Sunday, May 25, 2008

Jean's Jems

We've received lots of requests for the instructions on these beaded bookmarks that were offered at our recent Women's Retreat. So here you go!

Each Bookmark Requires:

  1. 1 Charm
  2. 3 Yellowblue 8 MM round beads
  3. 1 Blue 8MM round beads
  4. 2 Green 3MM round beads
  5. 1 Blue 3MM round beads
  6. 2 Silver 3MM round beads
  7. 2 Daisy Spacers
  8. 1 Silver spacer
  9. 14” Wire [Tiger tail]
  10. 1 Eye pin 2” size
  11. 2 Silver crimp beads

    ASSEMBLY
  1. Put charm on eye pin loop.
  2. Build fob on eye pin – layer as follows
    • Daisy
    • 8 MM Yellowblue
    • Daisy
    • 3 MM Silver
    • 3 MM Green
    • 3 MM Blue
    • 3 MM Green
    • 3 MM Silver
  1. Loop and wrap eye pin
  2. Fob is finished – set aside for the moment
  3. Put crimp on wire
  4. Add silver round spacer
  5. Loop back through crimp
  6. Pull tight leaving 1” “tail” and crimp the crimp bead
  7. Thread on 8 MM Yellowblue [making sure to bury tail]
  8. Thread on 8 MM Blue [making sure to bury tail]
  9. Thread on 8 MM Yellowblue [making sure to bury tail]
  10. Thread seed beads to make 10” [about 160 beads]
  11. Add crimp bead
  12. Thread on fob
  13. Feed back through crimp and seed beads to bury the tail
  14. Tighten and crimp the crimp bead
  15. Trim any leftover tail
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