How Do You Make A Twisted Bead Necklace?
Has the beading bug bitten you? Why not make your next project a fashionable twisted bead necklace. You may want to use an assortment of the beads you have, or head off to the bead store for a new collection of bead shapes and sizes for your necklace. What will it be: A mixture of bugle beads, and triangle beads, seed beads and crystals? One very dramatic combination for a twisted bead necklace is to assemble all shapes and sizes of beads in the same color family. This adds texture and depth to your necklace. Design the pattern for each strand, and decide how many strands you want. For instance, you can do one strand alternating two colors of seed beads, one strand with half triangle beads in red and the next half in purple, and a third strand alternating bugle bead colors. You can also do a strand with 10 or 12 multicolor beads, then one crystal bead, then the multicolor beads, then one crystal, and so forth. Thread the beads you’ve chosen in continuous strands. For each strand, cut a
