Miyuki cherry beads and seed beads necklace

Cut 70 cm of wire. Thread a crush tube, a closed gold-plated stainless steel ring, and then thread the wire end back through the crush tube. As the tube is very thin, we're only going to flatten it, but if you ever use a larger crushable bead, it's best to use crushable bead pliers, which will fold your bead in half. Check that the wire no longer slips once the bead has been flattened. Next, you can hide the pearl with a crushable pearl cover. This is an open bead into which you insert the flattened crush bead, then close it again.

Start by stringing the white beads that make up the base of our necklace. Don't cut the small piece of thread left over from the beginning. Thread it through the beads as well. String about 7 cm of beads.

To make the first flower, string six beads in the color of your flower. Then thread through the first bead. Place the flower against the white beads, but not too tightly, otherwise the beads will curl up. Next, we'll make the heart of the flower. To do this, thread in a gold bead. Place the bead as if in the center of the flower, and thread through a bead opposite the bead from which the thread exits.

String 10 white beads. Next, string two green beads, two red beads, and iron the thread through the two green beads. You've made your first cherry.

Thread 10 white beads again and make a new flower. Repeat the previous steps, alternating flowers and cherries. The pattern consists of 5 pairs of cherries and 6 flowers in all. With the materials in this tutorial, you can make up to 7 pairs of cherries and many more flowers. Remember to lengthen the thread at the start if you're making more than the pattern.

Thread 7 cm of white pearls at the end of the necklace. To make the other part of the clasp, thread your crush tube. Pass the thread through the closed ring and back through the crush tube. Flatten the crush tube and check that the thread no longer slips. Pass the thread through a few beads, then recut it. Then add the bead cover.

Attach the carabiner clasp on one side and the extension chain on the other, using open rings. If you wish, you can shorten the chain, but preferably use shears to cut it, as stainless steel is a very hard metal to cut.