
Aqua
and Maize Choker
Use two hole beads and memory wire to create
this colorful and unique choker necklace. We only carry these flowers
in aqua, but feel free to pick a different color
of seed bead if maize isn't your favorite color or you're going for
a different mood.
Materials:
1 pkg Two Hole Aqua Flowers (#15401) Qty:
1 pkg Aqua Druks, 4mm (#22034)
Qty:
1 pkg Japanese TR MT Maize AB (#J-754)
Qty:
1 pkg Japanese LND Clear/Sky Blue (#J-778)
Qty:
1 pkg 1.5" Thin silver plated head pins, 24 gauge. (#50582)
Qty:
1 pkg Remembrance Necklace Wire (#49038)
Qty:
Directions:
Cut 2 lengths of memory wire, each 13 inches. Using a flat nose
pliers, make a loop at the end of each wire. Start stringing 9 Maize Seed
Beads, 3 Sky Blue Seed Beads and another 9 Maize Seed Beads. String
a Blue Flower, repeat the pattern until you get to the second Blue Flower.
String through the other flower hole. (The blue flowers have one hole longer
than the other so we will be alternating the stringing through the holes
to come up with the same length at the end, VERY IMPORTANT). After stringing
the pattern and 4 more flowers, you finish the first wire with 9 maize
beads, 3 sky blue and 9 maize beads, and make a loop at the end of the
wire.
Then you start the second wire stringing 9 Maize Seed Beads, 3 Sky
Blue Seed Beads , 9 Maize Seed Beads, then push the wire through the first
flower , keep stringing the japanese beads and pushing the wire through
every flower finish with the seed beads and make a loop at the end of the
wire.
Now for the finishing touch, get a headpin and string a 4mm blue round,
then push through one of the loops you made in the memory wire, string
another 4mm bead, push it through the second loop at the same end, then
string another bead and finally cut whatever is left from the headpin leaving
enough to bend it and finish that end. Repeat the same process with the
other end of the choker, and you got it!
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