If you make some pumpkin beads, you can create this fun "Pumpkin Vie Necklace" to show them off.
You’ll need:
4 pumpkin beads
about 10 grams size 11 green seed beads
craft wire (I used 34 gauge.)
beading wire (size .014 works well)
crimp beads or clam shells
wire cutters
round nosed pliers
flat/bent nosed pliers
narrow dowel or jewelers’ files
2. Add a crimp bead or clam shell to one end of the wire.
3. String on about 6 inches of green beads. For stringing seed beads onto beading wire, I find it easiest to place a small pile of beads onto the corner of my bead board. Then I pierce the wire through the beads. Usually, I can get a few on at a time this way.
4. If you used a crimp bead, tuck excess bead wire down through the beads that are next to your crimp bead.
5. Add on a pumpkin bead - stem first.
6. String on 15 green beads.
7. Add on a pumpkin bead - stem first.
8. String on 10 seed beads.
9. Repeat steps 5 - 8, but turn the pumpkin around so it is bottom first.
10. String on 6 inches of green beads.
11. Finish off with a crimp or bead tip. Tuck beading wire into beads if using a crimp.
12. You could finish here, but to add a vine look to your necklace, continue.
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