It's baseball fever in the Beadalon office!

When sports and jewelry making intersect, everyone in the Beadalon office is on board! We're root, root, rooting for our home team Phillies as they are playing for the National League Division Title against the Atlanta Braves. I couldn't resist running out to our local Hobby Lobby and picking up these fabulous sparkly pave beads to make a quick rally necklace like the major league ball players are wearing these days.

Materials:
Pave beads in your choice of colors - I found mine at Hobby Lobby
Beadalon 49 Strand .024 Bead Stringing Wire
Size 2 Crimp Tubes
Clasp

Tools:
Crimping Pliers
Chain Nose Pliers
Nippers
Bead Board

Instructions:
1. Lay out your design on the Bead Board. Be sure to start and end with smaller beads.
2. Working from the spool, string up your design. 
3. Add a crimp tube and one half of the clasp on one the end. Thread the wire around the clasp, back through the crimp tube and use the crimping pliers to crimp it in place.
4. Snug all of the beads down to the clasp, tuck the extra wire into the beads, leave about three inches of wire on the other side and snip it from the spool.
5. String on a crimp tube and the other half of the clasp. Thread the wire around the clasp, back through the crimp tube, tucking the wire into a few of the beads on the end. Join the two halves of the clasp, and snug up the beads to remove any slack in the design. Use the crimping pliers to crimp the crimp tube. Trim any excess wire.

Click here to download printable instructions!

For more information on stringing and crimping, check out the All About Beading Wire article on our website. To watch the project start to finish with many more tips and tricks, watch to replay of the Facebook Live Video. 

Be sure to set your reminders for 2pm ET on Thursdays to catch our Facebook Live or watch on the replay. Join in on the conversation in the Jewelry Making with Beadalon Facebook Group!

Until next time- happy beading!

Meredith