Beaded Pendant

I haven’t made any beaded jewelry in the last several months. I really miss it. I’ve been telling myself to make time to do that. I also miss crocheting and knitting. There is not enough time to do everything we love, is there?

Well, I MADE time yesterday to do this beaded pendant. I needed a silver pendant to go with some of my outfits. I had hoped it was going to be a bigger pendant but it turned out to be only an inch wide. Now I will have to make two more of this pendant below and hopefully figure out a creative necklace design out of it.

I made this pendant three times before I got it right on the third try. That usually doesn’t happen but this design had a lot of complicated interchange that I goofed on because I was watching a show at the same time. The pendant only took a total of an hour to make. The pattern is called “Squared Away” and came from a beading book called Creative Beading, Volume 9. See the pictures below.