Swaying in Harmony Necklace & Earrings
©2020 by Cynthia Rutledge

Combine a beautiful chain with a dramatic pendant, and you have a contemporary necklace that has timeless elegance. Whether you wear it with jeans and western boots, or a velvet cocktail outfit, Swaying in Harmony will be a staple in your wardrobe. Add earrings and this set will be indispensable!

Using my 2-part bezeling techniques, an 18mm cushion cut CZ and a 18x13mm pear CZ are simply bezeled and embellished. Connected together with beaded jump-rings and then attached to the chain with a flat peyote stitch bail. The chain is quite unusual. It is a variation of netting which makes this chain flexible, strong and beautiful.

Since the necklace is long, earrings seemed the best way to accent all of the details. Continuing with the 2-part bezeling techniques, 10mm CZs and 18x13mm pear CZs are bezeled, embellished and attached to each other. The addition of the amazing CZ-set ear wires adds that last elegant touch.

Skill level: Intermediate to advanced. Basic peyote stitch skills are required.

Workshop length: This is a one-day workshop.

Dimensions:
Necklace: Cord is a 39-inch (99cm) long circle. The pendant is 1 inch (2.5cm) wide by 2 ¾ inches (7cm) long including the bail.
Earrings: ¾ inches (2cm) wide by 2 ¼ inches (5.75cm) long

Techniques:

• Bezel work

• Embellishing techniques

• Flat-circular even count peyote stitch with increasing

• Flat-odd count peyote stitch done in the step up/step down technique

• Flat peyote stitch with increasing Filled netting

• Netting variation

• Stitch-in-the-ditch techniques

• Tubular peyote stitch with decreasing