Tutorial Tuesday: Agate and Crystal Set
At first I wasn’t sure about pairing orange with these light sapphire blue crystal squaredelle spacer beads, but they are really pretty together. It turns out orange and blue are BFF’s!
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Materials
Soft Flex Extreme 24K Gold Plated Wire -32″
14mm Fire Agate Polished Rounds – 18 beads
6mm Gold Plated Light Sapphire Crystal Squaredelles – 20
8mm Light Colorado Topaz Swarovski Crystal Round Bead – 4
18K Gold Plated Toggle with Faceted Light Sapphire Crystal – 2
2x2mm Gold Filled Crimp Tubes – 4
Tools
Necklace Instructions
1. Cut 24″ of beading wire. Squeeze open a bead stopper and attach to one end of your wire.
2. String one crimp tube and one crystal bead.
3. String one squaredelle and one agate bead.
4. Repeat step 3, eight more times.
5. String one squaredelle, one crystal and one crimp tube.
6. Measure 9 inches from one end and crimp tube with regular crimping pliers to hold beads in place.
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7. Bend the design into the natural necklace shape as shown above and crimp the tube on the other side of the beads to hold them in place. Remove bead stopper.
(Tip: If you lay your design straight and crimp you crimp it too tight and will not be able to wear it in the natural curved shape)
8. String one crimp tube and half of the toggle clasp. Pass the wire back through the crimp tube and crimp. Repeat on the other side for the second half of the toggle clasp.
Bracelet Instructions
1. Cut 8″ of beading wire. String one crimp tube and half of the toggle clasp. Pass the wire back through the crimp tube and crimp.
2. String one crystal bead.
3. String one squaredelle and one agate bead.
4. Repeat step 3, eight more times.
5. String one squaredelle and one crystal.
6. String one crimp tube and the other half of the toggle clasp. Pass the wire back through the crimp tube. Bend the design into the natural bracelet shape and crimp.