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Crystal Butterfly Bead and Wire Necklace

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Back of Butterfly Pendant

If you look on the back of the butterfly pendant, you’ll see that it has three bales – one in the center and two on either side of the wings. This is great because it gives you a number of design options. For this necklace, I decided to use the bales on the wings.

Materials and Equipment:
Sterling butterfly pendant (BBB-10391)
34 – 4mm fire-polished red crystal beads
5 feet of 22-gauge soft sterling round wire
2 – 6mm sterling jump rings
3 to 4 inches of 20-gauge half-hard round sterling wire
Wire cutters
Jeweler’s file
Flat or bent-nosed pliers
Round-nosed pliers
*Nylon-nosed pliers

*I find nylon-nose or nylon-jaw pliers really helpful when I'm working on a project like this that uses a lot of wire, but they aren't 100% necessary to complete the project.

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