Full Bloom Necklace & Earrings

Use basic sewing techniques to make colourful, ribbon flowers and attach them to antique gold chain. Adorn with sumptuous glass pearls for a Summery creation. 

 

 

 

 

Buy all the materials for this project for £16.14:

Buy all the materials including the tools for £21.09:

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Materials

• 1 x light chain antique gold (CHLAG)
• 1 x trace chain antique gold (CHTRAG)
• 1 x 25 5mm jump rings antique gold (JR5AG)
• 1 x 12 headpins antique gold (HPAG)
• 1 x 6 long ballwires antique gold (LBWAG)
• 2 x 12 eyepins antique gold (EPAG)
• 1 x trigger clasp large (TRG15AG)
• 1 x ribbon hot pink (RNOG1212)
• 1 x glass pearls mixed (GLXHPMX)
• 4 x 5mm lustred round glass beads emerald (GLTL0516)
• 4 x 10x5mm filigree bead gold plated (MPEC32)
• 1 x reel Super lon D rose (SLD12)
• 1 x needles (NDA)
• 1 x project sheet (GMC1007P)
• You will also need 1 pair of craft multi pliers (CRMT)

Stage 1

Cut 60cm of both light and trace chain. Open a 5mm jump ring and loop on one end of the trace chain, the light chain and your trigger clasp. Close the jump ring. Join the opposite ends of the two chains together with another jump ring. Then, using jump rings, connect the chains together along the lengths every 7 or 8cm.

Stage 2

Cut 15cm of ribbon. Prepare your needle with about 50cm of thread. Knot 10cm from the end. Sew close to the edge on one side of the ribbon for six or seven straight stitches. Fold the ribbon over and continue stitching on the opposite side of the ribbon for another six stitches. Continue all the way along in this way.

Stage 3

Gather the ribbon by pulling the thread tight. Tie the two ends of the thread together, making a rosette. With your needle, pick up a green glass bead. Sew in place on your rosette by catching the ribbon and then passing your needle through the bead. Repeat until secure. Knot the two ends together. Sew the rosette onto a link on the assembled chain. Make 3 more rosettes and attach to the chain.

Stage 4

Add a glass pearl, a filigree bead and another glass pearl to an eyepin. Trim a good centimetre above the last bead added. Curl into a loop with round nosed pliers. Repeat with three more eyepins.

Using three pearls, instead of a filigree bead, make several more beaded eyepins.

Adding between one and three pearls, make beaded headpins in the same way. Make 6 single bead headpins, two of each bead so that you have two matching sets and put aside for the earrings.

Stage 5

Attach all your beaded eyepins along the chain by opening the looped ends slightly with round nosed pliers, joining to a chain link and closing.

Add the beaded headpins in the same way. Your full bloom necklace is now complete!

Stage 6

Cut 3cm of light and 7cm of trace chain. Open a 5mm jump ring and attach the end of the light chain. Attach the trace chain from a link about 2cm along. Attach the jump ring to a long ballwire and close to secure. Add your beaded headpins that were set aside earlier to each of the three ends of chain. Repeat to make a pair.

Stage 7

This is what your finished set should look like.

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