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• Fiesta Necklace • • Materials & Tools • • 4 turquoise 10x14mm flat oval beads • 4 turquoise 6mm round beads • 3 aqua 8mm Czech glass beads • 3 turquoise 12mm nugget beads • 3 red/aqua 9mm daisy millefiori beads • 2 aqua 12mm millefiori beads • 2 turquoise 16mm tubes • 7 coral branches 60” length of Beadalon • 7 crinkle wire 34” length of red faux suede lace • 10 silver bullet scrimp findings & miniature screwdriver • 10 silver wire guardians • 2 silver fold-over cord ends • 56 silver #1 crimp beads • 62 silver crimp covers • 2 silver head pins • 20-gauge silver ColourCraft wire (JD20-NATUR/12) • Jump ring maker with 16mm mandrel (228A-051) • Wire twister (228A-100) • Wire cutters (202E-002) • Chain nose pliers (201E-002) • Round nose pliers (201E-003) • Mighty crimping tool Designed By Katie Hacker Click Here to Enlarge   Click here to download the Printable version of this design. (PDF Version)   • Instructions • 1. Cut three 6” lengths of 20-gauge wire. 2. Attach the piece of wire to the Wire Twister and follow the packaging instructions to twist them together. 3. Follow the Jump Ring Maker packaging instructions to make two 16mm jump rings using the twisted wire from Step 2. 4. Cut five equal lengths of crinkle wire. 5. Use a scrimp finding and a wire guardian to attach each wire to one twisted jump ring. 6. Attach a crimp cover to the jump ring to cover the place where to the wire ends meet, making it a solid ring. 7. Attach another crimp cover to the twisted ring to hold the wire guardians in place as shown. 8. Use crimp beads to attach beads evenly spaced across the wires. 9. Cover each crimp bead with a crimp cover. 10. Use a scrimp finding and a wire guardian to attach each wire end to the other twisted jump ring. 11. Attach a crimp cover to the jump ring to cover the place where to the wire ends meet, making it a solid ring. 12. Cut the suede lace in half. Hold the fold against a twisted ring and place the cord ends through the fold to form a lark’s head knot; repeat for the other piece of suede and twisted ring. 13. Attach a fold-over cord end to each end of the necklace. 14. String a turquoise bead and a crimp cover onto a head pin and make a wrapped loop to attach it to one fold-over cord end; repeat for the other end of the necklace.