Enjoy a video tutorial to go with the PDF diagram of this design! This is a new design, beaded up in festive Christmas colors with elements resembling Christmas tree garlands. In this piece, I used metallic gold (Permafinish) 11/0 TOHO seed beads and Czech fire-polished dipped decor round crystals (6mm emerald green, and 4mm in 3 colors: emerald green, garnet red, and opaque-to-translucent metallic gold). In the blue and silver piece, I used 4mm Czech round crystals in two colors instead of three (blue and light blue). The diagram illustrates how to make the necklace in 3 rows, including clasp. This design works best as a short necklace. I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!
Materials
The Christmas colored example is about 15 inches long, which required eighteen 6mm round green crystals, eighteen 4mm green crystals, nineteen 4mm gold crystals, and seventy-six 4mm red crystals. The blue and silver piece is about 16.5 inches long and is made connecting the clasp via jump rings instead of sewing the clasp into a loop. Being slightly longer than the Christmas necklace, the blue and silver piece required more round Czech crystals: twenty 6mm crystals, twenty 4mm blue crystals and 105 4mm light blue crystals. I plan to post another pattern for matching earrings soon.
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Video Tutorial
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I love your designs, and the diagrams make it easy even for a beginner like me! Thank you so much for posting all these great patterns.
This is beautiful. Again, can it be converted into an ornament cover and if so, how?
so lovely can
can’t wait to do this. I follow you a
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Vielen Dank für Deine tollen Veröffentlichungen. Ich bin sehr geistert davon! Ich finde es sehr großzügig, dass Du Dein Hobby, Deine Ideen und Deine Designs mit uns teilst!
Herzlichen Dank!
Thank you for sharing your patterns! It’s so nice of you! Blessed Be!
Hi there,
I happened upon your website a couple of weeks ago, and I managed to bead my first entirely made seed bead necklace which was this cascade design. I followed your YouTube video tutorial for it and opted to use all matte jet-black beads. WOW it came out so cool and looks rather Victorian in matte black. I opted to use the jump rings to add some thin 1/4 in. organza sheer ribbon as a closure for comfort. Had a few hiccups but nothing major. For not knowing anything about beading jewelry prior, I am so happy with it. I appreciate your sharing these patterns. I will be trying more. Thank you!