Crystal Ornament

= 8/0 seed bead MATERIALS:

= 6mm bicone crystal
= 8mm bicone crystal
STEP 1: Thread your needle
with 2 yards of FireLine.
String eight seed beads.
Leaving about a 6- to 8-inch tail,
tie the beads in a double knot,
forming a circle of seed beads:
• 2 yards of 8 lb. FireLine
• 50 size 8/0 seed beads
• 9 size 6mm bicone crystals
• 8 size 8mm bicone crystals
• one 4-6mm jump ring
• ornament hook
STEP 5: Go through the next
seed bead on this circle of seed
beads (highlighted in RED):

STEP 2: Go back around through

this circle of seed beads:
STEP 3: Go through the next
seed bead on this circle of seed
beads (highlighted in RED):
STEP 4: String a seed bead,
an 8mm bicone crystal, a seed
bead, a 6mm bicone crystal,
a seed bead, an 8mm bicone
crystal and a seed bead.
Go around and back through
the seed bead that you exited
at the end of the last step
(highlighted in RED):
STEP 6: String a seed bead,
an 8mm bicone crystal, a seed
bead, a 6mm bicone crystal
and a seed bead.
Go around and back up through
the 8mm bicone crystal and the
seed bead that you added in
Step 4 (highlighted in RED) and
then through the seed bead on
the circle of seed beads that you
exited at the end of the last step
(also highlighted in RED):
STEP 7: Go through the next
seed bead on this circle of seed
beads (highlighted in RED):
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STEP 8: String a seed bead,
an 8mm bicone crystal, a seed
bead, a 6mm bicone crystal
and a seed bead.
Go around and back through the
8mm bicone crystal and the seed
bead that you added in Step 6,
through the seed bead that you
exited at the end of the last step
and then through the next seed
bead on the circle of seed beads
(all beads highlighted in RED):

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STEP 9: String a seed bead,
an 8mm bicone crystal, a seed
bead, a 6mm bicone crystal
and a seed bead.
Go around and back through
the 8mm bicone crystal and the
seed bead that you added in the
last step, through the seed bead
that you exited at the end of the
last step and then through the
next seed bead on the circle
of seed beads (all beads high-
lighted in RED):
STEP 10: String a seed bead,
an 8mm bicone crystal, a seed
bead, a 6mm bicone crystal
and a seed bead.
Go around and back through
the 8mm bicone crystal and the
seed bead that you added in the
last step, through the seed bead
that you exited at the end of the
last step and then through the
next seed bead on the circle
of seed beads (all beads high-
lighted in RED):
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STEP 11: Repeat Step 10: STEP 15: Go through the seed
bead, the 6mm bicone crystal
and the seed bead highlighted
in RED:
STEP 12: Repeat Step 10:
STEP 16: String a seed bead.
Go through the seed bead, the
6mm bicone crystal and the
seed bead highlighted in RED:
STEP 13: Go down through the
seed bead and 8mm bicone
crystal highlighted in RED:
STEP 17: String a seed bead.
Go through the seed bead, the
6mm bicone crystal and the
seed bead highlighted in RED:
STEP 14: String a seed bead,
a 6mm bicone crystal and a
seed bead.
Go around and across through
the 8mm bicone crystal at
about 9 o’clock, the three seed
beads and the 8mm bicone
STEP 18: Repeat Step 17 the rest
crystal at about 7 o’clock (all
of the way around the ornament:
beads highlighted in RED):
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STEP 19: Circle round through STEP 22: String a seed bead.
this outer ring of seed beads
Go back around through the
and 6mm bicone crystals twice
outer ring of seed beads and
(highlighted in RED):
6mm bicone crystals high-
lighted in RED:
Weave your way back into the
ornament, knot and cut your
thread.
Thread your needle with the tail
from Step 1, weave your way
into the ornament, knot and cut
your thread.

Attach your jump ring to an

ornament hook:

STEP 20: Go back around

through the seed beads and
6mm bicone crystals high-
lighted in RED:

STEP 23: Go back around

through the seed beads and
6mm bicone crystals highlighted
in RED and the jump ring:

STEP 21: String two seed beads,

a 6mm bicone crystal and seven
seed beads.
Go through the jump ring and
then back down through the
seven seed beads, the 6mm
bicone crystal and the seed bead
that you just strung:

You may wish to go around

through the outer ring of beads
and the jump ring again.

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