Aurora Borealis Necklace:
This is a crocheted wire piece.
Materials (for an 18 - 20 inch necklace):
4 - 4 mm light green square beads
5 - 4 mm clear bicone beads
5 - 4 mm light blue bicone beads
5 - 4 mm smokey blue bicone beads
9 - 6 mm clear round faceted beads
4 - 6 mm light green beads
4 - 6 mm clear bicone beads
4 - 6 mm light blue bicone beads
4 - 6 mm smokey blue bicone beads
2 - clear seed beads
60 inches 28 gauge silver wire
2 crimp covers with hooks
2 inches sliver chain
lobster claw clasp
1 sliver head pin
I size crochet hook
Wire cutters
Crimpers
Round needle nose pliers
String all beads onto wine in this order (I find it's easiest to do this while the wire is still on the spool and then cut it when I'm done crocheting):
Round clear
smokey bicone
small bicone clear
small square light green
large light blue bicone
Round clear
large clear bicone
small smokey blue bicone
small light blue bicone
large light green bicone
Repeat 4 times. Add one additional clear round bead at the end. You should be left with 3 small bicone beads: one each of light blue, smokey blue, and clear.
Leaving a 6 inch tail, begin a loose bead chain stitch, pulling up one large bead or 2 small beads for each stitch. You can find a few tutorials on crocheting with beads on youtube but the basic idea is to slide a bead up next to you hook, then chain as you normally would, trapping the bead in the stitch.
Once all the beads have been crocheted, cut the wire, leaving another 6 inch tail.
At the beginning end of the wire, thread your wire through one crimp cover and one seed bead. Thread the wire around and back through the seed bead and pull tight. Slide the crimp cover over the bead and close. Clip the any unused wire. Repeat at the other end.
Attach the lobster claw clasp to the hook of one crimp cover and the length of chain to the other.
Thread the 3 remaining bicone beads onto the head pin and fasten to the free end of the length of chain. Your necklace is now complete!
