I will admit it – I am officially “hooked” on designing crochet jewelry!  It’s so fun, simple, and quick!  I created one project for a magazine that needed a few jewelry findings, and once I saw the selection of findings I was inspired to keep creating.  Every time I go check out the jewelry findings section at a local store I find another project just calling my name.  It doesn’t take much convincing to get me crocheting!!

I created this necklace to show off this awesome slide clasp I found.  I’m imagining more projects with this because it doesn’t look like a clasp at all and I like having such a pretty way of fastening.

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Elegant Simplicity Necklace

by Amanda Saladin

What You’ll Need

Yarn: Aunt Lydia’s Fashion 3 Crochet Thread in Warm Teal

Hook: D (3.0 mm)

Notions:

• 2 End bars with 3 rings
• 1 Slide clasp
• 2 4mm jump rings

Size: Approximately 16″ long and 1/2″ wide without clasp

Gauge: 24 sts and 24 rows = 4″ using sc in front and back loops

Special Abbreviations:

• flo: front loop only
• blo: back loop only

PATTERN

Ch 101.

Row 1: Sc in 2nd ch from hook and each ch across – 100 sts.

Row 2: Ch 1, *sc flo, sc blo; repeat from * across.

Row 3: Ch 1, *sc blo, sc flo; repeat from * across.

Fasten off.

Finishing:

Wet block.

Sew end bars to short ends.

Attach clasp with jump rings.  (Of course I didn’t take a picture of this step!  I found this tutorial that explains it well!)  You get a good look at the jump rings in the photo above with the clasp.  I attached one jump ring to each end bar then one end of the clasp to each jump ring.

You’re done!!