How to Make Handmade Beaded Necklaces

Video Transcript

" Hello my name is Sabirah Parker I am one of the owners of Beadalicious located at 34 East Landgo Street in Baltimore, Maryland on behalf of Expert Village I like to welcome you back to creating beaded jewelry. We will continue with segment sixteen where you would see a demo on constructing a necklace using one of the clasp in the previous segments it will be presented by Denise Baker. Thank you! Alright well again we are working with small items and the best thing for me to do is put my eyes on first. So I can see. Alright in constructing a necklace you build your pattern. You could lay it out in your bead board and then what you want to do is apply your pendent once you got half of your pattern set. You pick your pendent and you apply it nicely and you finish off your pattern on the other side. You want to make sure that you count your beads and that all match. In number, size, and location. Once you have created that pattern you could finish your ...i could not find that molding guess what I'm not going to look for it. This is how it would look and once you come up to the other side and you complete this side completely then you want to add your clasp. A simple matter take your wire, pick up your crimp bead, and apply your clasp. One part of your toggle goes on then you stick it back to the crimp bead. Pull it tight. Make sure that you have enough room to stick your crimper line, make sure that you turned it right. You won't to pleat and fold. Therefore finishing your clasp. Sometimes your wire would go back through your holes and sometimes they won't. If a hole of a bead is to small and you just cut the excess wire off and pull through. Now you have your finish necklace. It is a simple matter in order to keep from losing your wire or your beads from the other side your want to keep your crimp a bead stopper on and once your finish you would have a lovely piece of jewelry to enjoy."