The Bead Stopper™ makes it so much easier to create multiple strand designs! Use a Bead Stopper to keep your strands in place and safe from accidental spills. There's no more need to cry over spilled beads!
Materials Needed:
3g black seed beads
3g dark gray metallic seed beads
3g silver-lined clear seed beads
1 ½” black/white/silver swirl glass pendant
7 black 4mm round glass beads
7 silver #1 crimp beads
Black WildFire™ beading thread
.018” bright Beadalon 49 beading wire
2 mini Bead Stopper™ clips
2 silver eye pins
2 silver beading cones
Silver swivel lobster clasp
Jeweler’s cement
Round-nose pliers
Chain-nose pliers
Wire cutters
Spin-N-Bead
Curved big eye needle
Actual length: 22” with pendant
Instructions:
1. Pour the seed beads into the Spin-N-Bead and thread the needle.
2. Load 16 ½” of seed beads onto the thread, then remove the needle and place a Bead Stopper™ at the thread end. Adjust so there’s 1 ½” of thread at the end. Next, place another Bead Stopper™ after the beads and cut the thread off the spool so there’s 1 1/2” of thread at this end, too.
3. Repeat Step 2 for five total strands, attaching each strand to the same set of Bead Stopper™ clips.
4. Remove one Bead Stopper™ and tie the ends in an overhand knot. Pass the strands through an eye pin and knot them to the eye pin. Add a drop of jeweler’s cement. Once dry, cut off the extra thread.
5. Pass the eye pin through the wide end of a beading cone and make a wrapped loop outside the beading cone to attach the clasp.
6. Cut a 4” piece of beading wire and attach a Bead Stopper to one end. Pass the wire through alternating crimp beads and 4mm beads and the pendant.
7. Pass the wire end through the first bead again to make a beaded loop. Flatten the first crimp bead and cut off any extra wire.
8. Remove the Bead Stopper from the other end of the necklace and pass the necklace through the beaded loop.
9. Finish the other end of the necklace as in Steps 4-5 but make a plain large wrapped loop instead of attaching the clasp.
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