Get Started: Bead Stringing

Make stylish jewelry you'll be proud to wear! With how-to help from hands-on instructors, you'll take your skills beyond basic stringing by learning to connect beads and findings with wire loops, head pins, split rings and jump rings. Finish a necklace and keep it secure with simple crimping techniques.

The [17-part, 1-hour] course includes:

1. Introduction to bead stringing
2. Making a plain loop
3. Making a wrapped loop
4. Making wraps above a top-drilled bead
5. Making a paddle head pin
6. Opening and closing a jump ring
7. Opening a split ring
8. Making a flattened crimp
9. Making a folded crimp
10. Using crimp covers
11. Working with bullion or French wire
12. Cutting or bending memory wire
13. Attaching folded crimp ends to ribbon or leather
14. All about Venetian beads
15. Balance and symmetry
16. Symmetrical necklace
17. Asymmetrical necklace

At the end of this course, you'll have the skills and the confidence to make fashionable jewelry to wear or share!