NETTING / BEAD WEAVING
Delicate diamonds
Choker
Stitch a strip of lace-like netting, and accent the diamond shapes
with an overlay of bicone crystals.
designed by Nicole Vogt© wseetset
@ 15°seed bead
The materials list is for a 144in, (86 cm)
choker. For a longer choker, or for a
ccollarstyle necklace, pian for extta seed
beads and bicone crysials. This pioco
Clso works up beautiful as a bracelet,
Base
1.0n a comfortable length of thread
ctach a stop bead, leaving a 10%
(25 cm) fil Pck up 13 11" seed beads
cand a 15* seed bead, and sew back
through the last 11° (figure 1).
2 Pick up five 17%, skip the next five
114s, and sew through the following 11*
(igure 2, -b). Repeat this stitch once
(b-e). Pick up a 15%, sew back through
the previous 11%, and continue through
the next throe 11's (@-d). Remove tho
sop bead, and make sure the 15%
propetly positioned. This completes a
vetlcal poi of diamonds with a shared
11" between them.
3 Add side ciamonds: Pick up five 11°,
skp the nex fe 11°s, and sew through
the beadwork as shown (figure 3, ab)
Pick up five 11%, skip the next five 1,
cand sew through the folowing 11" (be).
4 Pick up three 11°s and a 18%, and
sew back through the last 11° (figure 4,
{o-b). Pickup five 114s, skip the next five
11s, and sew through the following four
11's (bee,
Difficulty rating
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Materials
choker 14 in. (86 em)
104 4 mm bicone crystals (Swarorst,
crystal purple haze)
+ 13 g 11° seed beads (oho PFS5S,
permanent fnish gaWvanized aluminum)
+ 2.9 15° seed beads (Toho PF558,
etmanent finish galvanized aluminum)
+ 1 2sirand slide closp(siver)
+ 46 mm jump rings (svet)
+ Ftlino, 6b. test
* beading needles, #12
+ 2 pais of chainnose loose, and/or
beninose pliers
Online beading basics
www.BeadAndButton.com/basics
* attaching a stop bead
+ ending and adding tread
* opening and cling jump rings
Nicole Vogt ves in Germany
and works os 0 mathematic
fochniel assistant in the
Business heligence (8)
‘sector. She began beading
‘n.2008 witha simple strung necklace. She
‘soon infected her two sisters with the hobby,
and in 2013 they started their blog, “Drei
Hoine Prien” ("Thee ite Beads") at
_www.deikleineperlen blogspot. de, Contact
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5 Pick up three 11% and « 188, and
sev back through the last 11° (figure 6,
{@-b). Pick up five 1185. skip the next five
11°5,and sew through the beacwork os
shown to complet this pair of vertical