This necklace actually has very little to do with yoga except that I saw a similar design in a yoga catalog. It was actually a bracelet and it wasn’t exactly the same as this necklace, but it sparked the idea. Therefore, I call this my Yoga Necklace.
You’ll need:
18 bugle beads (mine are 1 inch long)
approx. 30 grams of seed beads (Czech or Japanese are fine)
*beading needle & thread
**lots and lots of color coordinating accent beads
scissors
1 8mm bead
*Concerning thread length: I rarely recommend how long a seed beader’s thread should be because this is a personal preference. For me, I don’t work well with anything longer than a hard in a half, or I get it all tangled in knots. This necklace requires 9 strands of beads to be strung, so you will have to add on thread as you work this design up.
**For my accent beads, I dug around and got a little of everything I had that was in the tons of pink since my seed beads were a dark rose. I used all kinds of beads: Czech crystals, pearls, German crystals, Czech size 6 glass, dark burgundy size 11s, clear glass stars, and rose quartz square, heart, and round beads. It depends on what you have and what you like. I stayed in the pink/rose tones, but you could do a multi-colored necklace too.
1. Thread your needle (approx. 1 ½ yards of thread work fine here) and make a ladder using your bugle beads.
4. Skip the last seed bead added, and bring the needle back down through all the beads added in the previous step.
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