I don’t usually do bead work – but what can you do when your Mum hands you a string of beads and asks you to make it into a necklace…?
So that’s what I’ve been doing today. I’m not sure what the beads are made from – they’re a bit like moss agate – but they are nice and chunky. I tried using quartz beads between them but found that silver really set them off well. I used Tuff Cord to string them – I was lucky that the green was an almost exact match.
Even so – it didn’t quite go to plan. Having completed stringing the beads I decided to play extra safe and solder all the joins for the clasp and jump rings. I hadn’t counted on that melting the cord. (Duh… obvious!) So the second time around I completed all the soldering before stringing the beads.
Anyway, success!
