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Hi this is Julie with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you the stitch
involved to make this bracelet. It's using all metal beads. I have little four millimeter
cube in antique brass and antique brass twist beads
and I have these little gunmetal beads
and this is the super easy bracelet to make but I wanted to show you how do the
stitching in the video just because it's a little bit of a variation on a ladder stitch
and then I've added little magnetic clasps
which go together really nicely to finish off the bracelet
so I put this on
you can see how it fits, it's very comfortable because of those flat cube beads
so what you're going to need is
four millimeters cube beads, the little gunmetal beads and the
twist
antique brass beads
you'll need two
magnetic clasps
some wildfire black beading thread, this is .006
a needle
and a pair of scissors. That's all you need for this project. This is a pretty basic
which I love
so I've taken a length of thread
and you need to add more thread as you go, so just whatever length you're comfortable
with. This is a little shorter because it's just for the video but I usually
cut myself about two yards
placea stopper bead about twelve
inches from the end
because when we start this we're actually going to be starting on the second row
of our bracelet and then when we're all done we're going to go back, take the bead stop
off,
rethread our needle onto our tail and make the first row and add the
clasp
so let's begin. I'm not going to make this whole bracelet in the video but I'll show you
how to
make the stitch and then you're going to repeat
so
with that stopper bead on we're going to take one
cube bead,
one gunmetal bead
a twist bead
another gunmetal
as you're
placing these on they are metal beads, so they are hollow
which makes it sometimes a little bit difficult to get them onto your needle
they will go
alright so that
as you can see
is the basic foundation for our entire bracelet, that little segment right there
so now to make the next row
take one more cube bead
and go up
under
the last cube bead we just strong
this is why I said this is variation of a ladder stitch in bead weaving
because we basically just made a ladder
go back through
that second
cube bead which was the last one we strung on now
so that's anchored on there and now we need to repeat our pattern
so we need a gunmetal bead
twist
gunmetal
a cube bead
slide those on
all right so what we've got this but we can't really go to the next row until
these two are connected down at the base as well, what's nice about these
cubes is they really
line up flush
so in order to connect this what we need to do
is take our needle go down
through
what was the very first cube bead
come out
the bottom
pull those so that they're together
now we need to
go up and under
what was the last one we strung
and pull. You've got now a thread arc above
and thread arc below, then you can have that
on every sequence
pull
be cautious of your tension, make sure that these are lining up. They will be a little bit
wobbly to begin with but as you get further along
they're going to
solidify
so now we need another cube bead
now we have to make a ladder stitch. We have to make sure that
it's fully connected
go up and under
that previous bead on the last row
so now this one's got the thread bridge above
and a thread bridge below
but now
my thread of course is not in the right direction to make another row
so we just need to go back down
through that last bead
so that our thread and needle is exiting in the right direction
Now make another row. Follow our pattern
This Bracelet comes together really quickly and just following the pattern, going back
and forth
so that's gonna complete our pattern
pull that down
now we have to anchor it to the other side
go down
through that top bead
so you just make that top thread arc
go back up through the bottom
you're starting to build it
now we need to attach what is going to be the first bead in the next sequence
I'm going to do one more full sequence
then hopefully you've got the idea of how to do this
there's our bead
again our thread is not the right direction
so we need to go ahead
go down through
the last bead we strung just so the thread is coming out in the right direction
repeat our pattern
so one gun metal,
a twist
gun metal,
and
four millimeter as well
we can't have it just hanging out there, we need to attach it so again
just basically
a modified ladder stitch where we're connecting them
building the thread bridges
so we've got that
now I want to show you how you're going to attach the clasp
do the exact same thing on this other end where you've left that long tail
you would just take off the stopper bead, rethreading your needle and
do the exact same process
so what we're going to do
I'll show you on the bracelet I actually just
attached the clasp
onto that last row. I just strung it on through the hoop at hte base
take a one half
of our magnetic clasp
first take a cube bead
and attach it
now take your needle
put it directly through the loop in the clasp
complete our sequence. We've added a gun metal and a twist
add another gunmetal and now we need to add
the other clasps because we've got two on here
and we need one more cube bead
slide that down
and attach your cube
just like you've been doing with all the other ones
so basically don't modify
what you're doing at all
for those clasps you just put them in there
the little loop of the base
has a narrow enough profile
that it really doesn't affect the width of your bracelet so it just goes in there
and it's nice and flush. So that at this point
you would just
incorporate your thread
back into your beadwork
tie it off as usual. We actually have another video on Beadaholique.com
showing how to tie off your thread and add another thread. You'll need to
know both of those techniques for this
project
I want to show you one little caution thing, you could tell that I just took one
clasp. I separated it and put it on either end
there's gonna be
two sides to any magnetic clasp
one is going to go like that
where's going to be the pair of the partner
the other one
it's going to go like that
so it's fine if you do what I did where I just took one clasp, separated it, but make sure
you line up then the other
halves
when you separate your second-clasp
so that they match
this will save you some frustration to not having to tear out your bead work and
redo it
so that's a quick tip. This bracelet is very easy to make and it will get tighter as
you go and when you do go ahead and weave your tail back in it's going to reinforce the
bead work as well
and then your final project
is going to look like this
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