Necklace Making for Beginners in Jewelry Making

Today, more and more take part in jewelry making, no matter for business or just as hobby. There are tens of thousands of jewelry materials available on the market. What kinds of materials are suitable for beginners? If you want to start with making necklaces, necklace making is a good choice.

 

Steel Wire Necklace Cord

What is necklace making? Some people may ask, especially the beginners of jewelry making. In fact, necklaces making including all kinds of necklace cords, necklace loops, necklace ribbons, necklace chains and many others. They belong to stringing materials. Why they are suitable for beginners of jewelry making? Because all of them are cut off with different suitable lengths and added clasps on them already. What you need to do is just putting the jewelry beads, findings and pendants what you like on them. But simple necklace making can also help you to create fabulous jewelry designs, which is depending on your creation.

 

Silk Necklace Cord

For the beginners, the simplest necklace is string jewelry beads on necklace making. First, choose a necklace cord or ribbon (any material you like) with suitable length you need or like. Second, choose jewelry beads. You can choose different materials, colors, shapes and sizes. But please make sure that all the beads can put through the cord or ribbon. That is to say, pay more attention to their holes when you choose different beads. Third, lay all the beads out on table first according to your design. Fourth, string the beads onto the necklace cord or ribbon as your design. Fifth, attach the clasp. Your first stringing necklace is finished.

necklace making

Beginners also can use simple necklace making to create complicated necklace. For example, choose a special metal hanger, and attach some beaded pendants on its loops. If the length of necklace making is not long enough as you need, you can use some beads and eyepins or chains to make a beaded link, and add it onto the necklace making. What is more, you can also add a toggle clasp on the cord as a link. What says the toggle clasp only can be used at the end of cords to stop the beads fall of. You can use it in any different ways as you like.

beaded necklace making

From the above jewelry inspirations, it is not hard to see that necklace making is not only suitable for beginners, but also can be used to create stunning jewelry designs.

Necklace Making Ideas for Mother’s Day

Today, most people are no stranger to jewelry making. Some people choose it as vocation, and some people take it as hobby. No matter what you regard it as, Mother’s Day is coming. Have you prepared the jewelry gift for her? I have two ideas about necklace making for Mother’s Day.

 

Fashion Pearl Necklaces

Pearls are always one of women’s favorites, and widely used in jewelry making. So, a necklace making with pearls is a good choice of jewelry gift for Mother’s Day. I used pearl beads in two different sizes. The necklace is about 430mm long so that I cut off a length of white sewing thread about 900mm. Step 1, string the sewing thread through a jump ring, and double over sewing thread. Step 2, string a large pearl bead on two strands of thread together. Then, string two pieces smaller pearls on one strand, and two pieces on the other strand. String a larger pearl bead on two strands of thread together again. Step 3, repeat step 2 for more times, till the length is long enough. Step 4, string the two strands of sewing threads into the ring of lobster claw clasp, and make a knot to stop the beads fall off. Till now, an easy making but elegant handmade pearl necklace making is finished. There is no woman won’t like pearls and pearl jewelry. So, a pearl necklace is a good gift for your mother on her holiday.

 

Fashion Gemstone Necklaces

The other jewelry making idea for Mother’s Day is a gemstone necklace. I used 3pcs yellow striped agate beads (about 20x37~40x5-7mm), glass beads (8~12x6~8mm) and some brass findings (3~9x2~6mm) for this necklace making. Step 1, cut off a length of jewelry wire about 22 inches. String a crimp bead and jump ring from on one end of jewelry wire, and use crimp jewelry plier press crimp bead to make a loop to hold the jump ring. Step 2, string half of the small glass beads and some tiny brass spacer beads one by one on jewelry wire. Then, string 5pcs larger glass beads with a bead cap and spacer bead at each end. Step 3, string tiny flower bead caps, 3pcs striped agate beads, 2pcs larger glass beads on with layout like picture. Step 4, string the rest glass beads and findings like step 2. Step 5, the last step is string a crimp bead and lobster claw clasp on the jewelry wire to make an end. Now, a fashion and elegant gemstone necklace making is completed.

Jewelry making (necklace making, bracelet making, earring making etc) is not hard or difficult as some people think. Just start to make jewelry if you like jewelry making, and create your first necklace making as a gift to your mom on Mother’s Day. It would be the best jewelry gift she received. 

Tutorial about Necklace Making for Beginners

As a common hobby, jewelry making is loved by more and more people. They learn how to make jewelry from real classes or internet. Simple necklace making is very suitable for beginners to learn. Here are two ideas for sharing.

Porcelain Necklaces

We all know that stringing jewelry is the simplest design, so let’s to create a necklace making from this simplest way. The first example is porcelain necklace. Materials you need to prepare are cornflower-blue donut pendant (about 45mm in diameter), flat round brown and cornflower-blue porcelain beads (about 6mm), 4pce white columniform porcelain beads (about 8mm), 2pcs 10mm round cornflower-blue porcelain beads and a length of brown cotton cord. The steps are very simple. First, fold the cord in two and through them into the pendant, and make a knot to hang the pendant. Second, string some brown beads on both cords with the same quantity. And then string a white columniform-blue bead, a 10mm round cornflower-blue bead and a white columniform bead again. Third, string some brown beads again and leave four pieces for the rest design. Fourth, string all the rest columniform-blue beads, 4pcs white beads and 4pcs brown beads in any order you like. The last step is to make a knot with the two cotton cords. A handmade beautiful necklace is finished. It is very suitable for daily wear, isn’t it?

Fashion Tibetan Style Necklaces

The second tutorial of necklace making is a fashion Tibetan style necklace with baking painted glass beads. Here are the list of materials: black cowhide leather cord, alloy lobster claw clasp, extended chain, Tibetan style pendants (about 29mm wide, 38mm long), 6pcs coral baking painted glass beads (about 6mm in diameter), Tibetan style hanger, 3pcs jump rings and 6pcs headpins. First, let’s us make all the glass beads as bead pendants with headpins with your jewelry pliers, and attach them on the Tibetan style pendant. Second, use a jump ring to attach the pendant on the Tibetan style danger. Third, string the danger on the black cord. Fourth, attach both lobster clasp and extended chain on each end of cord by jump rings. A lovely fashion Tibetan style necklace is finished. It is very simple, even for beginners.

There are also many other skills and jewelry tools for fabulous necklace making, but the basic skill is necessary and need more practices. Do you have some other superb ideas about necklace making? If yes, it is time to purchase the materials you need to start now. Please keep in mind to find a large, reliable jewelry beads wholesaler to purchase in order to get much low prices and avoid problems after you received your order.