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• Katiedids™ - Mixed Metal Jewerly Set•
• Materials •

•Necklace – choker
•Stainless steel choker-size Beadalon memory wire
•Bright .018" diameter Beadalon 7
•20-gauge hematite Artistic Wire
•3 Katiedids 5-hole rounds from Beadalon
•5 silver medium ball Beadalon head pins
•22" strand of 3mm multi-color metallic beads
•7 smoky 8mm AB faceted rounds
•4 copper 8mm coins
•6 clear 6/0 seed beads

•Earrings – 2" long
•20-gauge hematite Artistic Wire
•2 Katiedids 35mm rectangles from Beadalon
•2 silver medium ball Beadalon head pins
•2 silver leverback ear wires
•3mm multi-color metallic beads: 4 silver, 4 gold, 2 copper,
•4 clear 6/0 seed beads

•Tools
•Round-nose pliers #201A-104
•Chain-nose pliers #201A-101
•Wire cutters #202A-105
•Nylon jaw pliers
•Beadalon bead stringing glue
•Coiling Gizmo with small mandrel (or substitute a bamboo skewer)

Designed by Katie Hacker



 
• Instructions •

Necklace

1. Use a coiling tool or a bamboo skewer to make a 1" hematite coil; cut it in half.

2. Cut 1 ½ continuous loops of memory wire.

3. Pass a head pin through a smoky bead and the holes on one side of the Katiedids circle component; make a wrapped loop.

4. Cut a 5" piece of beading wire and pass it under the head pin in the circle component. String beads onto the wire to fit inside the channel, crossing the wire ends inside a bead or two to complete the circle. Tack the beads down with a few drops of bead stringing glue.

5. Cut a 6" piece of hematite wire and wrap it around the edge of a circle component. Flatten it against the component using nylon jaw pliers. Repeat Steps 3-5 to for a total of three circle components.

6. Use round nose pliers to make a loop on one end of the memory wire.

7. String 44 mixed metallic beads and a hematite coil.

8. String a clear seed bead, circle pendant, clear seed bead.

9. String copper coin, silver, smoky, silver, copper coin.

10. Repeat Steps 8-9 as shown to create the center focal section.

11. String a hematite coil, 44 mixed metallic beads and make a loop on the wire end.

12. String a smoky bead onto a head pin and make a wrapped loop to attach it to one end of the necklace; repeat for the other end.

Earrings

1. Pass a head pin through one hole on the rectangle component, then pass through: silver, 2 gold, silver, clear, copper, clear, gold, 2 silver, gold and out the other end of the rectangle.

2. Make a basic loop to attach the dangle to an earring.

3. Make a ½" hematite coil; cut it in half.

4. String a coil onto each earring as shown. Use chain nose pliers to tighten the upper ring on the coil to hold it in place.

 

 

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