A long time ago, I bought some chain tassels from Fire Mountain Gems, thinking that they would be the perfect foundation to create a cascade of
pearls. I mixed the pearls with some glass beads, both round and
faceted, going for a soft beach-glass look. Vary the
colors as you please to create your own cascade of color and
movement!
Materials and Tools
51 glass and pearl beads, 4 mm
39 glass and pearl beads, 6-8 mm
3 round glass pearls, 10 mm
3 coin pearls, 12 mm
24 Bali-style silver daisy spacers
48 head pins
3 chain tassels with 5 strands each (cut off additional strands if the ones you buy have more, or add more dangles to more strands!)
4 jump rings1 cast garland link with 4 loops
1 bail
1 chain and clasp, 28 inches
Chain nose pliers
Wire cutters
Measuring tape
File
1. Divide up your beads among the 48
head pins (16 for each tassel). Strive to make some of your clusters
small, some medium, and a few large. Make sure that the 3 largest
round pearls and the 3 coin pearls end up with one on each tassel.
2. Creating wrapped loops for security,
attach 5 head pins to the longest chain strand of each tassel,
spacing them evenly and graduating them largest to smallest from the
bottom to the top of the chain.
3. Attach 3 or 4 head pins to the 2
medium-length chain strands of each tassel. Attach 2 head pins to
the 2 shortest chain strands of each tassel.
4. Attach a beaded tassel directly to
the 2 outer loops of the garland link. Attach the middle beaded
tassel with a jump ring.
5. Attach the remaining 3 head pins to
jump rings, and attach one jump ring to each loop directly above the
beaded tassels.
6. Slide a bail through the top loop of
the garland link and a chain through the bail.
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Comments
Thanks for sharing !
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