How to Make the Champagne Toast Necklace Set with SilverSilk Hollow Mesh
Cheers to beautiful you! Get warm and bubbly with this glowing design that is the perfect glam wear for special occasions. This tutorial walks you through using your beautiful Hollow Mesh with sparkling golds and shiny copper in a necklace design that is stunning alone, or can be worn layered up with more warm colors. This necklace will glow up and celebrate your creativity.
SilverSilk Hollow Mesh is a revolutionary knitted wire jewelry chain. It’s made by knitting wire as thin as human hair into a tubular wire mesh. The result is a 5mm hollow knitted wire tube that can be filled with beads, leather cord, chain, craft wire, seed beads, or virtually any material between 2-5mm found in your beading drawer. The possibilities are endless! Find out more about SilverSilk Hollow Mesh here.
Follow along each step in this tutorial guide, as well as in video form, to create this relaxing design.
Before we dive into the magic, let's gather our tools and materials:
Tools:
Cutters (Lindström Tools): Flush cutters used for making precise cuts to your Hollow Mesh
Chain Nose Pliers: These pliers will be used for opening and closing jump rings
Round Nose Pliers: Needed for forming wrapped loops above the cord ends and charms
Crimping Pliers: Needed to form crimps on your beading wire to finish ends.
Materials:
18 to 21in • SilverSilk Hollow Mesh in Copper
2 • 6mm Hollow Mesh Cord Ends, Shiny Copper
1 • SilverSilk Toggle Clasp, Shiny Copper
6 • 6mm Jump Rings, Shiny Copper
18 to 21in • 4mm Fire Polish Bead Strand, Metallic Pale Gold Half Coat
1 • Lobster Clasp, Shiny Copper
50in • Beading Wire, Fine
2 grams • Size 8/0 Seed Beads, Champagne, Miyuki 8-4204
25 • 6mm Czech Glass, Fire Polish Beads, Bronze Tanzanite
Champagne Toast Necklace Video Tutorial
Champagne Toast Necklace Written Step-By-Step Guide
Step 1: Measuring and Cutting Desired Length of Hollow Mesh
Measure a necklace length of Hollow Mesh. Using your flush cutters, cut each knit around the diameter of your SilverSilk Hollow Mesh to designed length. Cutting each knit will ensure that the mesh isn’t crushed, and you’ll have an easier time working with it. Clean up any wire splinters (or as I like to call them “fuzzies”) on the ends.
Step 2: Feeding 4mm Beads on Beading Wire through the Hollow Mesh
Working from the beading wire spool, string your desired length of 4mm fire polish beads. String a crimp bead onto the end of beading wire, then fold over the end and feed it back through the crimp tube. No need to crimp, this loop is to make feeding the beading wire through the Hollow Mesh easier. Feed this end through the Hollow Mesh. Periodically slide the other side down the cord to make room as you continue to move the bead strand through the mesh. Continue to exit from the other side. Make sure all beads are covered with Hollow Mesh with enough overlap to fold over the ends. If needed, remove a few beads so that the mesh covers them at the ends.
At this point, you can trim the beading wire free from the spool. Leave 3 to 4 inches of beading wire on each side to help you finish the ends with a crimp in the next steps.
Step 3: Preparing the Strand for the Cord Ends
To get your ends ready for the cord ends, pinch and compress the ends of the Hollow Mesh over the end beads on each side. Compressing the ends will ensure a precise fit inside the cord ends. If you’re interested in learning more about the custom line of SilverSilk findings, check out the SilverSilk Education section of the website.
Step 4: Finishing the Necklace Design with Cord Ends
String the beading wire through the cord ends on each side. The Hollow Mesh over the last bead should inset completely into the cap. String on a 2x2mm crimp tube onto the beading wire on each side. Feed the end of the beading wire back though the crimp and continue to feed it through the cord end until it can be seen exiting from below the cap. Form the crimp using your crimping pliers, leaving a beading wire loop above each cap. Trim the excess beading wire as close as you can below the cap, being careful not to cut your Hollow Mesh.
Step 5: Completing the Necklace with a Toggle Clasp
Open a 6mm jump ring. String on one side of your necklace by the beading wire loop and string on one side of your clasp. Close the jump ring. Repeat this on the other side to add the other side of your clasp.
The necklace is complete at this step, and can be worn on its own, but if you’d like to layer it, follow along for the next steps to create a second design, which follows our champagne toast with a dash of port!
Step 6: Planning and Stringing Your Accent Necklace Design
Measure the finished length of your Champagne Necklace. The finished length of the sample design ended up being 19in, measured including the clasp. If you’d like the second necklace to layer just below it, aim to make this second necklace with a finished length of about 20.5- to 21- inches. The easiest way to do this is by working from your beading wire spool. String on 6in of 6mm Fire Polish Beads. Lay that next to the first necklace and center it. Then measure the length up the sides to where they just pass the cord end. That measurement is the length of size 8 seed beads you’ll want to string. The sample has 6.25in of seed beads strung on each side. Once we add the crimp, jump rings, and clasp, the length will total close to 21 inches.
Step 7: Finishing your Second Necklace with Crimps and a Clasp
String 2x2mm crimp tubes on each side. Starting with one side first, feed the end of the beading wire back through the crimp, leaving a loop. Form the crimp using crimping pliers. On the other side of the necklace, bring that end of the beading wire back through the crimp tube on that side.
Tip: Make sure your necklace has flow before forming the second side’s crimp. The best way to do this is to lay in a gently curving position on the mat before crimping.
Once you’re satisfied with the design, use your crimping pliers to form the crimp on the second side. Open 6mm jump rings and attach the lobster claw clasp to one side. On the other side, close a 6mm jump ring to secure the clasp to.
Conclusion:
Now you have a stunningly beautiful necklace, made by you, and you are ready for your next Gala event to sport it! We hope you enjoyed this tutorial and feel inspired to make try this very high-end jewelry piece for your next event. Don't forget to check out the full video tutorial on YouTube. If you enjoyed it, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel for more exciting tutorials.
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