How to Make a Tangled Jewels Necklace & Earrings

Published December 2012
Designed By Katie Hacker / Content Supplied by Beadalon

Techniques:

Crimping, Stringing

Materials & Tools:

For Necklace:

Assorted purple and gray beads
Beadalon 7: Bronze, Purple, Black
46 silver Crimp Covers
42 silver #1 Crimp Beads
4 silver #2 Crimp
Silver lobster EZ-Crimp™ Clasp
Wire Nipper
Crimping Tool
Mighty Crimping Tool

For Earrings:

2 purple 6mm fire polished glass rounds
2 purple 6mm MOP chips
2 gray 8mm glass rondelles
2 silver Pinch Bails
6 silver #1 Crimp Beads
2 silver #2 Crimp Beads
8 silver Crimp Covers
2 silver leverback Ear Wires
Purple Beadalon 7
Wire Nipper
Crimping Tool
Mighty Crimping Tool

Necklace How To:

1. Cut two 20 lengths of each color of Beadalon 7.

2.Hold the wires together and attach a #2 Crimp Bead 10 from the wire end; attach a Crimp Cover.

3.On each strand, use #1 Crimp Beads and Crimp Covers to attach beaded stations in a pleasing arrangement.

4.Hold the wires together and attach another #2 Crimp Bead 10 from the other wire end; attach a Crimp Cover.

5.Braid the wire ends together and attach a #2 Crimp Bead ½ from the end; attach a Crimp Cover.

6.Trim off all of the wire ends except for one. Trim the remaining wire end to ¼.

7.Pass the ¼ wire end inside an EZ-Crimp™ clasp end and squeeze the crimp end to attach it.

8.Repeat Steps 5-7 for the other end of the necklace.

Earrings How to:

1.Cut a 3 length of purple Beadalon 7.

2.Attach a Pinch Bail to a gray rondelle.

3.Center the wire through the loop on the Pinch

4.Hold the wires together and attach a #1 Crimp Bead and Crimp Cover.

5.Pass the wires through a chip and another #1 Crimp Bead; attach a Crimp Cover.

6.Leave ½ and attach another #1 Crimp Bead and Crimp Cover.

7.Pass the wires through a fire polished round.

8.Pass the wires through a #2 Crimp Bead, the Ear Wire loop and back through the Crimp Bead. Crimp it, and then attach a Crimp Cover.

9.Repeat Steps 1-8 to make a matching earring.

10.Pass one end of a piece of beading wire through a Crimp Bead, a loop on an Eye Pin, and back through the Crimp Bead. Crimp it. Repeat this step to connect all of the wires to the same Eye Pin loop.

11.Pass the Eye Pin through the wide end of a Beading Cone and make a wrapped loop outside the narrow end of the cone to attach a Lobster Clasp.

12.On one Crinkle Wire, leave 2" and pass the wire through a Crimp Bead, amethyst rondelle and another Crimp Bead; crimp the Crimp Beads to make the first station. Leave 1" and attach a rice pearl station. Alternate rondelle and rice pearl stations 1" apart for 10 stations total.

13.On another Crinkle Wire, leave 1" and pass the wire through a Crimp BEad, seed bead, black diamond, seed bead, Crimp Bead; crimp the Crimp Beads to make the first station. Leave 2 ½" and attach an identical station; repeat for five total stations.

14.On another Crinkle Wire, leave 2" and pass the wire through a Crimp Bead, dark gray bed, Crimp Bead; crimp the Crimp Beads to make the first station. Leave 1" and attach a Pacific opal crystal. Alternate dark gray and Pacific opal beads 1" apart for 10 stations total.

15.On another Crinkle Wire, leave 3" and pass the wire through a Crimp Bead, silver disk, potato pearl, silver disk, Crimp Bead; crimp the Crimp Beads to make the first station. Leave 2 ½" and attach an identical station; repeat for four total stations.

16.On the last Crinkle Wire, leave 1 ½" and pass the wire through a Crimp Bead, Pacific opal crystal, gray disk, Pacific opal crystal, Crimp Bead; crimp the Crimp Beads to make the first station. Leave 2" and attach an identical station; repeat for five total stations.

17.Use Crimp Beads to attach the wire ends to an Eye Pin loop. Pass the Eye Pin through the wide end of a Beading Cone and make a large wrapped loop outside the narrow end of the Beading Cone.

18.To fasten the necklace, place the end loop inside the Lobster Clasp.