How to Make a Star Necklace

Embellish a bare décolletage with a beaded star necklace.

You have rummaged the fashion jewelry racks to find that perfect necklace, but to no avail. Store bought jewelry sometimes lacks the creativity and personalization possible from homemade alternatives, or sometimes that necklace on the rack is not what you are looking for to wear with your favorite outfit. You can create an inexpensive necklace at home, made from interconnected beaded stars for a one of a kind fashion accessory customized to the size, color and length of your choosing.

Things You'll Need

• Medium-gauge jewelry wire
• Crystal seed beads
• Chain nose pliers
• Jump rings
• Necklace clasp

Instructions

1. Cut the wire for the stars. Use medium-gauge wire and cut nine 10 1/2 -inch-long pieces of wire.

2. Fill each of the wires with the seed beads of your choice. One wire is equal to one star. Make each star a different color, make patterns with the colored beads or make each star the same color. Leave 1/4-inch of each wire end empty.

3. Fill each of the wires with the seed beads of your choice. One wire is equal to one star. Make each star a different color, make patterns with the colored beads or make each star the same color. Leave 1/4-inch of each wire end empty.

4. Repeat the above step to make each of the stars.

5. Open two jump rings and hook one onto opposite points on one star. Keep the jump rings open and hook one point of another star onto each jump ring. Close the rings and add one more ring onto the opposite points of the outer stars. Hook the open rings onto the points of another star. Repeat until you have one long chain of stars.

6. Hook a jump ring onto the point of each of the stars at the left and right ends of the chain. Hook a second jump ring onto one jump ring and a necklace clasp onto the other.

References

• Jewelry-Tools: Jewelry Making -- What a Beginner Needs to Know