Khaki olive beads long necklace

How to make a long necklace with large pearls and chain?

It's easy to make your own necklaces. In this tutorial, I suggest using a gold-plated stainless steel chain, already fitted with a clasp. The chain links are assembled with open rings. It's very easy to separate the chain and personalize it with pearl spacers of your own making. To do this, you'll need round-headed nails, beads of your choice, round-tipped pliers to form the loops on the nails, flat-nose pliers to help you straighten the loops, and possibly cutting pliers, preferably memory wire pliers. Stainless steel is very hard, making it difficult to cut with conventional wire cutters. What's more, the steel can damage the blades of the cutter. Memory wire pliers are designed differently to cut very hard wires.

To make my necklace, I used khaki-colored resin olive beads. This type of vintage bead is very trendy and perfect for everyday wear, whether you're going to work or out for a walk. These beads are inspired by the 70s. Take a look at the other seventies jewelry tutorials in our Perles and Pop collection.

Use this tutorial as inspiration to create your own personalized necklaces. Change the colors, the beads, the number of beads or the pendant and show me the result in the feedback section at the bottom of the page. In the variations section of the equipment list, I suggest two other types of beads: 12 mm pearly beads with 25 mm nails, and rectangular Regalite beads.