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Instructions

Toggle Necklace

INSTRUCTIONS:

• Start with a length of bead stringing wire that is approximately six inches longer than the piece of jewelry you intend to make.  Slide on a crimp bead, then the loop end of the toggle. Bend approximately two inches of the wire, going back through the crimp bead, and draw it snug against the clasp.
• Use your needle-nose pliers to flatten the crimp bead against the clasp so that it cannot slide up or down.
• String all of the beads onto the wire (the first few beads should be strung over both thicknesses of wire).
• Slide the second crimp bead onto the wire, then the other half of the clasp, then go back through the crimp bead and several other beads.
• Pull the wire until all of the beads are snug against each other.  Then, flatten the crimp bead.  Use a pair of wire cutters to cut off the remaining wire as close to the beads as possible.
• Create dangles using headpins or eyepins and glass beads (see Beaded Pendants), then attach to toggle loop with jump rings.  Important:  The proper way to open a jump ring is to twist it open, pushing it slightly apart from front to back, then just push back together to close.
• Necklace is worn with toggle clasp in the front as the focal point.