Midnight Garden Dance Necklace Tutorial

Use 5-minute two-part epoxy to glue the Czech glass 32mm round triple heart leaf jet with platinum paint button to a piece of bead backing and allow to dry.

Using 4mm round pearls in Dark Grey, create a two-seed-bead backstitch around the button. Create another row of two-seed-bead-backstitch around the button using white pearls from the 3mm Crystal Mix Black Tie Designer Blend. Create a third and final row of two-seed-bead backstitch using 8/0 seed beads from the Artbeads Graphite Gray Designer Blend.

Two-Seed-Bead Backstitch Tutorial

Trim the backing, making sure not to cut any of the threads sewn into the piece. Then, cut another piece of backing to match your focal. Attach the backing with a row of gunmetal seed beads using the brick stitch technique.

Brick Stitch Edge Text Tutorial

Add a picot edge using bicones from the 3mm Black Tie Designer Blend.

Picot Edge Tutorial

Glue the Angel Findings antique pewter elongated floral glue-on bail to the back of your focal using the epoxy and allow to dry.

Cut a length of jewelry wire approximately 23 inches long. Slide a sterling silver 2x2mm crimp tube onto one end, followed by a sterling silver 6.10mm open jump ring. Bring the wire back through the crimp tube and crimp in place. Hide the tube with a sterling silver 3mm crimp cover.

Crimp Cover Tutorial

String on a random pattern of seed beads, beads from the 4mm Crystal Mix Black Tie Designer Blend, and TierraCast rhodium Kenyan heishi spacers. For reference, Cynthia added 9-15 seed beads together, followed by either a pattern of one 4mm bicone, a spacer, a 4mm pearl, a spacer, and a 4mm bicone, or a pattern of two 4mm bicones, a spacer, a 4mm pearl, a spacer, and two 4mm bicones. Continue until your strand is the desired length.

Slide a 4x4mm sterling silver crimp tube onto the end of a hand-dyed black, steel gray, and dove gray blend silk ribbon. Then, slide the ribbon end through the jump ring on one end of your beaded strand. Bring the ribbon end back through the crimp tube and flatten the crimp tube to secure the ribbon to the jump ring. Slide your pendant onto both strands. Add a 4mm crimp tube to the end of the ribbon, slide it through the jump ring on the other end of the beaded strand and then back through the crimp tube and flatten the tube to secure the ribbon on this end.

Attach half of the antique silver-plated pewter round floral design toggle clasp to each jump ring on the ends of the necklace.

List of Components:
3mm Crystal Mix Black Tie Designer Blend (ADB0437, qty 2)
4mm Crystal Mix Black Tie Designer Blend (ADB0438, qty 1)
Artbeads Graphite Gray Designer Blend, TOHO 8/0 Round Seed Beads (ADB0395, qty 1)
5810 4mm Round Pearl Dark Grey (5810-GRYDK4, qty 26)
TierraCast Rhodium Kenyan Heishi Spacer (RB-0405, qty 20)
Angel Findings Antique Pewter Elongated Floral Glue-On Bail (FIND-1829, qty 1)
Antique Silver-Plated Pewter Round Floral Design Toggle Clasp (CLASP-0131, qty 1)
Sterling Silver Open Jump Ring - 0.040 x .240 inches (1.00 x 6.10mm) (SS-OJR40-E, qty 2)
Sterling Silver 2 x 2mm Crimp Tube (SS-CRM2, qty 2)
4x4mm Sterling Silver Crimp Tube (SS-CRM12, qty 2)
Sterling Silver 3mm Crimp Cover (SS-CCOV01, qty 2)
Czech Glass 32mm Round Triple Heart Leaf Jet with Platinum Paint Button (BTN-543, qty 1)
Hand-Dyed Silk Black, Steel Gray and Dove Gray Blend (STRNG-0045, qty 1)