Silver Czech Crystals Crochet Necklace
Silver Czech Crystals Crochet Necklace
After jewelry making, crochet is my other passion, and I am always looking for a way to bring some fiber into my jewelry designs as well. With this necklace piece, I have many of my favorites: sparkling Czech crystal beads, fiber, crochet, silver cones, and wire work. Only a few basic crochet stitches are used in this design. First (as with most crochet projects) you make a crochet chain. Then the other stitch used is just single crochet down the length of the chain.
As you move down the chain, you slip a bead up on the thread. Eventually, you will start to see the piece twist and turn, and this will make the crystal beads sparkle even more.
To make the Silver Czech Crystals Crochet Necklace, you will need the following tools and supplies:
3.25mm Crochet hook
Size 10 Cotton metallic/white crochet thread
90 - 4mm Czech crystal silver colored beads
Scissors
Sewing thread
Sewing needle
Small darning needle
6 inches of 22-gauge Sterling silver wire
Wire cutters
Chain-nosed pliers
Round-nosed pliers
Attach Needle and String on Beads
1. Before starting any of the crochet part of this project, you have to get all of the beads you plan to use strung onto the crochet thread first. To do this, take a little sewing thread, attach a regular sewing needle onto it, and secure the end with an overhand knot.
2. Insert one end of the crochet thread through the sewing thread that is now doubled and fold over the crochet thread so that it sort of hooks onto the sewing thread.
3. Now insert the needle through a bead, and push the bead down the sewing thread and onto the crochet thread.
4. Keep adding beads as described in step 3 until you have all of the beads strung onto the crochet thread.
Make Chain Stitch
5. Push all the beads previously strung down the thread so they are well out of your way. You do not need them yet.
6. Using the crochet chain stitch, make enough chains down the crochet thread so that you have about 18 to 20 inches of chain. An exact number of chain stitches is not necessary as long as the length is about right.
Slip on Beads and Single Crochet
7. Make one single crochet stitch into the second chain stitch.
8. Slip one Czech crystal bead down from the end of the crochet thread and push it up against the single crochet stitch you just made.
Continue Single Crochet and Beads
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 - single crochet stitch, slide a bead up against it - until you have made your way down the length of the crochet chain.
10. Repeat steps 7 and 8, but this time, you are going to work down in the opposite direction and make your single crochet stitches in the previous row of single crochet made in step 9. At this point, you have made a row of chain and two rows of single crochet.
Finish Off Thread Tails
11. Trim off the crochet thread leaving about a 6 inch tail, insert the tail through the loop that once held the crochet hook, and pull to tighten it.
12. Attach a small darning needle to the crochet thread tail, and insert it through the end of the crochet piece a few times, weaving through a few stitches.
13. Cut off the rest of the tail.
14. Repeat steps 12 and 13 for the other end of the crochet piece.
Start Wire Clasp
15. Cut off about 3 inches of wire, and about 3/4 inches down from one end of the wire, grasp the wire using round-nose pliers.
16. Use your fingers to bend the wire over the nose of the pliers.
Attach Wire to Crochet
17. You have a rough sort of hook on the end of the wire now, so insert this part of the wire into one end of the crochet piece.
18. Secure the wire to the end of the crochet piece by wrapping the wire around itself. (See wrapped loop which demonstrates a wire wrapping technique.)
Add Silver Cones
19. Insert the wire through a sterling silver cone. I did not use glue, but if you want you can dab a little clear drying glue or hypo-cement onto the end of it before adding the cone.
Make Wire Hook
20. Using the wrapped loop technique, finish the end of the wire with a loop. This is now one side of your clasp completed.
Finished Silver Czech Crystals Crochet Necklace
21. Repeat steps 15 through 18 to secure another 3 inch piece of wire to the other end of the crocheted piece.
22. Instead of a loop, now you need to make a wire hook on this opposite end of the necklace. Use chain-nose pliers and about 1/4 inch past the top of the cone, bend the wire about 45 degrees.
23. About a half inch from the bent part of the wire, grasp the wire with round-nose pliers, and then use your fingers to wrap the wire around the nose of the pliers.
24. Use the smallest end of the round-nose pliers and curl the end of the hook just made up. (See the wrapped hook clasp tutorial for a similar technique.)
To attach the necklace, simply slip the hook from one side of the necklace into the loop made on the other side of the necklace. This is a light-weight necklace that is very comfortable to wear, and since it has neutral colors of silver and white, it goes with just about everything in my closet. To make a chunkier design, you could add more beads and make more single crochet rows moving up and down the piece until you have the thickness you desire.
For more unique yarn and crochet jewelry tutorials and techniques, see this list of projects and articles.
If you like using cone findings with fiber jewelry, then see this list of bead cap and cone jewelry projects.
