Rainbow Spider Suncatcher Tutorial | Beginner | PDF Download

A spider in every color of the rainbow. Each of the eight legs runs from deep purple through green, yellow and orange to a fiery red tip, and the whole piece hangs under a sparkling crystal drop. Catch the sun with it and watch the colors spill right across the room.

Level – Beginner.
Format – PDF, instant download.
Length – 13 pages, 28 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 Rainbow Spider 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.

A word of warning, kindly meant: the rainbow is the most bead-sorting of my spiders. Nothing in it is difficult, but lay the colors out in order before you start and the whole thing goes much faster.

You will need… (exact quantities and sizes are listed inside the PDF)
– 0.6 mm (22 gauge) white wire, about 1.5 m — cut into 4 × 20 cm (8 in) lengths for the legs
– One 20 mm crystal bead — the body
– One 8 mm pink round bead — the head
– Eight 8 mm rainbow oval beads — one at the top of each leg
– 4 mm bicone beads in purple, dark purple, grass green, yellow, orange and dark red — the legs
– 6 mm rondelle beads in purple, light green, orange, yellow and dark red — the legs
– Eight 7 mm purple cone beads — the leg tips
– 32 black flat beads and 24 gold flower spacer beads — the connectors
– One 14 mm hexagon crystal and one 22 × 12 mm prism crystal — the hanging drop
– One eye pin (30–35 mm) for the body, plus 6 more for the drop and chain segments
– 20 cm (8 in) of silver chain, 15 small and 2 large jump rings

Tools…
– Round-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 don't 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.