCS-1594).


16. Pass your thread back through the bright yellow seed bead, both of the glass flowers and seven of the green mix beads.


17. String three green mix seed beads, passing back through the first two and up the "stem" of your flower. This is your first "leaf".


18. Pass your thread up the stem four more beads, and add another "leaf", this time making it four beads long.


19. Pass back up through the stem eight beads, and create another leaf with three beads.


20. Once again, pass back up through the stem and back into your tube weaving. From here, whenever we refer to making a delica leaf, refer to the instructions from the three steps previous to this one.


21. Weave over to the left, two beads away from your last flower, and string three of the green mix seed beads, a large light green lucite leaf (BCP-4316), and another single green seed bead. Pass your thread back through the lucite leaf and the stem, and back into your tube weaving.


22. Weave over to the left of the leaf, four beads away from it. String seven of the 11/0 lime green, foil lined Czech seed beads (BCS-1611), a glass olivine vitrail leaf (BCP-9121), a 9mm glass aqua quartz vitrail flower (BCP-9260), a tiny turquoise glass flower spacer (BCP-9272), and a bright yellow Delica (DBM-0721).Pass back through the two flowers, the glass leaf, and the seven seed beads and back into your weaving.


23. Weave over to the left, four beads away from your last flower, and string two of the mixed green delicas (DB-MIX03), a 6/0 olive green seed bead (BCS-6644), a light blue five-pointed lucite flower (BCP-4207), a violet-shaped Siam red lucite flower (BCP-4233), and a bright yellow delica (DBM-0721). Pass back through the two lucite flowers and the three seed beads and back into your weaving.


24. Weave over to the left, four beads away from your last flower, and string twenty-one of the mixed green delicas (DB-MIX03). Add a clear olivine leaf (BCP-9120), and pass back up through the stem, adding seed bead leaves (we added three to this stem).


25. Weave over to the left, three beads away from your last stem, and add four mixed green delicas (DB-MIX03), an olive green glass rondelle (BCP-4673), a yellow AB 12mm glass flower (BCP-9217), a baby pink 9mm glass flower (BCP-9230), and a matte tangerine seed bead from the L.A. Sunset Orange Czech 11/0 seed bead mix (BCS-1594). Pass your thread back up throught the flowers and the stem and back into your weaving.


26. Weave over to the left, four beads away from the last flower, add a "ghost" peridot glass leaf (BCP-9369), and one of the mixed green delicas. Pass back through the leaf and into your weaving.


27. Weave your thread over four beads and up one. Directly onto the tube, weave a white five-pointed lucite flower (BCP-4204), a violet-shaped yellow lucite flower (BCP-4234), a tiny turquoise glass flower (BCP-9272), and a bright yellow delica (DBM-0721). Pass back through the flower into the tube weaving.


28. Weave over two, and down one bead, and string eighteen of the mixed green delicas (DB-MIX03), a green lucite flower (BCP-4222), a small peach lucite flower (BCP-4258), and a translucent orange seed bead from the L.A. sunset mix (BCS-1594). Weave back up through the flowers and the stem, making a few seed bead leaves on your way up.


29. Weave over, five beads to the left and string three of the 11/0 lime green, foil lined Czech seed beads (BCS-1611), a tiny turquoise glass flower (BCP-9272), a pink and blue 12mm glass flower (BCP-9244),


30. and a 6/0 sunshine yellow Czech seed bead (BCS-6540). Pass your thread back up through the flower and into your weaving.


31. Weave over to the next bead to the left in the tube and add a small ghost olivine leaf (BCP-9121).


32. Weave over three more beads to the left and string an emerald green leaf out of the glass evergreen leaf mix (BCP-9366). Weave back into the tube about three beads away from your last leaf.


33. String seventeen of the green mix delicas and a clear flower out of the pastel glass spring flower mix (BCP-9265). Weave back up the stem, adding a few delica leaves on your way up.


34. Weave over to the left only one bead away from your last flower, and add two of the mixed green delicas (DB-MIX03), one olive green 6/0 seed bead (BCS-6644), a five-pointed pink lucite flower (BCP-4206), a round yellow lucite flower (BCP-4221), a tiny turquoise glass flower (BCP-9272), and a matte tangerine seed bead from the L.A. Sunset Orange Czech 11/0 seed bead mix (BCS-1594). Pass your thread back up through the flowers and the stem and back into your weaving.


