Japanese Cross Pendant. (For Molly)

This is a Japanese Cross pendant. Using the chainmaille weave Japanese 12-in-2 I love it. I will do a flower of life pendant... just bare with me when I do it. ( I threw it against the wall and, then on the floor ...where it stayed for 5 hours before I relaxed and started it again)

I made a few of these but this one in particular is for my very good friend Molly.

For this project you will need very few items. All of them can be purchased at Blue Buddha Boutique

• D18 Aluminum Rings
• D20 Enameled Copper, I'm using Enameled Copper Black and Eggplant, Enameled Copper (Silvered) Lime, Peach and, Peacock.
• T18 Aluminum
• Bail
• Chain
• Pliers dipped in tool magic (keeps it from scratching the rings as you work)
• Mat to work on

Btw for this project I actually got my bail and chain from Fire Mountain Gems and Beads

So let's get this started! Molly I hope you enjoy!

So here we have the main sizes that you will need for this pattern
D18, T18, D20 (ignore the dark teal, I didn't use it for this pendant)

These are the actual supplies I used.

I Love these bright colors, I think of Molly as a Bright, beautiful person. These colors fit her.

Sprinkle out a few D18 rings and a few D20 Black rings.

Open a D18 ring and, place four Black D20 rings on it. Make sure all the D20 rings are closed. Close the D18 ring.

Double the D18 ring

Now add 2 D18 to each of the Black D20 rings

Add 2 Black D20 rings to each of the 2 D18 rings

Now here is where you would pick how you want your pattern to look (btw you can pick any color pattern you want, even the black rings) Here I've chosen to have D20 Peach and D20 Eggplant on the bottom. Don't worry you'll see the pattern soon enough. So Put 2 D20 Peach rings on the RIGHT side of each set of black rings.

It should look like this after you're done.

Now add 2 D20 Eggplant rings on the LEFT side of the black rings. See here I messed up on the Eggplant rings. Right side.. it's easy to fix. Just open the ring and place it in the right spot.

Now add 2 D18 Aluminum rings to the center black rings. Do this for all four sides.

Now decide where you want the last two color rings. I decided that I wanted the Lime to match up with the Eggplant and the Peacock with the Peach. For this step just add 2 D20 Lime rings to each Aluminum set of rings.

Now add the 2 D20 Peacock rings, making sure they on the side matching with the Peach rings.

Here's where the T18 rings finally come in. Take one and open it slightly.

Starting with either a Lime set of rings or a Peacock set of rings ( because these are the starting point and the ends) Here I started with Peacock Go through both....

Go down and loop through both of the Peach rings..

 Go through the Eggplant rings.

Last but not least go through the 2 Lime rings. Double the T18 ring. You have completed one side. Do this for all 4 sides.

In this picture Peacock is the first shown and it goes over to Lime. You can easily turn it around for Lime to come first.

Like this

This is the bail, there are different kinds of bails but, this one is pretty simple, pictured is what it looks like when you get it

With this particular bail you have to add 2 D18 rings to the top of your pendant. This will ensure that the pendant lays flat across the neck.

Use your pliers and open the bail, place the chain in and hold it in your hands like so. You're going to flip it over and place the end of the pendant (where the D20 rings are)

Like so...

Now use your pliers to close the pendant , Do not apply to much pressure, you want just enough so that neither the chain or the rings slip out. In this picture it's still open.

Here it is closed.

Viola!!!