Quick fix clasp for elderly or stiff fingers

This Mother’s Day I made some beads for my Mum. She’d mentioned that she’d like one so I thought I’d surprise her.

I wanted to give her a choice and something that she could easily switch out when she wanted.
Mum’s problem is that she has trouble putting necklaces on because of the clasp.

She has one I made with a magnetic clasp that she really likes, so I wanted to use one of those.
Problem was the magnetic clasp made it impossible to slip the beads or pendants off and on.

Here’s what I came up with -

All you need to do this is

1. a ready made chain
2. two split rings
3. a magnetic clasp

I removed the clasp from the necklace by taking the ring that holds it in place off .  Then added a split ring to that end of the necklace and added one part of the magnetic clasp to it.

I then took the magnetic clasp, threaded the second split ring onto it and added the necklaces original clasp back onto this split ring.

THEN, the clasp can be hooked into the necklace as it would normally, BUT you don’t need to use it to take the necklace off and on – you use the magnetic clasp for this.

IF you want to change the bead or pendant that is on the necklace you can simply unhook the clasp and slide the bead or pendant over the small end of the chain – nice and simple!

This was a much more successful Mother’s Day project than THIS

But more on THAT later.  Suffice to say you should never try to cook Angel Food cake in a toaster oven — but you already knew that right?? D