Retired - Bohemia Necklace

Note: Components and tools listed within this INSTRUCTIONS box and the printer-friendly PDF, if available, may have been discontinued since this project was published. Refer to the PURCHASE COMPONENTS and TOOLS AND OTHER SUPPLIES sections for current availability.

1. Begin by threading a delica and a Czech glass flower onto a headpin. Make a wrapped wire loop on the headpin, just above the flower, and trim off excess wire. Create four more of these flower dangles, for a total of five, and set them aside.
2. Use your flush cutters to cut a piece of beading wire that is approximately two feet in length. Secure one end of the wire with a Bead Stopper.
3. Onto the wire string the following:
4. two inches of alternating 6/0 red seed beads and 10/0 delicas (beginning and ending with a 6/0 red seed bead)
5. a brass oxide heishe spacer
6. a 6mm druk
7. a heishe spacer
8. a turquoise fluted cathedral bead
9. a heishe spacer
10. a druk
11. a heishe spacer
12. one inch of alternating 6/0 red seed beads and 10/0 delicas (beginning and ending with a 6/0 red seed bead)
13. a brass oxide heishe spacer
14. a 6mm druk
15. a heishe spacer
16. a red fluted cathedral bead
17. a heishe spacer
18. a druk
19. a heishe spacer
20. one inch of alternating 6/0 red seed beads and 10/0 delicas (beginning and ending with a 6/0 red seed bead)
21. a brass oxide heishe spacer
22. a 6mm druk
23. a heishe spacer
24. a black fluted cathedral bead
25. a heishe spacer
26. a druk
27. a heishe spacer
28. and one inch of alternating 6/0 red seed beads and 10/0 delicas (beginning and ending with a 6/0 red seed bead).
29. Now string the middle section by threading: a brass heishe spacer, a druk, a heishe spacer, and a flower dangle. Repeat this sequence four more times, and finish by threading another druk, heishe spacer, druk, and one more heishe spacer.
30. When you have completed stringing the middle section, string the second side of the necklace as a mirror image of the first.
31. Onto the end of your strand thread a brass crimp bead, but do not crimp it yet.
32. Thread the end of the strand through the loop on one half of the toggle clasp, back through the crimp bead and several consecutive beads, pull the wire snug, and crimp the crimp bead.
33. Remove the Bead Stopper from the other end of the necklace and repeat the previous step here.
34. Place a crimp bead cover over each of the crimp beads and gently squeeze them closed.
35. Trim off excess beading wire.

• BCS-6409 - Czech Seed Beads 6/0 Translucent Garnet Red (1 Ounce)
  Project uses 70 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• DBM-0380 - Miyuki Delica Seed Beads 10/0 Matte Metallic Green/Pink DBM0380 8 GR
  Project uses 62 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• BMB-5750 - TierraCast Brass Oxide Finish Lead-Free Pewter Disk Heishi Spacer Beads 3mm (50)
  Project uses 32 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• FCL-4700 - Antiqued Brass Flower Toggle Clasps 14mm (4 Sets)
  Project uses 1 piece. You will need 1 package.


• BCP-92144 - Czech Glass Beads Three Petal Flower 12mm Opaque Red/Picasso (12)
  Project uses 5 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• BCP-39200 - Czech Glass Fluted Cathedral Beads 9mm Opaque Turquoise/Picasso (12 Beads)
  Project uses 2 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• BCP-39210 - Czech Glass Fluted Cathedral Beads 9mm Jet Black/Bronze (12 Beads)
  Project uses 2 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• BCP-76209 -
  Project uses 24 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• XCR-5005 - Soft Flex Metallics, 21 Strand Fine Beading Wire .014 Inch Thick, 30 Feet, Antique Brass
  Project uses 2 feet. You will need 1 package.


• FCR-1090 - Antiqued Brass Crimp Bead Covers 3mm (50)
  Project uses 2 pieces. You will need 1 package.


• FHP-6312 - Antiqued Brass Head Pins 2 Inches Long/22 Gauge (X50)
  Project uses 5 pieces. You will need 1 package.

• XTL-5600 - Xuron Sharp Flush Cutter Pliers - Wire/Soft Flex
• XTL-5514 - Beadsmith Jewelry Fine Round Nose Micro Pliers
• XTL-5230 - Double Notch Crimping Pliers - Works on 2mm And 3mm Crimps
• XTL-3000 - Bead Stopper- Stop Beads Sliding Off Stringing Material