One of the people who said yes please to me was Anthony, also known as the Elvish Taylor. I was inspired to create for him after this hilarious status update where he confessed to sewing his spectacles into the lining of a jacket he was making. He obviously needs a spectacle chain, so I got out my tiny beads.
I found some great earthy greens, blues and blacks and because of the Elf's fae nature I included some sparkly crystals and some haematite stars. So I poured them all onto my work mat and get stringing. Then I had to take most of it out and work out how to space the stars mostly evenly. A while later, and a few beads on the floor too, I had a spectacle chain.
Anthony loved it.
If you would like to make your own spectacle chain:
You will need:
- 2 spectacle ends
- some tigertail or other strong beading thread
- A selection of seed beads
- Some haematite stars
- Crimp beads
- Pliers
- A beading mat
Select your colour scheme and pour out some beads on your mat. Mix them up, adding until you have the colours you want.
Cut around 34 inches of tigertail. Slide on a crimp bead & loop the tigertail through one spectacle end and back through the crimp bead.
If you have crimping pliers close and fold the crimp, or just close it flat with flat pliers.
Thread on your beads, with the stars evenly spaced by poking the tigertail end at the beads on the mat to ease them onto the thin wire. If you are using a thread you will need a beading needle, but I still recommend picking up the beads from the mat with the needle rather than trying to pick them up by hand.
Once you have around 32 inches of beads slip on another crimp, thread it through the remaining spectacle end back through the crimp and close it.
Voila, you have your very own spectacle chain. If you change the ends you can make all kinds of lanyards and chains. Have fun
You can get all of the things you need on Amazon (see links below) or from places like Hobbcraft or your local craft store.
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