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Beading Ideas - How to Make a Netted Bracelet |
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To make the bracelet, you will
need:
Materials:
- 2 x Silver ornate multi end
bars (7 hole)
- 1 x Silver lobster clasp with
jump ring (13mm)
- 72 Cinnamon square holed
silver lined 3mm (Size 8) seed beads.
- 304 Metallic Silver Seed beads
Size 11.
- 210 Metallic Copper seed beads
Size 11.
- 76 Light Smoked Topaz Bicone
Swarovski crystals (4mm – 5301)
- 76 Light Colorado Topaz Bicone
Swarovski Crystals (4mm – 5301)
Tools:
- 1 Beading needle
- Super Ion Nylon in a
beige/natural colour
- Hypo Glue
The following project when created is a length of 17.5cm wrist
size. To lengthen or shorten the wrist size use the first row of
the directions below to either add or subtract the number of
‘patterns’ require for the desired length.
Let’s
get started!
Thread your needle with 2 metres of the beadalon cotton and pull
through so you have a double thread, then make a double knot with
both ends.
Picking up your end bar pass the needle through the first hole of
the end bar then through the end (where knot is) of the double
thread. Do this two or three times.
With the needle pick up a cinnamon bead, Light Smoked Topaz bead
and six silver seed beads – thread these on – then
pick up three copper seed beads and thread needle back through
the last silver bead. Congratulations you’ve just made your
first piquot!
Add one more silver bead then we start the pattern.
The
Pattern:
I have chosen to mix up the two colours of the
bicones.
- I have done this by threading
a Light Smoked first then the Cinnamon seed bead (or larger size
8) then the Light Colorado Bicone. (if you choose this method the
colours will eventually match up, as you will be doing the same
pattern on the return leg).
Now thread two silver beads, three copper beads, threading back
through the last silver bead for the next piquot, add a silver
bead then start the Pattern again.
For the 17.5cm length (from end bar to end bar) please repeat the
above pattern eight times.
- After the eighth pattern is
completed thread on the ninth pattern, but instead of threading
two silver beads and three copper beads, thread three silver then
three copper beads for the piquot and then five silver beads
bicone and cinnamon bead – this is the end of the bracelet
– now thread onto end bar in the same manner that you
started.
Pull work tight but keep in mind that you will be passing the
needle back through the Cinnamon seed bead so a certain amount of
‘give’ is required.
Now turn the work around and work back the other way working back
up the pattern you have just created – but in reverse (2.
1. 2.).
- When you have reached the end
where you begun your work thread through the beads that start the
work, through the end bar back up the inside of the work and back
to the silver bead that has the piquot thread through the copper
bead of the piquot adding a silver bead, back down through the
next copper bead (4. the point
of the three copper beads) add one silver and five
cinnamon beads, thread needle through the second end bar hole (as
you have done previously)back up through the beads you have just
threading on, up through the copper and silver bead, now add
copper bead, a silver bead another copper bead, coming back up
through the copper bead marked ‘4’ above, back
through the beads you have just threaded (copper and silver only)
add five silver beads, bicone and cinnamon seed bead thread
through the third end bar eye, back up the work you have just
done to the last silver bead, add one silver bead then start your
‘Pattern’ 1. again.
Repeat 1, 2, 3 and 4 for each
row.
NOTE: The 3rd, 4th, 5th,
6th and 7th rows of the pattern are as follows. Continue
threading beads as normal with the exception of the piquots.
Instead of threading three copper beads - thread one then thread
needle through point of piquot that exists (coming back onto the
row youself), add copper bead then thread through second silver
bead (continuing work towards the end bar) thread a silver bead.
This should take you to the last end bar complete the steps 1 and
2 as stated above.
Connect the parrot clasp with a jump ring to end of bar.
When you have finished the bracelet dab small drops of glue on
the end bars where thread is exposed and any knots that you have
done through the work where you have joined new and existing
threads.
I have chosen to make
this bracelet with cotton simply because of the piquots –
to enable them to sit properly when worn. This pattern can be
replicated for a choker necklace as well.
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