Necklace

The necklace worked out much as I visualised. Here's a close up:

The thread is one of my charity shop finds. It doesn't have a brand label, but it has a sticker saying 54 random dye mink 21. I used Starlit shuttle. It's a little awkward to work with, but is big enough to fit a lot of beads comfortably. The Swarovski crystals were on the ball thread but most of  the seed beads were on the shuttle.