Chunky Me

The past few days have been so swift it is like the year is in a rush to end… I am so glad you have visited. I have been working with seed beads a lot. This time around I have this multistring and multicolored seed bead necklace.  I collected 6 different colors of beads for this piece.

So, armed with:

·         About a gram of seed beads (mixed color/similar sizes)

·         nylon string

·         scissors

·         2 Silver cones

·         Silver lobster clasp

·         2 medium size red wood beads, I set to work.

Each string is about 24 inches long so that’s a lot of patience with these tiny but very beautiful beads. Since I wanted the necklace chunky I thought 15 or more strands would do the trick. The stringing process is actually not so hard if one has a long wire to use like me who doesn't have the seed bead stringer yet. When finished with stringing the number of strands, it requires more care with holding them together and passing them through the cone and wood bead. I knotted one side of the bunch into a simple note that wouldn’t cause my beads to scatter all over the place, but still easy to remove.

When done with passing both ends of the gathered strands through the silver cones and wood beads, I attached the silver lobster clasp. Below is the outcome.

Cheers