National Hobby Month at Home

January 15, 2021

National Hobby Month at Home

It is National Hobby Month! You can celebrate National Hobby Month by making craft projects for yourself or for the interior of your home. You can go through your old jewelry pieces from your jewelry box and repair your old jewelry. Often, you can make old jewelry look new by making pendants out of broken string bead necklaces. Today, I have created a bead heart pendant by recycling the beads from a broken bead string necklace.

You can make a few pendants and use the same chain link necklace to create a different necklace to go with your outfits. In this example, I used lobster clasps to remove the pendant from the broken chain. However, you can use jump rings and a chain that is not broken to create several beaded pendants. Then, you can clean the chains separate from the pendants. Here is the tutorial to make this bead heart necklace.

Materials:

Broken chain link necklace

Jewelry pliers

8 Jewelry head pins

2 Lobster Clasps

4 Jump rings

Beads

First, insert two or three beads onto a head pin. Wrap the beads with the head pin. Repeat the same step. Second, connect the two beaded head pins together with another head pin. Wrap the head pin with the beaded head pins. Third, continue adding beads to head pins. You will need approximately eight head pins to complete the bead heart pendant. However, it depends on the size of the beads. Fourth, you will need to bend the head pin to make a heart shape as you continue adding the beads together. Continue wrapping the head pin with the beads until it forms into a heart. Fifth, wrap all the blank head pins that were used on each side of the beaded heart.

When the beaded heart is complete, insert one jump ring and a lobster clasp into the section of the wrapped wire. Close the jump ring and lobster clasp with the beaded heart with jewelry pliers. Repeat the same step for the other side of the beaded heart. After that connect the lobster clasps together with the broken chain link. Add jump rings to the ends of the chain to make it easier for the lobster clasps to hold the pendant with the chain.

Now, you can wear your recycled bead heart pendant necklace. Instead of jewelry head pins, you can use jewelry wire to make the shape of the heart to make the beaded heart pendant. You can use different color beads to make your beaded heart pendant or use the same color beads. Nevertheless, have fun making these bead heart pendants. Below are resources about National Hobby Month and making a bead heart pendant with jewelry wire.