Years ago I received a necklace as a gift that I love and, as mentioned yesterday, with the clean silver beads I wanted to try and make a similar one. I have to say it looked easier than it was and after my first try – a second try was in order. About half way through making the necklace I realized some of the strands were going to end up shorter than the others – so I ended up cutting the strings and starting over – learning from my mistake on the first.
Making A Necklace With Beads (Silver)
Items Needed
Beads (with large enough openings for the hemp string)
Clasp
Hemp string/twine
Glue
1. Lay your beads out and decide which ones you want to use – lay out the pattern. You want the beads on each strand to NOT match up with beads on other strands.
2. Cut 4 pieces of hemp twine, a little more than twice the necklace length you want. I want my necklace to be about 24 inches so I cut 4 strands of hemp 60″.
3. Joining the ends of the strands in your hand ( you will have 8 strands for the necklace), take the folded loop and thread through the clasp end. Take the ends and put through the loop – pull tight.
4. For your first strand and all others – take the beads for the strand and string them – place a knot before and after each bead. When starting the second and subsequent strands – line up the beads to make sure the beads are of different positions.
5. When you have finished all 8 strands you need to secure the other end of your necklace to the clasp. This was the hardest part – making sure all strands were of the same length, or close, when securing. You can either do a knot or use a macrame knot.
6. Place a drop of glue on each knot.
7. Put your necklace on, admire and show off your creativity and the one of a kind uniqueness! The hemp twine is stiff at first, but with wear it with get “softer”.

You look great and so does the necklace. You really are good at directions!!
Thank you, thank you and thank you!