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by: Rochelle Kilmer
My favourite colour is turquoise and when I saw the Amazonite, I nearly died. This stone is GORGEOUS!!! I knew right away I had to make a piece with it. So I grabbed some tumbled nuggets and the faceted trapezoids and started walking around the store. From there I was attracted to the antique brass rolo chain. The brass brought out the warmer tones in the Amazonite for me. I continued my walk through the store and then came the citrine nuggets and Swarovski crystals. With all my pieces I sat down and this was the design I came up with.
First I measured out 15.5 inches of the
antique brass chain.
I put a 20 mm jumpring on either end and attached the spring clip
clasp to one
of the jumprings. This is my closure. Four inches down either
side of the chain
from the clasp I cut the chain and attached another jumpring.
This is where my
multi-strands will attach. I strung the tumbled nuggets, 5 mm
turquoise
Swarovski bicones, and the 8 mm crystal brandy Swarovski bicones
in a pattern I
liked on the medium bronze beading wire. I used the #3 crimp
tubes to crimp off
my ends by flattening the crimps with my chainnose pliers. This
strand is about
9 inches long.
Then I used the Vintaj headpins for my dangling
citrine and
Swarovski pieces. Constructing from the bottom up, I put the
citrine nugget on,
then a 5mm bicone, an 8mm bicone and then another 5mm bicone. I
made my loop
with the 1-Step looping tool (FANTASTIC in my opinion)!! I made
three of these
and then strung the trapezoids and the 4mm rounds that came on
the strands with
more Swarovski and the dangles. I had to add a couple of the
tumbled nuggets to
the ends to make the strand long enough to reach the jumpring.
This strand came
out to being about 10.5 inches long.
From the remaining rolo chain I cut a piece 9.5 inches long. Now I assembled my piece.
On the jumpring attached to the original piece of chain I put the trapezoid strand first, then the 9.5 inch piece of chain, then the tumbled nugget strand and the last piece of chain. I did the same on the other side so that everything hung appropriately.
Now you can step back and enjoy your GORGEOUS statement piece with Amazonite!!
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