Bead & Button – October 2019

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13 new

CRAW units

end view

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b

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b

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150 seed bead

110 cylinder bead

2 mm fire-polished

bead

SS30 rose montée

14 x 10 mm

pear-shaped

fancy stone

in setting

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SET THE STONE

Hold the stone face up in the setting, and use

nylon-jaw pliers to bend each of the four prongs

down onto the face of the stone. Set aside.

CRAW FRAME

1) On 2 yd. (1.8 m) of thread, and leaving a 6-in.

(15 cm) tail, use 15 0 seed beads to work a cubic

right-angle weave (CRAW) strip that is eight

units long. Then sew through the adjacent side

bead in the end unit (figure 1).

2) Using the four beads on one side of the end

unit as a new base, work 13 new CRAW units

perpendicular to the first eight units (figure 2).

This forms an L-shaped piece with an inner

surface and an outer surface.

Capture a pear-shaped crystal stone within a cubic right-angle

weave (CRAW) frame for a dramatic yet delicate pendant fit

for a night on the town.

materials
gold pendant
1¼ x 1^5 ⁄ 8 in. (3.2 x 4.1 cm)

• 1 14 x 10 mm pear-shaped fancy stone
  (Swarovski 4320, pacific opal)


• 1 SS30 (6.3–6.5 mm) rose montée
  (Swarovski 53103, light colorado topaz)


• 15 2 mm fire-polished beads (True2,
  24K gold-plated)


• 1 g 110 cylinder beads (Miyuki Delica
  DB0031, 24K gold-plated)


• 3 g 150 seed beads (Miyuki 191,
  24K gold-plated)


• 1 two-hole open-back setting for
  14 x 10 mm pear-shaped stone
  (Swarovski 4320S, gold)


• beading needles, #12


• Fireline, 6 lb. test


• nylon-jaw pliers

Find info for the alternate colorway at
FacetJewelry.com/resourceguide

Find basics online:
FacetJewelry.com/basics

• right-angle weave


• ending and adding thread

FIGURE 1 FIGURE 3

FIGURE 4

FIGURE 2 FIGURE 5

To find all

the basic CRAW

techniques, visit

FacetJewelry.com/

resourceguide

3) Sew through the end unit to exit the end

bead on the outer surface. Pick up two 15 0 s,

and sew through the same 15 0 your thread just

exited. Continue through the first 15 0 just added

(figure 3, a–b). Pick up a 15 0 , sew through the

next 15 0 in the previous pair, the other three

end 15 0 s, and the three new 15 0 s (figure 4, a–b).

Set this piece aside.

4) Repeat steps 1–3 to make a second

L-shaped piece.

JOIN THE FRAME PIECES

1) Place the two L-shaped pieces next to each

other with the eight-unit legs at the bottom and

the corners facing away from each other.

note The surfaces that are currently

facing you will be referred to as the

front, but the actual front and back

won’t be established until you add

the crystals.

With the tail on one piece, sew through the four

150 s in the end ring to exit the front surface end

bead (figure 5, point a).

2) Pick up a 15 0 , and sew through the corre-

sponding 15 0 on the other piece (a–b). Pick up