Materials…
- Silver choker
- Silver decorative toggle clasp
- Silver headpin
- 4mm and 6mm round cat’s eye beads
- Silver 2mm round beads
- 0.5mm silver wire
- Round-nose and chain-nose pliers and side cutters
To create…
1 Bend a length of silver wire in half around the tip of your round-nose pliers. Insert the two wire ends through the centre of the toggle, front to back, then bring them around the toggle and feed them through the folded loop before pulling tight.
2 With the wire ends together, thread on one silver bead, then cut one wire end off flush with the top of the bead. Thread a second silver bead, a small cat’s eye bead and a final silver bead onto the remaining wire end, then create a wrapped loop large enough to slide onto your choker.
3 Thread a silver bead, a 4mm cat’s eye bead, a silver bead, a 6mm cat’s eye bead and a final two silver beads onto a headpin.
4 Create a simple loop in the headpin and hang from the fixing loop on the back of the toggle clasp before attaching the completed pendant to your choker.
Project by Judith Hannington. Originally published in Creative Beads & Jewellery issue 1.