Diva Time Necklace

• Start a thread at the edge of the bead-embroidered piece.
• Sew from back to front making a very small stitch through the interfacing and leather edge.
• Pick up three seed beads and stretch the bead thread along the line where the beads will go.
• Make another stitch through the interfacing and leather edge just after the third bead.
• Sew back through the third bead to form a picot.
• Pick up two beads and stitch through the interfacing and leather at the edge of the next picot.
• Go back through the last bead added (as before).
• Continue beading around the entire piece until you meet the first picot.
• Add one bead and go through the existing (first) bead to make the final picot (figure H).

• Start a thread in the desired location coming out through one of the secure beads of a picot.
• String enough beads to reach the end point of the festoon and sew through the secure bead of the closest picot.
• To double the strand, repeat steps ending the second strand at the starting point of the first.
• Add more beads to the second festoon so that it dangles lower than the strand above (figure I).

• String a bead onto a head or eye pin.
• Place the tip of chain nose pliers against the bead.
• With round nose pliers, grasp the tail just past the bend and pull it over the jaw to point the other way.
• Grasp the tail with chain nose pliers to pull it around the wire until it meets the bead (figure K).
• Make the first wrap against the pliers to form a closed loop.
• Snip excess wire with wire cutters.

16. Insert the photo into the pocket watchcase (figure L).

17. Using the seed beads make a short beaded strand to attach the pocket watchcase and sew onto the center of the bead-embroidered piece (figure M).

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