Faceted fluorite beads in soft, translucent shades of lilac, sea green and honey, punctuated by fine gold rondelles. A light choker to wear every day, and an ideal first stringing project to learn how to attach a clasp neatly.
For a gentle gift, made in the favorite stone of the one who will receive it. Or for yourself, to wear alone or layered with a fine chain.
Tools needed: flat-nose pliers, scissors
Don't have flat-nose pliers yet? You'll use them to flatten the crimp beads and for all your future creations.
Add the pink flat-nose pliers — 5.95 €The same necklace in another 4 mm faceted natural stone. Each button adds the stone strand and all the findings from the tutorial. Under each stone, the intention that lithotherapy traditionally associates with it.
Cut about 60 cm of nylon thread. This extra length leaves you enough to attach the clasp comfortably on each side.
At one end of the thread, string a crimp bead, then the clasp, and pass back through the crimp bead. Slide the bead up to the clasp, then flatten it with the flat-nose pliers.
String a gold rondelle, then 5 fluorite beads. So the short end of thread doesn't scratch you, tuck it into the first beads.
Again, string a gold rondelle and 5 fluorite beads. Keep going until you reach the length you want. Here, a necklace of about 40 cm.
String a crimp bead, then the other end of the clasp, and pass back through the crimp bead. Thread the end back through the last beads, about 4 beads. Check that your strand stays supple and fluid, then flatten the crimp bead. Trim the excess thread. Your necklace is finished.
Before flattening the last crimp bead, hold the necklace by one end and let it hang. The beads should touch without the thread being taut: that's what gives a soft drape. Too tight and the necklace stiffens; too loose and the thread shows between the beads.
Fluorite — traditionally associated with clarity and balance
To be reserved alone or with friends!
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