Dichroic Glass Necklace

Why We Love This Tutorial: This tutorial demonstrates just one of the ways that you can use wire (instead of a pinch bail) to create a bail for front drilled pendants. The necklace is a simply strung, long necklace using tiny size 15/0 seed beads as spacers (as opposed to knotting – which of course…

Step 1. Take two pieces of 18ga wire approx. 20cm long, and form swirls at both ends of each wire (start the swirls off with round nose pliers, then continue them with flat nose pliers). Step 2. Connect the two wires togetehr at one end near the swirls by wrapping the 24ga wire around 5…

Why We Love This Tutorial: This is a very simple double-strand necklace, simply strung on tigertail. This is quite a dainty necklace, and is designed to be worn as a choker; it is only about 38cm long so you may wish to adjust this for your own sizing. We have used one of our new…

Why We Love This Tutorial: This is a simply strung, long necklace that you can complete in less than an hour! We would often knot between each gemstone bead with this style of necklace, but by using tiny 15/0 seed beads we get the same effect with a lot less effort (and time, yay!). We’ve…

As seen in Creative Beading Magazine Vol 11, No 3.

Why We Love This Tutorial: For those who missed out on the class! We love this technique as it is so easy and quick once you have the technique mastered. You can make as many strands as you like…  this turquoise design has five strands of approximately 60cm long each. Whereas the design we made…