In summer, we love wearing bracelets on our wrists. Especially in accumulation, they're this season's must-have! We have fun mixing materials, shapes, sizes and colors for a unique result.
In this tutorial, Tiffanie invites you to create not one, but three matching bracelet designs using three different techniques:
- A bracelet with a Brick Stitch bead weave. In Brick Stitch weaving, the beads are woven on top of each other, rather like building a brick wall. The thread connecting two beads in the row below is used to add a new bead above. Find out more about the iaguille brick stitch technique on our technical data sheets.
- A macramé and seed bead bracelet.
- A simple pearl bracelet strung with Miyuki pearls. To finish off this bracelet, Tiffanie chose a pearl as a sliding fastener so she could easily adjust the jewel to fit the wrist. The bead used can be replaced by a more suitable stopper bead.
The weaving grid on the bracelet comes from the Summer Nights weaving kit that Perles & Co offered as a limited edition. It's no longer on sale, but we thought it would be nice to share the diagram with designers who might have missed it.
The 8/0 seed beads in the kit were originally Rocailles Toho 8/0 Hybrid Hazelnut Metallic (TO8R-YPS0075), but the part number listed in the hardware list will be prettier.
You can adapt this trio of bracelets by adjusting the colors of the beads and wires to suit your taste. It's up to you!
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Brick Stitch Bracelet
Cut 1.5 m of thread and thread a needle on each end of the thread. Thread a white bead. This is the first bead in the row of 25 beads framed in the blue diagram. Thread a dark blue bead through both needles, crossing them and bringing it closer to the first bead in the middle of the thread.
Repeat step 2 to weave the remaining 23 beads in the row.
Cut 30 cm of C-LON wire. Thread the wire through the white bead on one end, thread an 8/0 seed bead on both ends of the wire and knot the wire closest to the seed bead. Do the same on the other side.
Remove one of the needles. Thread 1 white bead and 1 dark blue bead and slide the needle under the thread connecting beads #23 and #24 on the diagram. Pull until the new beads are side by side, but do not pull too hard. Go back through the bottom of bead #27.
Go back into bead #26 and then into bead #27 to attach the two beads together. You have just made a Brick Stitch decrease.
Add a turquoise bead and pass the needle under the thread connecting beads #22 and #23 and then pass through the bead again. Continue weaving according to the pattern and repeat step 4 to begin weaving a new row. Weave the entire top section of the pattern.
Once the last bead of the top part is threaded, return with the thread into the beads shown on the diagram and pull out the thread through bead #24.
Turn the weave over to begin weaving the other half of the bracelet. Thread 1 white and 1 blue bead and repeat steps 4 and 5. Continue weaving following the pattern and using the previous steps. Finish by catching and cutting the thread.
To make the bracelet slip knot, cut 15 cm of C-LON wire. Cross the wires of the bracelet and tie the 15 cm piece around the 4 ends of the wire. Tighten the knot.
Make an "overhand knot" or macramé knot. Pass the left thread under the right thread and over the bracelet threads. Pass the right thread under the bracelet threads and over the left thread. Tighten.
Make the same knot by reversing the right and left threads. Repeat steps 10 and 11, twice. Tighten well and then cut the wires 3 mm from the knot (pink on the diagram) and burn them carefully using a lighter or a wire burner. Measure your closed fist for the size of wire needed to easily thread the bracelet and mark the wires with a pencil. Thread an 8/0 bead onto each end and then tie a knot to hold them in place. Cut and burn the remaining wire.
Macrame bracelet with beads
Cut 1 wire of 70 cm and another of 1,5 m. Fold the 70 cm wire in half and tie the 1.5 m wire around it to form a 1.2 cm long loop. Tape the loop to hold the wires in place.
String 40 or more 8/0 beads on the two center wires. With 40 beads you can make a bracelet of about 16.5 cm for a wrist of 15/15.5 cm.
Tape the ends of the center wire together to keep them straight. Slide the first bead against the knot and then, with the outer wires, make an overhand knot that will trap the bead. See steps 10 and 11.
Slide another bead against the knot and make another overhand knot. Continue until you have woven all the beads.
Thread the Candy bead onto the two center wires, make a single knot and tie each wire with the overhand knot wires so that the knot ends up under the bead. Burn the ends of the wires so that the knot merges. Caution! Do not burn your bracelet.
Other method: Burn the two wires of the overhand knot then thread the candy bead. Tie the last two wires together and burn them.
Simple bracelet Miyuki
Measure your hand size with closed fist to know the diameter of the bracelet you need to put on. Cut a piece of C-LON wire of this size + 10 cm.
Make a double knot on one end. Thread 2 Toho 8/0 seed beads and as many Delicas as you wish. Center the Delicas on the bracelet without the seed beads. Mark the first and last beads with a pencil. Tie a knot at each mark to hold the Miyuki Delica in the center.
Pass the wire through the second 8/0 seed bead, crossing the wires on the inside. This bead will act as a sliding closure. You can also use a stopper bead or make a macramé overhand knot like on the first bracelet.
Thread a new Toho 8/0 and tie a knot. Burn the ends of the yarn to prevent fraying or use glue.
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