Double-Pin Chain Brooch with Crystal Passions® Crystals Beads and Drops
Design Idea RM2B
-- Designer --
Elaine, Jewelry Designer, Exclusively for Fire Mountain Gems and Beads®
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- Bead, black diamond, Crystal Passions® 6mm round 5000 featuring Swarovski® Crystals
- Bead, black diamond, Crystal Passions® 6mm bicone 5328 featuring Swarovski® Crystals
- Bead, Siam, Crystal Passions® 6mm bicone 5328 featuring Swarovski® Crystals
- Bead, Siam, Preciosa Czech crystal 6mm round
- Brooch, cubic zirconia and antique silver-plated bronze, garnet red, 28x11mm with 4mm faceted round and closed loop
- Drop, Siam, Crystal Passions® 15x7.5mm pendant teardrop 6000 featuring Swarovski® Crystals
- Kilt pin, silver-plated, 3 inch / 3 loops, steel
- Eye pin, gunmetal-plated, 1 inch, 21 gauge brass
- Head pin, gunmetal-plated, 1 inch, 21 gauge brass
- Chain, gunmetal-plated figaro, 2.5mm, brass 5 foot unfinished
- Jump ring, gunmetal-plated, 6mm round, 20 gauge / 4.4mm inside diameter / brass
Instructions
Strand One Instructions
String a Crystal Passions® featuring Swarovski® Crystals 6mm black diamond round bead onto a 1-inch 21-gauge gunmetal-plated eye pin. Finish the eye pin with a simple loop.
Repeat to create a total of sixteen black diamond links.
String a Crystal Passions featuring Swarovski Crystals 6mm Siam bicone bead onto a 1-inch 21-gauge gunmetal-plated eye pin. Finish the eye pin with a simple loop.
Repeat to create a total of three Siam links.
Attach the links so they make a chain, using a pattern of four black diamond links followed by one Siam link, starting and finishing the chain with four black diamond links.
Stand Two Instructions
Cut a 10-inch length of gunmetal-plated 2.5mm figaro chain.
Strand Three Instructions
String a Crystal Passions featuring Swarovski Crystals 6mm Siam round bead onto a 1-inch 21-gauge gunmetal-plated eye pin. Finish the eye pin with a simple loop.
Repeat to create a total of 24 Siam links.
String a Crystal Passions featuring Swarovski Crystals 6mm black diamond bicone bead onto a 1-inch 21-gauge gunmetal-plated eye pin. Finish the eye pin with a simple loop.
Repeat to create a total of five black diamond links.
Attach the links so they make a chain, using a pattern of four Siam links followed by one black diamond link, starting and ending with four Siam links.
Pin Instructions
String a Crystal Passions® featuring Swarovski® Crystals 6mm black diamond round bead onto a 1-inch 21-gauge gunmetal-plated head pin. Finish the head pin with a simple loop.
Repeat to create a total of eight black diamond drops.
Attach a 6mm 20-gauge gunmetal-plated round jump ring to a Crystal Passions featuring Swarovski Crystals 15x7.5mm Siam pendant teardrop. Repeat or a total of four Siam drops.
Attach the three chain strands to the loops on a 3-inch 3-loop silver-plated kilt pin.
Attach the drops created in Steps 1 and 2 to the kilt pin, using a pattern of one black diamond drop, one Siam drop, one black diamond drop between and on either side of the loops on the kilt pin.
Using a 6mm 20-gauge gunmetal-plated round jump ring, attach the other ends of the three long strands to the loop on a 28x11mm garnet red cubic zirconia and antiqued silver-plated brooch.
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