After jewelry making, crochet is my other passion, and I am always looking for a way to bring some fiber into my jewelry designs as well. With this necklace piece, I have many of my favorites: sparkling Czech crystal beads, fiber, crochet, silver cones, and wire work. Only a few basic crochet stitches are used in this design. First (as with most crochet projects) you make a crochet chain. Then the other stitch used is just single crochet down the length of the chain.
As you move down the chain, you slip a bead up on the thread. Eventually, you will start to see the piece twist and turn, and this will make the crystal beads sparkle even more.
To make the Silver Czech Crystals Crochet Necklace, you will need the following tools and supplies:
3.25mm Crochet hook
Size 10 Cotton metallic/white crochet thread
90 - 4mm Czech crystal silver colored beads
Scissors
Sewing thread
Sewing needle
Small darning needle
6 inches of 22-gauge Sterling silver wire
Wire cutters
Chain-nosed pliers
Round-nosed pliers
Attach Needle and String on Beads
1. Before starting any of the crochet part of this project, you have to get all of the beads you plan to use strung onto the crochet thread first. To do this, take a little sewing thread, attach a regular sewing needle onto it, and secure the end with an overhand knot.
2. Insert one end of the crochet thread through the sewing thread that is now doubled and fold over the crochet thread so that it sort of hooks onto the sewing thread.
3. Now insert the needle through a bead, and push the bead down the sewing thread and onto the crochet thread.
4. Keep adding beads as described in step 3 until you have all of the beads strung onto the crochet thread.
Make Chain Stitch
5. Push all the beads previously strung down the thread so they are well out of your way. You do not need them yet.
6. Using the crochet chain stitch, make enough chains down the crochet thread so that you have about 18 to 20 inches of chain. An exact number of chain stitches is not necessary as long as the length is about right.
Slip on Beads and Single Crochet
7. Make one single crochet stitch into the second chain stitch.
8. Slip one Czech crystal bead down from the end of the crochet thread and push it up against the single crochet stitch you just made.
Continue Single Crochet and Beads
9. Repeat steps 7 and 8 - single crochet stitch, slide a bead up against it - until you have made your way down the length of the crochet chain.
10. Repeat steps 7 and 8, but this time, you are going to work down in the opposite direction and make your single crochet stitches in the previous row of single crochet made in step 9. At this point, you have made a row of chain and two rows of single crochet.
Finish Off Thread Tails
11. Trim off the crochet thread leaving about a 6 inch tail, insert the tail through the loop that once held the crochet hook, and pull to tighten it.
12. Attach a small darning needle to the crochet thread tail, and insert it through the end of the crochet piece a few times, weaving through a few stitches.
13. Cut off the rest of the tail.
14. Repeat steps 12 and 13 for the other end of the crochet piece.
Start Wire Clasp
15. Cut off about 3 inches of wire, and about 3/4 inches down from one end of the wire, grasp the wire using round-nose pliers.
16. Use your fingers to bend the wire over the nose of the pliers.
Attach Wire to Crochet
17. You have a rough sort of hook on the end of the wire now, so insert this part of the wire into one end of the crochet piece.
18. Secure the wire to the end of the crochet piece by wrapping the wire around itself. (See wrapped loop which demonstrates a wire wrapping technique.)
Add Silver Cones
19. Insert the wire through a sterling silver cone. I did not use glue, but if you want you can dab a little clear drying glue or hypo-cement onto the end of it before adding the cone.
Make Wire Hook
20. Using the wrapped loop technique, finish the end of the wire with a loop. This is now one side of your clasp completed.
Finished Silver Czech Crystals Crochet Necklace
21. Repeat steps 15 through 18 to secure another 3 inch piece of wire to the other end of the crocheted piece.
22. Instead of a loop, now you need to make a wire hook on this opposite end of the necklace. Use chain-nose pliers and about 1/4 inch past the top of the cone, bend the wire about 45 degrees.
23. About a half inch from the bent part of the wire, grasp the wire with round-nose pliers, and then use your fingers to wrap the wire around the nose of the pliers.
24. Use the smallest end of the round-nose pliers and curl the end of the hook just made up. (See the wrapped hook clasp tutorial for a similar technique.)
To attach the necklace, simply slip the hook from one side of the necklace into the loop made on the other side of the necklace. This is a light-weight necklace that is very comfortable to wear, and since it has neutral colors of silver and white, it goes with just about everything in my closet. To make a chunkier design, you could add more beads and make more single crochet rows moving up and down the piece until you have the thickness you desire.
For more unique yarn and crochet jewelry tutorials and techniques, see this list of projects and articles.
If you like using cone findings with fiber jewelry, then see this list of bead cap and cone jewelry projects.
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