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FREE beading pattern for Garland Necklace

FREE beading pattern: Garland Necklace
FREE beading pattern: Garland Necklace

Enjoy a free video tutorial to go with the PDF diagram for this design! I absolutely love how this necklace turned out. This design took a while to work out the right spacing for everything, but the result is gorgeous… and one of my favorites. And now I’m sharing it with you all for free! I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern.

Materials

For this Necklace, you will need superduos (in two colors), 11/0 and 8/0 TOHO seed beads, 4mm and 6mm crystals (round or bicone), and a clasp to connect with jump rings. A 16-inch necklace (15.5-inch without the clasp) will require eleven 4mm crystals and twelve 6mm crystals. For a longer necklace, you will need one more 4mm and 6mm crystal per inch (approximately). These are the colors used in the examples below:

Superduos Crystals Seed Beads
Christmas colors Chalk Red (from Michaels), and Light Green Metallic Suede (from Jill Wiseman Designs) 4mm and 6mm round crystals, Czech fire-polished glass, translucent clear with half-coat metallic pale gold from Fire Mountain Gems) 11/0 and 8/0 TOHO Permafinish galvanized Starlight (gold) seed beads (from Fire Mountain Gems)
Pink and White Pink and Matte White from Hobby Lobby 4mm and 6mm transparent pink AB bicone crystals (from Fire Mountain Gems) 11/0 and 8/0 TOHO Permafinish galvanized aluminum (silver) seed beads (from Fire Mountain Gems)
Dark Blue Dark blue and Clear AB from Hobby Lobby 4mm and 6mm clear AB bicone crystals (from Fire Mountain Gems) 11/0 and 8/0 TOHO Permafinish galvanized aluminum (silver) seed beads (from Fire Mountain Gems)

More Photos and Demo Video

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Video Tutorial

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Video tutorial: Garland Necklace
Video tutorial: Garland Necklace

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FREE beading pattern for Coral Superduo Earrings

FREE beading pattern: Coral Superduo Earrings
FREE beading pattern: Coral Superduo Earrings

Here is an earring design to coordinate with the Coral Superduo Earrings from my last post. It requires 11/0 seed beads (2 to 3 colors), and Superduo beads (1 – 2 colors, or a coordinating bead mix), plus a 6/0 or 8/0 bead to connect the ear hook via jump ring. The branches of the coraled strands (and each section of the spine) have one less seed bead than in the coraled strands of the necklace/pendant, in order to make this earring component slightly shorter (not too long).

Since these earrings are quicker to make than the necklace, I was able to experiment more with different colors and superduo bead mixes. The “organic” feel of this design lends itself well to designer superduo bead mixes in a family of colors and varying finishes (matte, gloss, textured, etc). I love how they turned out! I hope you enjoy this free beading pattern.

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FREE beading pattern for Coral Superduo Necklace

FREE beading pattern: Coral Superduo Necklace
FREE beading pattern: Coral Superduo Necklace

One more design for the holidays! I was curious how superduo beads would look on a “coraled” pendant, and I love how it turned out! They resemble tri-petal florets on the end of each coral branch, and look great with either two accent colors or one. This design requires only TOHO 11/0 seed beads (two to three colors) and superduo beads (one or two accent colors).

In the red/green piece, I used a base color of silver (Permafinish galvanized aluminum TOHO 11/0) with two accent colors of red and green (requiring matching seed and superduo beads in both colors). In the purple/rose-gold piece I used a rose-gold base color with one accent color of purple (requiring purple seed and superduo beads). The last aqua/white piece was made with smaller Czech 11/0 seed beads, but the thread showed a little more on the chain part of the necklace, so I feel TOHO seed beads work slightly better with this design. The aqua/white color scheme did not have a base color – instead I just alternated the 2 colors (requiring matching seed and superduo beads in both colors).

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FREE beading pattern: Christmas Diamond Earrings

FREE beading pattern: Christmas Diamond Necklace
FREE beading pattern: Christmas Diamond Earrings

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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FREE beading pattern: Christmas Diamond Necklace

FREE beading pattern: Christmas Diamond Necklace
FREE beading pattern: Christmas Diamond Necklace

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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