https://www.cutoutandkeep.net/projects/3-strand-floating-necklace • Posted by mamta r.
This can be done with just one single big bead also instead of seed beads,but the seed beads look more elegant.Hope you like this!
This can be done with just one single big bead also instead of seed beads,but the seed beads look more elegant.Hope you like this!
Cut about 12" transparent wire with the jewelry cutter.Take a crimp bead in the wire,leaving about 2-3" wire on one end,take the flat plyer and press the crimp firmly.
The crimp acts as a stopper for the beads so that they do'nt slide out.The crimp bead will now look flat and squarish.
Take 3 seed beads in the wire after the crimp bead.
Pass the other end of the wire through 2 beads,so that 2 beads are on the top and one below,to look like a triangle.
Pull the wire tight and add another crimp bead after the beads.Press the crimp with the flat plyer.
Depending on how close or far you want the next set,take a crimp again leave some distance and press the crimp with the flat plyer.I left a little more than half an inch distance between 2 sets. Repeat with the beads again as in the first set and crimp again.Keep leaving distance and repeat till the length required. The 3 lengths will vary,1st one short,2nd one longer and the third one longest. Once the 3 strands are made,put them together with the ends of the wire passing through a crimp,a seed bead and crimp again.Pass through the 3 again to make a loop.Press the crimps with the plyer.Cut the remaining extra wires as close to the crimp for a neat finish.Take 4 jump rings linked together through the loop on one end and just one jump ring on the other end of necklace.To make the S shaped hook,all i did was to take a head pin,cut the head part and bent the wire to form an S with the round nose plyer.
This is what the end result looks like,the transparent wire give the illusion of the beads floating!
You can make the length of the necklace longer if you want.