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Antique Summer
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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