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Glamour Girl
Necklace
Jean Campbell
Originally published in
Beadwork December 2005/January 2006
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Glamour Girl
Necklace
This princess necklace project not only gives
you a chance to stitch beads together to make
a beaded bead, you get to string them, too.
Brilliant!
Jean Campbell
Materials
Tools
251 vitrial 4mm Swarovski crystal bicones
4 amethyst 6mm Swarovski crystal rounds
4 amethyst 8mm Swarovski crystal rounds
5 rose AB 2×7mm Swarovski crystal bicones
6 rose 10mm Swarovski 2-hole spacers
Sterling silver 2-strand box clasp with amethyst inset
5 sterling silver 2mm crimp tubes
80” of .014 beading wire
Moss green PowerPro beading thread
Children’s Fiskars scissors
Big Eye needle
Wire cutters
Crimping pliers
Pink or purple Sharpie marker
Bead stop (alligator clip or Bead Stopper)
Techniques
Right-angle weave, stringing, crimping
18”
Finished Size
BEADED BEAD
Step 1: Use 3’ of thread to string 1 rose, 1 vitrial, 1 rose, and 1
vitrial. Pass through all the beads again to make a square
and exit from the first rose strung. Note: use tight tension
throughout.
Step 2: String 1 vitrial, 1 rose, and 1 vitrial. Pass down
through the rose you just exited, through the first vitrial
just strung, and up through the rose just strung.
Step 3: String 1 vitrial, 1 rose, and 1 vitrial. Pass up through
the rose you just exited, through the first vitrial just
strung, and down through the rose.
Step 4: String 1 vitrial. Pass up through the first rose strung in
Step 1. String 1 vitrial and pass down through the last rose
strung in Step 3 and through the first vitrial just strung
(Figure 1).
Step 5: Work another round of right-angle weave off the
round you made in Steps 1–4. Begin by stringing 1 vitrial,
one 6mm amethyst, and 1 vitrial; pass through the last vitrial strung in Step 4 and the first vitrial just strung. Continue around, stringing 1 vitrial and one 6mm amethyst
in each stitch. Connect the ends of the round as in Step 4
and exit from a 6mm amethyst (Figure 2).
Step 6: Work a third round using all vitrial bicones (Figure
3). Exit from the second vitrial strung in this step and pass
through the 4 outermost vitrial to secure the bottom of
the beaded bead (Figure 4).
Step 7: Weave through all the beads in Steps 1–6 again until
the bead holes are full and the beaded bead is rock hard.
Trim the thread. Use the marker to color any unsightly
thread. Set the beaded bead aside.
STRINGING
Step 1: Cut five 16” lengths of beading wire.
Step 2: Pair two of the wires and clip them together at one
end using a bead stop. Use both wires together to string
20 vitrial, the top hole of a spacer, 6 vitrial, the top hole
of a second spacer, 6 vitrial, and the top hole of a third
spacer.
Separate the two wires and use one of these wires to
string 9 vitrial, one 8mm amethyst, and 9 vitrial. Use the
other wire to string 11 vitrial, one 8mm amethyst, and
11 vitrial.
Use both wires to string the top hole of a fourth spacer,
6 vitrial, the top hole of a fifth spacer, 6 vitrial, the top
hole of a sixth spacer, and 20 vitrial. Use a bead stop to
secure the wire ends.
Step 3: Pair two additional wires and clip them together at
one end using a bead stop. Use both wires to string 20
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Figure 1
Figure 2
wire 1
Figure 3
wire 3
wire 2
Figure 4
wire 4
wire 5
Figure 5
vitrial and the bottom hole of the first spacer strung in
Step 2. String 6 vitrial, the second spacer, 6 vitrial, and
the third spacer.
Separate the two wires and use one of these wires to
string 13 vitrial, one 8mm amethyst, and 13 vitrial. Pair
this wire with the fifth length of wire cut in Step 1. Pass
both wires through the second hole of the fourth spacer,
string 6 vitrial, the fifth spacer, 6 vitrial, the sixth spacer,
and 20 vitrial (Figure 5). Use a bead stop to secure the
wire ends.
Step 4: There should now be two loose wires hanging from
opposite spacers at the bottom of the necklace. String 18
vitrial on each. Use both wires to string one 8mm amethyst, the beaded bead, 1 rose, 1 vitrial, and 1 crimp tube.
Snug the beads, crimp the tube, and trim.
Step 5: Hold the piece against your neck to check for length,
adding 1” to account for the width of the clasp, then add
or subtract vitrial bicones at each end to adjust. String 1
crimp tube on each set of paired wires (you’ll be stringing 4 crimp tubes for the 8 wires). Pass through the clasp
loops and back through the tubes, crimp, and trim. (
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Crimping
String a crimp tube and pass through
the connection finding. Pass back
through the tube, leaving a short tail.
Use the back notch of a crimping pliers
to pinch the tube into a U, leaving a wire on each side
of the bend. Rotate the tube 90° and use the front
notch to form the pinched tube into a clean cylinder.
Right-Angle
Weave
(Single Needle)
String 4 beads and pass
through them again to form
the first unit. For the rest of
the row, string 3 beads, pass
through the last bead passed
through in the previous unit,
and the first two just strung;
the thread path will resemble a figure-eight, alternating
directions with each unit. To begin the next row, pass
through the last 3 beads strung to exit the side of the
last unit. String 3 beads, pass through the last bead
passed through, and the first bead just strung. *String 2
beads, pass through the next edge bead of the previous
row, the last bead passed through in the previous unit,
and the last 2 beads just strung. Pass through the next
edge bead of the previous row, string 2 beads, pass
through the last bead of the previous unit, the edge
bead just passed through, and the first bead just strung.
Repeat from * to complete the row then begin a new
row as before.
Jean Campbell is the founding editor of Beadwork
magazine and cofounder of Shiny Bright Objects
(www.shinybrightobjects.com).
RESOURCES
Check your local bead shop for any of these materials or
contact:
Clasp: Star’s Clasps, (800) 207-2805, www.starsclasps.com.
Spacers: The Bead Monkey, (952) 929-4032, www.thebeadmonkey.com.
Glamour Girl Necklace originally published in Beadwork, December/January 2006. ©Interweave Press, LLC Not to be reprinted. All rights reserved
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