Free Sunburst Necklace Pattern

Here's a free necklace pattern that will take you from easy stringing to painless stitching! I designed this Sunburst Necklace for Beadalon's newest ad campaign. If you follow the Beadmaster link, you'll be treated to one of the newest innovations in beading instruction: fully animated instructions!

I've been using this new technology to teach my classes and I can tell you that students absolutely love it. You can really see the thread pathways and how everything goes together. (The Beadmaster version of my Sunburst Necklace is a little appetizer to show you how the animation works. The full, copyright-free Beadmaster collection is available on DVD or in a kit with CD-rom.)

The Sunburst Necklace/Beadalon ad is just starting to hit magazines in the UK, so I've been getting a lot of sourcing questions. I bought the purple shell bead frame from Black Market Minerals, but these types of frames are widely available at bead shows, craft stores and bead shops right now. The seed beads and cubes are Toho brand, in mixed colors.