Fancy Flora Necklace Beadwork Pattern Download

Description

This elegant necklace uses varying sizes of crystals, pearls, and seed beads to create floral-inspired, herringbone-stitched components that can be used in endless combinations. You can also easily form a bracelet by stitching five or six components and attaching them together in a row with a clasp at the ends.

Finished Size: 15¾
Required Materials:

• 4 g red violet size 15° seed beads (A)
• 4 g opaque gray luster size 15° seed beads (B)
• 7 g mustard-lined yellow luster size 11° seed beads (C)
• 27 champagne 3mm glass pearl rounds (D)
• 9 amethyst 4mm crystal bicones (E)
• 18 burgundy 4mm crystal bicones (F)
• 8 black diamond 4mm crystal 4-hole rose montées (G)*
• 3 Montana blue 6mm crystal 4-hole rose montées (H)*
• 23″ of matte gunmetal 3×6mm oval/3×4.5mm figure-eight chain
• 1 matte gunmetal 6×12mm lobster clasp
• 2 matte gunmetal 6mm jump rings
• Smoke 6 lb braided beading thread

Tools: Size 12 beading needles, Scissors, Wire cutters, 2 pairs of chain- or flat-nose pliers
Technique: circular herringbone stitch, netting, picot, circular peyote stitch
Originally Published: Beadwork, February/March 2015