This design took a bit of trial and error to work through, but I am very happy with the end result. It is a fairly simple pattern to make, and requires 4mm and 6mm pearls, 4mm bicone crystals, and 11/0 seed beads. I made this design with both the smaller Czech 11/0 beads (the gold, aqua, and ivory version shown below) as well as larger TOHO 11/0 beads (bronze and green version), and although the design works with either, I think the smaller Czech 11/0 beads look a bit better. The close-up photo of both necklaces provides a good example of how different Czech and TOHO 11/0 bead sizes really are. I plan to include a pattern for matching earrings in my next post. Enjoy!
FREE beading pattern: Palace Pearls
Here are the specific materials I used in these pieces:
| Gold, Ivory, and Aqua version |
Bronze and Green version |
- 4mm and 6mm ivory glass pearls
- 4mm frost turquoise blue AB2X bicone crystals
- metallic gold Czech 11/0 seed beads
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- 4mm and 6mm Swarovski light green pearls
- 4mm metallic iris green bicone crystals
- metallic bronze TOHO 11/0 seed beads
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