Centipede Suncatcher Tutorial | Beginner | PDF Guide

A long, sectioned crystal body with fifteen pairs of tiny beaded legs — this centipede really looks like it is crawling across the glass. Fifteen pairs sounds like a lot, but every pair is the same few moves, so it turns into a calm, repetitive make rather than a hard one.

Level – Beginner.
Format – PDF, instant download.
Length – 19 pages, 48 photographed steps.

This is a digital PDF tutorial — NOT a physical kit and NOT a finished suncatcher. Nothing is shipped to you.

Want the beads and the wire too? My Centipede Suncatcher DIY Kit has everything cut, counted and ready — every bead, the wire, the chain, the findings — and this same written tutorial comes free with it. So if you're already thinking about the kit, buy that instead and you'll get these instructions included.

You will need… (exact quantities and sizes are listed inside the PDF)
– Silver craft wire, 0.6 mm (22 gauge) — about 118 in (3 m)
– About 200 white seed beads — the antennae and the leg joints
– One 6 mm white rondelle and one 8 mm round bead — the head
– 10 mm rondelles: one white and two purple
– Eleven 10 mm pink-purple amethyst rounds — the body segments
– 30 white cone beads and 22 purple cone beads, 7 mm — the tops and tips of the legs
– 80 pink, 32 dark-purple and 6 light-purple bicones, 4 mm — the legs
– 48 pink rhinestone beads, 6 mm — the leg joints
– Four octagon crystal beads and one 20 mm faceted crystal ball — the hanging drop
– One 16 in (40 cm) hanging chain
– Jump rings: 10 large, 10 small

Tools…
– Round-nose pliers
– Flat-nose pliers
– Wire cutters (an old pair of scissors you don't mind nicking will do in a pinch)

Written in English, with both metric and inch measurements throughout. I've put my contact details in every file in case you get stuck on a step.

If I update a tutorial, I'll email you the new version free of charge. Because these are instant-download digital files I can't accept returns — but please message me if anything is unclear or your download doesn't work, and I'll sort it out.

Please DO NOT resell, share or claim these tutorials as your own. You're very welcome to sell the suncatchers you make from them — just credit the design to Crystal Flare.

Happy making,
Emily — Crystal Flare.