Jewelry Making: Red Crystal Necklace & Earrings

We are stringing yet another set of beads to make a necklace in today's blog. As is normally the case, I also make a set of matching earrings to wear with the necklace. Today's set is a lovely warm red one, just in time for the Christmas festivities. We use crystals to offset the beauty of the red beads.

I start with the earrings, setting out the beads as I like and getting two head pins to string them on to.

I find some seed beads to string in between as spacers.

The beads are slipped onto the pins.

I use round-nosed pliers to bend the ends of the pins into loops.

I hook some jump rings into the loops of the earrings so that they will dangle more freely. I also get some French hooks.

The French hooks are looped through the jump rings.

The completed earrings.

I now arrange the beads for the necklace.

I will be using thin wire to string the beads onto.

After stringing the beads, I loop the one end of the wire over a jump ring and slip it back into a crimp bead. I crimp the crimp bead shut with pliers.

I cut the other end of the wire free from the role and end it the same as the first end.

I then slip a lobster clip through the one jump ring.

That concludes the making of this simple jewelry set.

You can watch a compilation video of the above steps on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/ztpSjuKJZ-s

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