How to Make a Blue Braided Seed Bead Necklace

How to Make a Blue Braided Seed Bead Necklace at Home

Materials and tools needed in DIY the braided seed bead necklace:

3mm Blue Seed Beads

2mm White Seed Beads

Silver Twist Chains

Silver Jump Rings

Silver Cord Tips

Silver Lobster Clasp

Needles

White Sewing Thread

Needle Nose Plier

Stainless-Steel Scissor

Instructions on how to make the braided seed bead necklace:

Step 1: Make seed bead strands

1st, use needle and white sewing thread to string enough 2mm white seed beads to a desired length. Then, repeat this step to make 5 more such white seed bead strands;

2nd, use needle and white sewing thread to string enough 3mm blue seed beads to a desired length. Then, repeat this step to make 5 more such blue seed bead strands.

Step 2: Braid the seed bead strands

1st, put the 6 blue seed bead strands in the middle and 3 seed bead strands on the two sides of the 6 blue seed bead strands. Then, use a cord tip to combine one end of the seed beads strands together .

2nd, split the seed bead strands into four parts (every part has 3 seed bead strand, i.e. 3 white seed bead strands, 3 blue seed bead strands, 3 blue seed bead strands and 3 white seed bead strands);

3rd, put the left 3 white seed bead strands onto the second 3 blue seed bead strands but below the third 3 blue seed bead strands. Then, put the left 3 white seed bead strands onto the right 3 white seed bead strands

4th, put the right 3 white seed bead strands onto the third 3 blue seed bead strands but below the second 3 blue seed bead strands.

5th, put the right 3 white seed bead strands below the third 3 blue seed bead strands but onto the second 3 blue seed bead strands. Then, put the right 3 white seed bead strands below the left 3 white seed bead strands.

6th, repeat the above steps to braid the seed bead strands until it reaches the ends.

Step 3: Add twist chain, cord tips and lobster clasp

1st, use the plier to add a cord tip on the other end of the seed bead strands;

2nd, cut a silver twist chain into two pieces and combine them with the two cord tips on the two end;

3rd, connect the two ends together with a silver lobster clasp.

Here is the final look of the braided seed bead necklace.