Triple-Strand Bracelet with Quartz Gemstone Beads and Sterling Silver Chain
Instructions by Maura Buckner, Exclusively for Fire Mountain Gems and BeadsĀ®
930C
The Sea is Green
- Bead, sterling silver, 3mm seamless round
- Bead, green quartz, 11x8mm faceted puffed oval
- Bead, lemon quartz, 12x8mm faceted flat oval
- Clasp, sterling silver, toggle, bamboo, 17mm ring/20mm bar
- Jumpring, sterling silver, 6mm round, 22 gauge
- Jumpring, sterling silver, 4.5mm round, 22 gauge
- Chain, sterling silver, 4x3.5mm oval link
- Wire, sterling silver, dead-soft, round, 22 gauge
- Pliers, round-nose
- Pliers, chain-nose
- Pliers, side-cutting
- Ruler
-- Designer --
Leah, Exclusively for Fire Mountain Gems and Beads®
STEP 1
Using the side-cutting pliers, cut two 7-inch lengths of cable chain.
STEP 2
Using the side-cutting pliers, cut a 5-inch length of 22-gauge wire. Create a wrapped loop on one end.
STEP 3
Thread a green faceted oval onto the wire. Approximately 1-1/2 inches down from the long end of the wire, create a wrapped loop. Using the extra wire, wrap the wire in a neat spiral over the green faceted oval. Wrap the wire neatly around the length of wire below the wrapped loop created in Step 2 for one to two wraps. Trim the excess and use the chain-nose pliers to tuck in the cut end.
Cut a total of seven, 5-inch lengths of 22-gauge wire and repeat, to create a total of four green quartz and three lemon quartz fancy wrapped-loop bead links.
STEP 4
Using two pairs of chain-nose pliers, open a 6mm jumpring and pass it through the end of one green beading link, a 3mm silver bead, one lemon beading link, and a 3mm silver bead. Close the jumpring.
Continue the pattern in Step 3 alternating between lemon quartz beading links and green quartz beading links.
STEP 5
Using two pairs of chain-nose pliers, open a 6mm jumpring and pass it through the loop on the toggle-half of the clasp, the loop on one end of the bead-link chain and the last link on each end of the two lengths of chain. Close the jumpring.
STEP 6
Using two pairs of chain-nose pliers, open a 6mm jumpring and pass it through the jumpring on the bar-half of the clasp, the last link on each end of the two lengths of chain and the last loop on the other end of the bead-link chain. Close the jumpring.
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