How to Make a Blue Braided Seed Bead Necklace at Home

Seed beads are tiny, little beads that can be used in different jewelry making projects. In today's DIY project, you can see a blue braided seed bead necklace. Now, let's see the detail instructions on how to make this blue braided seed bead necklace.

Materials and tools needed in DIY the braided seed bead necklace:

3mm Blue Seed Beads
2mm White Seed Beads
Silver Twist Chains
Silver Jump Rings
Silver Cord Tips
Silver Lobster Clasp
Needles
White Sewing Thread
Needle Nose Plier
Stainless-Steel Scissor

Instructions on how to make the braided seed bead necklace:

Step 1: Make seed bead strands

1st, use needle and white sewing thread to string enough 2mm white seed beads to a desired length. Then, repeat this step to make 5 more such white seed bead strands;
2nd, use needle and white sewing thread to string enough 3mm blue seed beads to a desired length. Then, repeat this step to make 5 more such blue seed bead strands.

Step 2: Braid the seed bead strands

1st, put the 6 blue seed bead strands in the middle and 3 seed bead strands on the two sides of the 6 blue seed bead strands. Then, use a cord tip to combine one end of the seed beads strands together (as shown in the picture);
2nd, split the seed bead strands into four parts (every part has 3 seed bead strand, i.e. 3 white seed bead strands, 3 blue seed bead strands, 3 blue seed bead strands and 3 white seed bead strands);
3rd, put the left 3 white seed bead strands onto the second 3 blue seed bead strands but below the third 3 blue seed bead strands. Then, put the left 3 white seed bead strands onto the right 3 white seed bead strands (as show in the picture);
4th, put the right 3 white seed bead strands onto the third 3 blue seed bead strands but below the second 3 blue seed bead strands (as shown in the picture);
5th, put the right 3 white seed bead strands below the third 3 blue seed bead strands but onto the second 3 blue seed bead strands. Then, put the right 3 white seed bead strands below the left 3 white seed bead strands.

6th, repeat the above steps to braid the seed bead strands until it reaches the ends.

Step 3: Add twist chain, cord tips and lobster clasp

1st, use the plier to add a cord tip on the other end of the seed bead strands;
2nd, cut a silver twist chain into two pieces and combine them with the two cord tips on the two end;
3rd, connect the two ends together with a silver lobster clasp.

Here is the final look of the braided seed bead necklace.

This blue braided seed bead necklace looks elegant, right? By stringing different colors of seed beads, you can make striking seed bead necklace. As you can see from the above instructions, DIY your own seed bead necklace is very easy. Have a try.