Bead and make a necklace is a great hobby for many parents have children. In today’s project, I am going to show you how to make a heart necklace, actually, to make a necklace with heart pendant. And, more significantly, the used materials and tools are very common ones that you may easily get from the shops. Though the whole beading methods are a little complicated, just combine the word explanation and illustrations together! Let’s do it now!

Materials needed while learning how to make a heart necklace:

8/0 Glass Seed Bead

12/0 Glass Seed Bead

Glass Bead

Iron Jumpring

Organza Ribbon

Nylon Wire

 

Tools needed while learning how to make a heart necklace:

Side Cutting Plier

How to make a heart necklace?

Step1: Make the skeleton of the heart pendant necklace

Main materials: one 3m long Nylon Wire, several 12/0 Glass Seed Beads

Main beading method:

Part1: find the center position of the Nylon Wire by folding it; then add 12/0 Glass Seed Bead*3 onto the center, finally cross two wire tips through another 12/0 Glass Seed Bead;

Part2: To the rest part, add 12/0 Glass Seed Bead*1 onto each wire tip and cross two tips through another 12/0 Glass Seed Bead again;

Part3: to connect the starting part and ending part, in the 37th loop, string 12/0 Glass Seed Bead*1 onto the below wire tip; then feed the other tip through the starting 12/0 Glass Seed Bead; at last, cross the two tips from one more 12/0 Glass Seed Bead. Here the 1st layer of your necklace is finished!

Attention: as the picture shows, the whole skeleton of the heart pendant necklace can be divided into 37 connected beads loops; here, in this project, in the loop 22,29,30,32,34, you need to string 12/0 Glass Seed Bead*2 onto each wire tip!

Step2: How to make a heart necklace completely

When get the rough heart shape of your necklace, here you can start to bead the second layer for your heart pendant necklace.

Main materials: 8/0 Glass Seed Bead*13, Glass Bead*5, several 12/0 Glass Seed Bead

Main beading method:

Add proper bead onto each wire tip and then cross both tips from another 12/0 Glass Seed Bead.

Attentions:

Attention1: in the 37th loop, string 8/0 Glass Seed Bead*1 and 12/0 Glass Seed Bead*1 onto the above wire tip; then lead the below tip from the adjoining 12/0 Glass Seed Bead in the first layer; finally, cross both tips through another 12/0 Glass Seed Bead.

Attention2: in the loop 1~7, you just need to add 12/0 Glass Seed Bead*1 onto each wire tip; but between the loop 3 and 4, when lead the below tip from the adjoining 12/0 Glass Seed Bead, you need to weave the wire through two 12/0 Glass Seed Beads in them at same time. This is the concave portion in the heart pendant necklace.

Attention3: in the loop 8~13, replace the last bead with 8/0 Glass Seed Bead. Furthermore, the number of added 12/0 Glass Seed Bead should add to 2 pieces except in loop 12 (remain add on one 12/0 Glass Seed Bead).

Attention4: between loop 20~21, repeat the process as same as that between loop 3~4 in attention2. And you will get the convex part in heart pendant necklace.

Attention5: in the loop 25~27, lead one tip from the adjoining 12/0 Glass Seed Bead in layer1; to another tip, string one 12/0 Glass Seed Bead on it and then cross both tips through an 8/0 Glass Seed Bead. In the loop 28, change the number of added 12/0 Glass Seed Bead from 1 to 2.

Attention6: in loop 29~33, the tip near the first layer remain weave the adjoining 12/0 Glass Seed Bead, but to the other tip, change the number of 12/0 Glass Seed Bead from 1 to 3, and then cross pass two tips from one Glass Bead. (When facing the loop made of 6 12/0 Glass Seed Beads in layer1, just regarded the two 12/0 Glass Seed Beads as one group)

Attention7: in loop 34~36, the number of added 12/0 Glass Seed Beads should be: 3pieces, 2 pieces and 1 piece. In the end, tie a knot to finish whole project about how to make a heart necklace.

Step3: The ending work of your heart pendant necklace

In the loop36, hang on a Jumpring and then add on the Organza Ribbon by using a larks head knot.

In this project about how to make a heart necklace, you may feel crazy about so much words description, do not give up easily without doing some efforts! After finishing make a necklace, you may find that actually the hardest point is not the beading method but the lacking of patience. In addition, the attentions in this tutorial are really very vital due to they are the decisive factor for the heart shape of your necklace pendant.