Interchangeable Forever Lei - Fall 2025

Lei Recipes

Pick your length below and follow the stringing pattern.

  1. Choose your finish: Necklace (magnet clasp + chain) or Purse Charm (2 swivels).
  2. Grab the General Supplies (per strand) and Tools.
  3. Key: • = 2mm gold ball spacer, ○ = feature bead

Stringing Patterns by Finished Length

7" — Pikake (no spacers)

  1. Beads: 20 × PIkake beads
  2. Pattern: ○ ○ ○ ○ ... (string all 30 in a row)
  3. Finish parts on wire: 2 crimps + 2 wire protectors
  4. Wire: Soft Touch .014 or .019 ~12"

8.25" — White Crown Flower + 2mm Gold Balls

  1. Beads: 14 × White Crown beads
  2. Spacers: 15 × 2mm gold balls or 8/0 seed beads
  3. Pattern (start & end with spacer):
    • ○ • ○ • … • ○ • (repeat [○ + •] fourteen times; you’ll have 15 spacers total)
  4. Finish parts on wire: 2 crimps + 2 wire protectors
  5. Wire: SSoft Touch .014 or .019 ~12"

9.25" — Pink Glass + 2mm Gold Balls

  1. Beads: 50 × Pink glass beads
  2. Spacers: 51 × 2mm gold balls
  3. Pattern (start & end with spacer):
    • ○ • ○ • … • ○ • (repeat [○ + •] fifty times; you’ll have 51 spacers total)
  4. Finish parts on wire: 2 crimps + 2 wire protectors
  5. Wire: Soft Touch .014 or .019 ~12"