Strawberry quartz, fuchsite, garnet and mother-of-pearl: a necklace like a marriage of stones, where shapes and colours answer one another. Its hook clasp is worn at the front, or slipped to the side. With each position, the drape changes and other stones catch the light.
For lovers of natural stones who enjoy a piece of jewellery that changes with the way it is worn. And for a holiday gift chosen stone by stone.
Tools needed: flat-nose pliers, round-nose pliers, wire cutters
Cut about 60 cm of beading wire. String a crimp bead, then the hook clasp, and pass back through the crimp bead. Slide it up against the clasp, then flatten it with flat-nose pliers. Place a knot cover over it and close it gently to hide the crimped bead.
Then string 6 round strawberry quartz beads 6 mm, placing 5 gold ethnic pendants between them.
Thread a mother-of-pearl bead onto a ball head pin. Bend the wire at a right angle, flush with the bead. Cut, leaving about 8 mm of wire, then form a small loop with round-nose pliers. Repeat to make 4 mounted mother-of-pearl beads.
Open a 6 mm jump ring. Slip the amazonite leaf pendant onto the ring, hook it onto the hook clasp, then close the ring.
Continue stringing with the fuchsite beads. After about two thirds of the beads, add 3 textured gold round beads 6 mm. Continue with the last third of fuchsite.
Then string 6 faceted strawberry quartz donuts, placing 5 gold bicone beads between them.
Finish with the garnet, gold and mother-of-pearl rhythm: garnet, gold bead, garnet, gold bead, mother-of-pearl. Then repeat 3 times the sequence garnet, gold bead, mother-of-pearl. End with garnet, gold bead, garnet. In total: 7 garnets, 6 faceted gold beads and 4 mother-of-pearl drops on head pins.
String a crimp bead, then the oval ring. Pass back through the crimp bead, then through a few beads of the strand. Adjust the wire tension and the spacing between the beads: they touch, but the necklace keeps all its suppleness. Flatten the crimp bead, add the second knot cover, then cut the excess wire.
Open a 5 mm jump ring, slip on the flower pendant and hook it onto the oval ring. Do the same with the diamond-shaped ethnic pendant.
On a ball head pin, thread a fuchsite bead, then the flower bud bead cap: the bead nestles at its heart. Form the loop, then hook it onto the oval ring, between the two pendants.
The clasp is part of the jewellery. Worn at the front, the amazonite leaf meets the flower, the diamond and the lotus bud: together they form a composed pendant. Slide it to the side and the necklace turns: the strawberry quartz, the fuchsite or the garnets then come to the centre. Try both in front of the mirror before choosing.
Strawberry quartz, fuchsite and garnet — traditionally associated with gentleness, calm and vitality
To be reserved alone or with friends!
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