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Top 7 Bead Stringing Patterns

by Paula S. Morgan
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Bead stringing is a true bead art - you can make the most beautiful items with just stringing medial beads, time and beading talent, along with a few beading patterns and ideas to get you started.

1. Easy and Elegant Lariat Beaded Necklace

Delicate, sleek and elegant, this Lariat Beaded Necklace with a single shimmering Swarovski bead makes up quickly and get lots of compliments.

2. Make the Winter Storm Beaded Necklace

Images of a gray winter sky and the changing colors of clouds and rainfall are evoked in the simple beaded necklace of pearls, Labradorite beads and silver.

3. Bitty Bead Beauties

Use your Peyote Stitch Bitty Beads to make a necklace or bracelet of handmade beaded beads.

4. "Largely Leftovers" Multi-Strand Beaded Necklace

Using a a wide variety of leftover beads from other beading projects, you'll learn how to string multiple strands and use cones to join them in this Multi-Strand Beaded Necklace.

5. One Perfect Strand of Pearls

They are a wardrobe basic and these days, with the selection of pearl shapes and colors, you can make a pearl necklace for any dress, neckline or occasion!

6. The "Tin Cup" Beaded Necklace

A dainty and delicate beaded necklace, made with colored silk thread and just a few pearls or beads, this design has become a favorite and is always in style.

7. Resin Bead with Creamy Amber, Bronze Pearls and Peruvian Opal Beaded Necklace

This beaded necklace has a centerpiece of blue-green matte resin with accents of creamy amber, pearls and blue Peruvian opal.

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