Lately I’ve been eyeballin’ necklaces with lengths of chain for dangles. I love the dramatic look, but when I tried on this one last week I was surprised at just how goth it looked. I was glad I had used the purple beads, rather than the black I’d been originally considering. (These are the beads I dyed purple in this video, btw.)
I am so totally NOT a Goth chick, lol. But I kinda liked the edginess.
It just goes to show you that one design can be dramatically different depending on the components you chose.
Picture this one with delicate gold chain and pink & crystal beads. Yeah, just pretty, not Goth at all.
Can’t you see it?
Play, experiment, have fun and Happy Creating!
Materials:
- 10 beads
- 10 decorative head pins
- 10-20 spacer beads
- 20 jump rings
- 18-inch piece of chain for necklace
- lobster clasp
- 21 inches chain for dangles
- chain nose pliers
- round nose pliers
- wire cutters
Instructions:
- Cut 21-inch piece of chain into four 2-inch pieces, four 2 ½-inch pieces, and one 3-inch piece.
- Arrange beads and spacer beads on 10 decorative head pins in pattern of your choice.
- To make each head pin into a dangle, use chain nose pliers to grasp wire just at point where it exits last bead. Bend wire at 90-degree angle.
- Grasp bend with round nose pliers and wrap wire around pliers as far as possible to start to make a loop. Reposition pliers to finish loop.
- Use wire cutters to trim wire where it crosses beginning of loop.
- Arrange lengths of chain in this pattern: 2”-2”-2 ½”-2 ½”-3”-2 ½”- 2 ½”-2”-2”
- Arrange bead dangles between lengths of chain, beginning and ending with a bead dangle.
- Attach bead dangles and lengths of chain to necklace chain with jump rings.
- Attach a clasp with a jump ring to one end of chain.
Yeah, the Goth look wouldn’t work for me, but I love the purple beads. Am thinking, thinking. . . .
Success!
I haven’t work with chain yet, but I do like the chunkier chain in bracelets and necklaces. I don’t really wear necklaces but I could see this with the right outfit.
I was wondering if you’d share the brand of your round nose pliers. I like the shorter nose and the flat part for grabbing ends to straighten loops My round nose are long (no flat part) and as a beginner, I find I don’t quite have control when making loops. They tend to slip.
Thanks,
Hi Shirlee,
Thanks for stopping by! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the jewelry projects.
My round nose pliers are the CCA 3-in-1 Craft and Jewelry Tool. I never seem to remember that they have a wire cutter on them, too, but I use the flat part and the round parts all the time.
Happy creating!