The Selkie Necklace

What You'll Need

• 32 (1 package) - Blue Agate Large Smooth Nugget Beads (SPAG-52)


• 35 (1 package) - Olive Jade Serpentine Gem Round Beads 4mm (SPSE-04)


• 1 (1 package) - Vintaj Natural Brass Jump Rings 10mm Open 16 Gauge (FJR-5331)


• 10 (1 package) - Vintaj Natural Brass Jump Rings 5.25mm Open 18 Gauge (FJR-5352)


• 1 (1 package) - Vintaj Natural Brass Jump Rings 7.25mm Open 16 Gauge (FJR-5372)


• 1 (1 package) - Vintaj Natural Brass Blank Curved Buckle Connector Embellishment 48mm (FCO-4653)


• 1 (1 package) - Vintaj Natural Brass Etched Creative Bar Toggle 29mm (FCL-4650)


• 58 (1 package) - Antiqued Brass Diamond Cut Out 4mm Round Beads (BMB-5172)


• 1 (1 package) - Vintaj Natural Brass Head Pins 21 Gauge 2 Inch (FHP-5522)


• 4 feet - Vintaj Natural Brass Chain 4mm x 5mm Petite Etched Cable Chain (CHA-7135)


• 3 ft (1 package) - Soft Flex Best Beading Wire Antique Brass .019 Inch - 30 Ft. (XCR-5010)


• 6 (1 package) - Vintaj Natural Brass Round Crimp Beads 2mm (FCR-1467)

Instructions:

1. Begin by sorting your blue agate beads into three size categories: small, medium, and large.


2. Cut three pieces of Soft Flex at one foot long each. Secure one end of each strand with a bead stopper.


3. Onto the first strand, using the small blue agate beads, string the following: an antique brass bead, a serpentine, an antique brass bead, and an agate. Repeat this stringing pattern nine more times and add at the end an antique brass, a serpentine, and finally another antique brass. Secure end and set this strand aside.


4. Onto the second strand, using the medium blue agate beads, string the following: an antique brass bead, a serpentine, an antique brass bead, and an agate. Repeat this stringing pattern ten more times and add at the end an antique brass, a serpentine, and finally another antique brass. Secure end and set this strand aside.


5. Onto the third strand, using the large blue agate beads, string the following: an antique brass bead, a serpentine, an antique brass bead, and an agate. Repeat this stringing pattern ten more times and add at the end an antique brass, a serpentine, and finally another antique brass. Secure end and set this strand aside.


6. Cut six pieces of chain: One at one and a half inches, one at two inches, one at two and a half inches, one at twelve and a half inches, one at thirteen inches, and one at thirteen and a half inches.


7. Attach a 5.25mm jump ring to each end of the three longer pieces of chain.


8. Attach a 5.25mm jump ring to one end of each of the three shorter pieces of chain.


9. Open a 7.25mm jump ring and thread it through the last link of all three shorter pieces of chain, the ends opposite to the jump rings. Close this jump ring again.


10. Thread the natural brass etched toggle bar, face down, onto a headpin. Create a wrapped loop and trim off excess wire.


11. Open a 5.25mm jump ring and use it to join the wrapped loop on the toggle bar to the 7.25mm jump ring containing the three pieces of short chain.


12. Using a bail-making plier or just your round-nose pliers, bend the curved buckle connector in half, leaving some space in the bend.


13. Open the 10mm jump ring and thread it through the bend in the buckle connector. Close jump ring.


14. Using a pair of nylon jaw pliers, squeeze the two halves of the buckle connector together.


15. Open the three jump rings at one end of the three long pieces of chain.


16. Connect them to the 10mm jump ring in order of shortest to longest, from the inside of the necklace to the outside.


17. Remove the bead stoppers from the smallest strand of agate. Add a crimp bead to either end, but do not crimp yet.


18. Thread one end of the strand through the jump ring on the innermost, shortest of the longer pieces of chain, back through the crimp bead, and crimp.


19. Thread the other end of this strand through the jump ring on the innermost, shortest of the short pieces of chain, back through the crimp bead, and crimp.


20. Repeat these steps, connecting the medium strand between the two medium pieces of chain, and the long strand between the longest pieces of chain. Trim off all excess wire.