Flower Meadow

Step 1

Size: The finished necklace measures approximately 67 cm but can be made to measure.

Note: In the diagrams, beads with a black outline are the new beads being added, beads with no outline were added in previous steps.

To make your first flower

Thread your needle with 1 m of thread and pick up 1x PB. Leaving a 15 cm tail, pass your needle through the PB again so that a thread lays on the outside edge of the bead. Pass your needle through the PB 3 more times and arrange the threads so that 2 lay on either side of the bead on opposite sides. Figure 1.

Step 3

The next row uses 2-drop circular brick stitch and is also an increase row. Begin by picking up 4x R10 and passing your needle under the thread bridge created between the first and last R10 added in the previous row, and back through the third and fourth R10 just added. Figure 3a.
 

Pick up 2 x R10 and pass your needle under the next thread bridge along and back through the 2x R10 just added. Pick up 2 x R10 and pass your needle under the same thread bridge and back through the new R10. Repeat this 1 more time so that you have 3 stacks of 2x R10 anchored to the same thread bridge. Figure 3b.
 

Continue working in this manner adding 1 stack of 2 beads at a time but anchoring 2 stacks to 1 thread bridge and 3 stacks to the next thread bridge. You will need an even number of stacks in this row so at the end of the row you should have a total of 32 stacks. Figure 3c and 3d. As this row progresses you will see a ruffled effect as shown in Figure 3e, take care not to miss any thread bridges as you work.


Complete the row by stitching the first and last stacks together to join them into a ring as shown in Figure 3f.
 

Step 7

Using the 2 pairs of flat nose pliers, open a 5 mm jump ring and pass it through a picot on the R10A flower and through a link at the end of 2 small sections of chain before closing it again. Figure 7.

Step 11

Add one of the final small sections of chain to a picot of one of the end flowers and attach the other end to the clasp using a 5 mm jump ring. Attach the final small section of chain to the end flower on the opposite side of the necklace and attach the 6 mm jump ring to the other end. To add the extension chain/ decorative dangle, add a 5 mm jump ring to one end of the larger section of chain and pass it through a picot on the R10I flower before closing it. Add the final 5 mm jump ring to the other end of the long section of chain and pass it through the 6 mm jump ring at the end of the necklace before closing it.