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Pandora Style Beaded Bead Tutorial

In this tutorial, The Potomac Bead Company demonstrates how to use chain to make easy necklaces with a pendant onto which you can easily slide pandora style or other large hole beads.

Step 1: Choose Your Materials

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Step 2: Watch the 
Video Tutorial

Pandora Style Beaded Bead Tutorial
The Designer’s suggested colors and materials:
  • Fine cable chain (thin enough to double through the bead's hole)
  • Pandora-style beads (or other large hole beads)
  • Headpin
  • Round nose pliers
  • Flat nose pliers (optional)
  • Wire cutters

    • Step 3: Need More Help? Follow these Steps

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    Quick Project Steps

    Start with a fine cable chain, approximately three feet in length.
    Select your Pandora-style bead or any large hole bead you prefer.
    Slide a bead onto a headpin.
    Using round nose pliers, make a loop at the top of the bead.
    Before coiling the top, slide the last links of the chain onto the wire loop.
    Secure the loop by wrapping the wire around 1-4 times, depending on the length of your headpin. Cut off the excess wire.
    Slide on your chosen bead to the double chain. Your versatile Pandora style necklace is ready to wear.

    Step 5: Need Any Extra Materials?

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    • Potomacbeads Beading Ruler | Ultimate | Crystal | 9x3"
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    Step 5: Need Any Extra Materials?

    BeadTec Beading Ruler | Advanced | 6x3"
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    PotomacBeads Pliers - Round Nose Pliers
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    Step 6: Choose Your Next Project

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    Item Description

    In this tutorial, The Potomac Bead Company demonstrates how to use chain to make easy necklaces with a pendant onto which you can easily slide pandora style or other large hole beads.

    Designer's Material List

    The Designer’s suggested colors and materials:
  • Fine cable chain (thin enough to double through the bead's hole)
  • Pandora-style beads (or other large hole beads)
  • Headpin
  • Round nose pliers
  • Flat nose pliers (optional)
  • Wire cutters

    • Project Steps

    Start with a fine cable chain, approximately three feet in length.
    Select your Pandora-style bead or any large hole bead you prefer.
    Slide a bead onto a headpin.
    Using round nose pliers, make a loop at the top of the bead.
    Before coiling the top, slide the last links of the chain onto the wire loop.
    Secure the loop by wrapping the wire around 1-4 times, depending on the length of your headpin. Cut off the excess wire.
    Slide on your chosen bead to the double chain. Your versatile Pandora style necklace is ready to wear.