Moss Jasper Necklace Set

moss-jasper-necklace-set.jpgGreen is my favorite color, so it’s not hard to imagine why I was drawn to these stones. I was completely inspired by them! This set is easy to create, is subtly classic, but sure to grab attention, too.

Supplies

Tools

Materials

  • about 12 very small gemstone beads (4 mm)
  • about 20 small gemstone beads (7 mm)
  • about 10 small glass beads of a matching color (8 mm)
  • four large coin gemstone beads (16 mm)
  • large focal gemstone bead
  • handful of spacer beads
  • a clasp
  • 2 headpins
  • 2 earwires

Techniques

Instructions

Necklace

1

Design Your Necklace

Though the length of the necklace is up to you, my necklace measures 18.5 inches, and I think this necklace works better short because you really want the center stone to catch attention.

I’ve tapered small as the necklace nears the clasp, and I used my smallest stones (4 millimeters) in that area. I brought my larger stones down to the front and, of course, my largest stone is the center focal bead.

I strung the beads on my wire in a spacer-stone-glass bead-stone-spacer sequence throughout most of the necklace. Toward the front of the necklace, I incorporated a coin stone-spacer-focal stone-spacer-coin stone sequence. I selected a roped silver toggle clasp, which sets it off nicely.

2

Start With the Clasp

String your beading wire through your crimp bead, then through the eye of one half of your clasp; bring it back down through your crimp bead, pull the wire taut and use your crimping pliers to crimp the crimp bead.

3

String Beads

String on your beads in the sequence you laid out.

4

Finish the Necklace

Finish your necklace the same way you started, adding the other half of your clasp. Using your chain-nose pliers, push the wire tail back through a few beads before snipping it off.

Earrings

Keep two 16-millimeter coin stones, two 7-millimeter round stones, two 4-millimeter round stones and two spacers for your earrings. 

1

Add Beads to Headpin

String the beads on head pins in a coin stone-spacer-round stone-smallest round stone sequence.

2

Attach Earwire

Using your round-nose pliers, make a loop at the top of the headpin. Bend it back slightly so it is centered over the headpin. Slip the earwire into the loop and close it.

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