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07/29/2013

Fringe Heart Seed Bead Necklace

I have a fun necklace to share with you today that uses the same idea as a bead loom – you can use seed beads to make a beaded design.  These bead strands hang loose in a fringe pattern.  If you enjoy making charms you will find this to be a fun and easy project.  Even if you aren’t experienced, I’ll walk you through basic charm-making and you should have the hang of it pretty quickly!

Heart Fringe Bead Necklace at www.happyhourprojects.com

 

What you will need:

Heart Fringe Bead Necklace at www.happyhourprojects.com

 

  • Heavy-gauge wire – I like 16 gauge, but 18 gauge will work fine for this project.  You only need about 6 inches if you are raiding your existing supplies.
  • 2 inch jewelry head pins
  • Seed beads in 2 or more contrasting colors
  • Jewelry pliers – round-nosed work best, but you can make do with regular pliers
  • Wire cutters
  • Chain

First things first – decide on your design.  You can easily pattern your after mine, or sketch out on paper how you would like your pattern to look.  Let me show you mine again:

Heart Fringe Bead Necklace at www.happyhourprojects.com

 

From the bottom up (this will be the order you add them onto the head pins)

  • Row 1 – 3 white beads
  • Row 2 – 1 white bead, 2 purple beads, 2 white beads
  • Row 3 – 1 white bead, 1 purple bead, 2 white beads, 1 purple bead, 1 white bead
  • Row 4 – 1 white bead, 1 purple bead, 3 white beads, 1 purple bead, 1 white bead
  • Row 5 – 1 white bead, 1 purple bead, 3 white beads, 1 purple bead, 2 white beads
  • Row 6 – same as row 4
  • Row 7 – same as row 3
  • Row 8 – same as row 2
  • Row 9 – same as row 1

Feel free to experiment with other patterns though!

Now – to make each row, you will just need to make a basic hanging charm.

Heart Fringe Bead Necklace at www.happyhourprojects.com

You thread your beads onto the head pin, and make a loop at the top with your round-nosed pliers.  Then, wrap the excess pin around the “neck” of the loop.  Wrap it 2-3 times to secure it, and cut the excess off with wire cutters.  This will give you a closed charm you can string onto any jewelry project.  Do this for each of your bead rows.

When you have all your rows, you need to make the support bar to string it on your necklace.  Cut about a 6 inch length of heavy wire and make a closed loop on one end – the exact way you closed your charms.

Heart Fringe Bead Necklace at www.happyhourprojects.com

Alternate threading a single bead and then a charm onto the bead bar you created, until you have a pattern you are happy with.  Once you like it, close the other end of the bead bar the same way as you did for your charms by looping it off, wrapping it, and trimming off the excess.

Then, just add your chain!  You can either use chain by the inch, or if you bought a finished chain, just cut it in the center, and attach each end to the loops on your bead bar with a jump ring.  That’s it – just enjoy!

Heart Fringe Bead Necklace at www.happyhourprojects.com

I’d love to see any designs you come up with using this tutorial!

Adrianne

Filed Under: Fashion, Jewelry, Necklaces, Tutorials Tagged With: beads, charms, necklace, wire wrapping

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Comments

  1. Iris Boyett says

    07/13/2017 at 9:58 am

    Hello Adrianne.. I was wondering what size seed bead you used? Size #6 etc? I love this and want to make a set.

    Reply
  2. nancy says

    07/04/2015 at 5:06 am

    I love this design so simple but so chic to I made 2 necklaces one with red and black seed beads and the other using turquoise and silver beads they both came out great I wear them all the time and other people comment on them saying how beautiful they are I tell them I got my inspiration from you.

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  3. Calisa Rhose says

    05/01/2014 at 8:38 am

    Such a nice idea for my daughters, niece, sister and/or granddaughters! Thanks, Adrianne.

    Reply
  4. Rebecca, Soap Deli News says

    08/04/2013 at 3:37 pm

    Another great project! Thanks so much for sharing. One of these days I’m going to try my hand at making jewelry.

    Reply
  5. Crystal says

    07/30/2013 at 11:14 pm

    So pretty!! I love it!!

    Reply
  6. Meegan says

    07/30/2013 at 10:44 am

    LOVE your creativity Adrienne! You are so talented!

    Reply
  7. Kelsy says

    07/29/2013 at 1:13 pm

    This is adorable! I love the way it turned out. I have been noticing a lot of this style of necklace lately and your take on it is super cute. ~Kelsy

    Reply
  8. Marilyn says

    07/29/2013 at 12:07 pm

    Adrianne, I LOVE this…what a fun idea. I’ve seen this done with safety pins but never like this! :D

    Reply
  9. Melanie says

    07/29/2013 at 7:42 am

    So pretty! I like the unique shape,

    Reply
  10. Alli says

    07/29/2013 at 7:29 am

    Beautiful and so very elegant!

    Reply

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