Adding a Centerpiece to a Beaded Necklace

Video Transcript

"Okay, now I've strung one half of the necklace with all the different disk beads and we want to go ahead, because this is a simple type of bead, we're going to do a centerpiece. So right now, I'm at the half point of, and ready to go ahead and design my centerpiece. What I'm going to do is probably put a couple silver beads on each side of it so that it can dangle nice and it won't be stuck in between the beads and it will hang just right in the center of your necklace. This next clip is, we're going to go ahead and string the centerpiece on. I'm going to string a silver bead first, and that will go there. I will get a headpin with another silver bead on the bottom half of it and then the large bead and then another silver bead on top, so it looks like so. What I like to do is get your cutter and leave about a quarter inch off the end here, trim it, and then get your needle nose pliers that have the little round tip nose, get the end here and I curl it and put the end that's here, into the silver bead. Not completely all the way in, but tight in there so that it makes like a little loop. You can see how I did that. Then I grab a hold of it here, kind of line it up, and put it in there, then it will be ready for your necklace. You want to make sure that it's kind of tight so that you don't have to worry about the string threading through. You can see that, where it's kind of in the silver bead. So then we go ahead and string it to the center of your necklace. That's the beginning of the second half of your necklace now."