How to make a color block necklace with different SilverSilk Capture Chains
Materials:
Various colors of Capture Chain
Triple Strand End Caps
20-gauge Soft Flex Craft Wire
Ball Chain Connectors
I love love love color-blocking. Color blocking is a technique where you separate colors in an intentional way that juxtaposes or contrasts what is beside it. It's a very contemporary way to design your next necklace. I usually like to start with a sketch for my design. I’m by no capacity an artist, so I use simple shapes and lines to represent the components I’m working with and then jot down notes on how I will connect it all together.
For this particular design, I will be using ball chain connectors to crimp ends of different colored SilverSilk capture chains together.
Here, I pull back the knitted wire just enough to expose one bead of the ball chain and snap on the connector piece.
Once I have all my cut SilverSilk capture chain pieces assembled with the connectors, I lay them out and make sure my design and color scheme are balanced.
To cover the connectors, I used 20-gauge Soft Flex craft wire and made some 0.05in coil beads. Simply take a 12-inch length of wire, and coil it around the 5mm step of the mandrel and trim the raw ends.
String the coil over your connector and pinch in the wire end, so that it is embedded in the knits.
That’s really all there is to it! You can use the SilverSilk Triple Strand end caps to finish your design as I did in the video.
I can’t believe that was our final project for the Amazon Rainforest kit. Those that grabbed the kit made some fantastic designs. Pictured below are just a few of the designs made by Suzanne Brown, Laurena Whitwer, Donna Butler Ohori and Gloria Dilworth.
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Designer Spotlight
Meet designer, educator and bead store owner, Abbi Berta. She is very talented and design savvy when it comes to all things beads. If you don’t believe me, just hop on over to her youtube channel and see the giant library of videos she has made with high quality production. She pulled together some fantastic chains and some Pearlesque Chain in her recent design and worked craft wire around each of the components to make a stellar bracelet. While the Pearlesque Chain is available on this website, you’ll want to hop over to The Bead Place to shop for the bone-fish chain and the cup chain to make this design. Thanks for this great design idea Abbi!! I love your creativity! You can follow Abbi though her Instagram @abbiberta or as her business @thebeadplace.