35. Weave over five beads to the left of the last flower and string four 11/0 lime green, foil lined Czech seed beads (BCS-1611), an olivine vitrail glass leaf (BCP-9105), and a single green delica. Pass back up through the leaf and stem.


36. Weave over three beads to the left and string three of the mixed green delicas, a royal blue lucite flower (BCP-4225), a small aqua blue lucite flower (BCP-4251), and a bright yellow delica (DBM-0721). Pass your thread back through the flowers and the stem and into the tube.


37. Weave your thread four beads over and string fourteen of the mixed green delicas and a small ghost olivine glass leaf (BCP-9121). Pass back through the stem, adding two delica leaves on your way up.


38. Weave over three beads to the left and string two of the mixed green delicas, a 6/0 olive green seed bead (BCS-6644), a five-pointed purple lucite flower (BCP-4205), a small peach lucite flower (BCP-4258), and a matte translucent coral seed bead from the L.A. Sunset Orange Czech 11/0 seed bead mix (BCS-1594). Pass your thread back up through the flowers and the stem and back into your weaving.


39. Weave over two beads to the left and string three of the 11/0 lime green, foil lined Czech seed beads (BCS-1611), a clear olive green leaf out of the glass evergreen leaf mix (BCP-9366), and three more of the 11/0 lime green, foil lined Czech seed beads (BCS-1611). Thread your needle back into the tube three beads to the left of your last exit.


40. Weave over four beads to the left and string three of the 11/0 lime green, foil lined Czech seed beads (BCS-1611), a tiny olive green glass flower spacer (BCP-9275), a light purple ghost 9mm glass flower (BCP-9243), and a 6/0 sunshine yellow seed bead (BCS-6540). Pass back through the flower and the stem and back into the tube.


41. Weave over three beads to the left and string eleven mixed green delicas and an olivine leaf (BCP-9120). Pass back through the stem into the tube, adding two delica leaves on your way up.


42. Weave over one bead and up one bead. Weave a small glass flower from the spring mix (BCP-9265) directly on to the tube.


43. Weave over five beads and down one. String a translucent aqua lucite flower (BCP-4215), a tiny olive green glass flower spacer (BCP-9275), and a matte tangerine seed bead from the L.A. Sunset Orange Czech 11/0 seed bead mix (BCS-1594). Pass your thread back up through the flowers and back into your weaving.


44. Weave over six beads to the left and string ten mixed green delicas and a light green glass flower from the spring mix (BCP-9265). Pass back through the stem into the tube, adding a delica leaf as you go up.


45. Weave over five beads to the left and string a 10mm olivine vitrail glass leaf (BCP-9105) and a single bead from the mixed green delicas. Pass your thread back up through the leaf into the tube.


46. Weave over five beads to the left and string a dark amethyst lucite flower (BCP-4217), a small peach lucite flower (BCP-4258), and a 6/0 sunshine yellow seed bead (BCS-6540). Pass your thread back through the flowers and into the tube.


47. Weave over four beads to the left and string eight mixed green delicas, passing back up through the stem and into the tube, adding a delica leaf as you go up.


48. Weave over four more beads to the left and add a small ghost olivine leaf (BCP-9121). Weave the rest of your thread back through the tube weaving.


49. Thread your needle once more and complete the other half of the necklace. Once this is done, weave the rest of your thread through the beads in the tube.


50. Thread the "tail" at one end of your tube through your needle and string it through one of the sterling silver cones. Pull it snug so that the cone fits neatly on the end of your tube weaving.


51. Pass your thread through a thread protector and back down into the cone. Weave it through the the last row of the tube, back up through the cone, and back through the thread protector. Do this several times until the thread protector and the cone are securely attached to the tube. Tie an overhand knot with your thread, between two beads, and weave the remainder of the thread through the tube.


52. With another cone and another thread protector, do the same to the opposite side of the necklace.


53. Open two jump rings and thread each of them through each of the thread protectors, but do not close them yet.


54. To one of the jump rings, add the loop part of the clasp. To the other jump ring, add another jump ring. Close the first jump ring and open the second. To this jump ring, add the toggle part of the clasp.


55. Close both jump rings.

 

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