Trillium Necklace

This botanical necklace is like a sweet garden for your neck. The hand-dyed rayon cording shades from one end of the rainbow to the other while the seed beads add a bit of sparkle.

Designer Cynthia Deis

Ingredients

- 1 cherry Triple Flower Wheel
- Four 20 inch strands hand-painted rayon gimp
- 2 fold-over end bars
- 1 lobster claw clasp, 8x14mm
- 1 jump ring, 11 mm
- 4 jump rings, 9 mm
- 20 jump rings, 7 mm
- 2 jump rings, 5 mm
- 20 seed beads, 6/0 size

Tools

- Chain nose pliers

1. Fit ends of all four pieces of rayon gimp into a fold-over end. Using your pliers fold the sides inward to secure the end. Repeat on other end of the gimp strands. Using your pliers attach the clasp and 11 mm jump ring to the fold-over ends using the 5 mm jump rings.

2. Feed a 9mm jump ring around all four strands of the gimp and close securely. Tie a knot around the ring to position the ring in the middle of the necklace. Repeat this knotting technique to attach a 9 mm ring on each side of the necklace 1.5 inches from the center knot.

3. Use a 9 mm jump ring to attach the pendant to the middle ring tied onto the necklace. Using a 7 mm jump ring, attach a seed bead to the ring tied onto the necklace. Repeat, attaching 5 jump rings with seed beads onto each side of the pendant. Use the same technique to attach seed beads to the jump rings knotted on each side of the central pendant.

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Trillium Earrings

Lightweight wood links make great earrings and this design goes together in just a few minutes using only two pairs of pliers.

Ingredients

- 2 cherry Triple Flower links
- 1 pair simple ear loops
- 2 round jump rings, 9 mm
- 7 round jump rings, 7 mm
- 2 oval jump rings, 3x4 mm
- 12 seed beads, 6/0 size

Tools

- Chain nose pliers

1. Thread a seed bead onto a 7 mm jump ring. Feed the jump ring through the loop on the top of the wood link and close securely. Using the oval jump ring, attach the ear loop to the 7 mm jump ring so that the bead is on the front side of the earring.

2. Thread a seed bead onto a 7 mm jump ring and close securely. Repeat to create a total of 5 rings with beads. Thread a 9 mm jump ring through all 5 of the 7 mm jump rings and close securely. Feed a 7 mm jump ring through the loop on the bottom of the wood link and through the 9 mm jump ring. Close securely.

Repeat all to create the second earring.

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