How To Make An Endless Beaded Necklace: Easy Jewelry Tutorial

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How To Make An Endless Beaded Necklace
by Jennifer and Kitty O'Neil
The O'Neil Sisters
Running With Sisters

Transcript (abridged)
"To make this beaded necklace we're going to use FireLine. FireLine is kind of a thread made specifically for bead stringing. It's extra strong. We've got beads. We have a Bead Bug. We have a beading needle. This is size twelve beading needle. We're going to secure our knots when we're done with G-S Hypo. This necklace has no clasp. This is going to be an endless necklace.

To make this endless necklace, we're going to cut a 40" piece of FireLine. A 40" piece of FireLine would give us about a 30" necklace when we're done. That way we can have it big enough that it's a necklace that you can slip over your head to put it on. You don't need a clasp.

I'm going to start by putting the needle on one end of the FireLine. I only need to feed a couple of inches through there. We're not going to double the whole thread. I'm gonna put my Bead Bug on the other end. This is a springy little device that clamps onto your FireLine when you're beading and it keeps the beads from sliding off the end.

For the design of this necklace, we just raided our bead stash and pulled out all kinds of beads different sizes and colors. We're just gonna do a random necklace. It's endless. You can wear any side of it in the front. So it doesn't matter where you start. We're just gonna feed the beads on one at a time. So I'm just going to keep feeding on beads until I have 30 inches of beads on my FireLine.

I have 30 inches of the FireLine beaded. And now we want to finish the ends. We're going to tie knots in the FireLine. I'm going to take the Bead Bug off of the other end. I'm going to feed my needle in through the last bead. This is how we're joining our necklace ends up together and now I can take off this needle.

I've got two ends of FireLine here going through this bead. What we want to do is tie a knot on either side of this bead. The kind of knot we're going to do is called a half hitch. It's kind of like you make a number four across the necklace thread. Then go around the back and up through the four shape on the front. I'm going to pull that tight. I'm going to do two of those. That's called a double half hitch. That's that loop I made on the front. I went around the back of the necklace thread and then I'm going to put those two knots together. And then what I want to do is put a little bit of glue on that knot. This is G-S Hypo jeweler's glue with a precision tip. I'm going to squeeze a little dot of glue out there. I'm just going to put a little glue on the knot.

I'm gonna do the same kind of knot on this side. I'm just gonna put a little glue on my knot. Instead of cutting the strings here, take this end and just run it through a couple beads. That way when you cut the end, as it shortens up, it'll stay inside that bead. This is the other end. I would do the same thing on this side. I'm just gonna run it through one more bead. Now I can cut these ends. And now it's an endless necklace, because you can wear it with any side facing forward. You can put it on with no clasp. And that is how you make a long beaded endless necklace."

You can make this necklace with any beads. And you can make it longer or shorter as long as it fits over you head since there's no clasp. Let us know how you like it! Leave us a comment.
Happy Crafting,
Jennifer & Kitty

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