This is an earring design to coordinate with the Christmas Diamond Necklace from my last post. These earrings are much quicker to make than the necklace, which is a nice way to test different color schemes before committing to the necklace. Two sizes of bugle beads are required: #2 (5mm) green bugle beads, and #3 (7mm) red bugle beads. I made these in a different color scheme as well, using black and clear/irridescent bugles. 8/0 and 11/0 TOHO seed beads are also required, as are jump rings and ear hooks to finish them off. I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!
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I love making geometric designs with bugle beads! This design uses two different sizes of bugle beads to create the curve in the necklace: #2 (5mm) green bugle beads, and #3 (7mm) red bugle beads. 11/0 and 8/0 seed beads are also required. (I like to use galvanized PermaFinish metallic seed beads from FireMountainGems.com, as they resist tarnishing over time). This necklace took me a while to make (so I only made one), but it was worth the patience. It is a light-weight necklace, and the way the bugles catch the light make it a stunning piece. I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern!
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This is the last post in my “Rondell Radiance” series, where I challenged myself to design a matching bracelet, earrings, and necklace set using a single package of rondelle crystals of different sizes.
After the Rondelle Radiance Bracelet and Earrings from my last 2 posts, I had 17 8x10mm, 3 6x8mm, 15 4x6mm, and 4 3x4mm rondelle crystals left to work with.
This necklace design requires all of the 8x10mm and 4x6mm rondelles I had left, so the only left-over crystals after this challenge are three 6x8mm and four 3x4mm rondelles… not bad! This necklace also requires 11/0 and 8/0 seed beads plus a lobster clasp and two jump rings at both ends. This design makes a 17″ necklace, but can be extended by including more of diamond-shaped “chain” links at the beginning and end.
This necklace design is made in 2 rows, but even making it with only the first row looks nice too.
Since I did not make a bracelet for the bronze/cream piece, I had extra 3x4mm rondelles to include a variation on the first row of the necklace (using 16 3x4mm rondelles instead of the 8/0 seed beads).
This is the 2nd post in my “Rondelle Radiance” series, where I challenged myself to design a matching bracelet, earrings, and necklace set using a single package of rondelle crystals of different sizes.
I wanted to utilize all four rondelle sizes for the earrings, so this is the design I came up with. Making both earrings requires six 8x10mm, six 6x8mm, four 4x6mm, and ten 3x4mm rondelles, plus 11/0 TOHO seed beads and two 8/0 seed beads to connect ear hooks via jump rings. I hope you enjoy this design series, and this free beading pattern. Stay tuned for another upcoming free pattern for the Rondelle Radiance Necklace!
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This design series was inspired by a sale at Michaels on rondelle crystals, packaged in four 7-inch strands of different sized rondelles (8x10mm, 6x8mm, 4x6mm, and 3x4mm). I bought them in several different colors (purple shown here). The packages varied slightly in the number of beads for each size, but generally all packages had a minimum of 23 8x10mm, 29 6x8mm, 37 4x6mm, and 54 3x4mm rondelles.
I thought it would be fun to challenge myself to design a matching bracelet, earrings, and necklace set, using all the beads in the 4 strands (or nearly all). Here is a sneak peak of what I came up with.
FREE beading patterns: Rondelle Radiance matching set
I will post patterns as I finish diagraming them out, but I’ll start with the bracelet (which is my first cuff bracelet design). This bracelet was too wide to close with a traditional lobster clasp, so I tried a 31mm 5-loop slide lock bar clasp (connecting via 3 jump rings to the outer and middle loops). The connection points did not line up perfectly to the loops, but that was solved by using a smaller jump ring to connect to the middle loop, and slightly larger jump rings to connect to the outside loops.
This pattern requires 20 6x8mm, 18 4x6mm, and 40 3x4mm rondelles, plus 11/0 seed beads and six 8/0 seed beads for the jump rings to go through at either end. To finish, you will need a 31mm 5-loop slide lock bar clasp with 2 smaller jump rings (~3mm) and 4 larger jump rings (~6mm). (I created the 3mm jump rings from my 6mm jump rings by snipping about half off and using round nose pliers to close it smaller). This design is constructed with alternating “main” and “secondary” rows, starting and ending with the “main” row. 10 main and 9 secondary rows will make a 7-1/2″ bracelet when using larger/TOHO 11/0 seed beads (like the purple and gold piece). It will be slightly shorter if using smaller Czech 11/0 beads (like the copper/aqua piece, which came out to 7″). I made the light blue piece with 9 main rows and 8 secondary rows for my own smaller wrist, which ended up being also 7″ using TOHO 11/0 beads. You can add alternating rows for length, as long as you end with a “main” row. I hope you enjoy this design series, and this free beading pattern!
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