Frosty Flowers Bracelet
Icy coolness of the Steel Blue glass pearls and the Frost Flowers Seed Beads mix makes four silvery strands of beads that make up the cool cuff.
Karla Schafer, Auntie's Beads Designer
Instructions:
Please note that I attached the strands in a way that makes them overlap, so this is the ratio: strand 1 crimps into the 3rd loop; strand 2 crimps into the 4th loop; strand 3 crimps into the 1st loop and strand 4 crimps into the 2nd loop. 1. Working with the clasp together helps to crimp the strands correctly. Cut 4 pieces of beading wire 10” in length string a crimp and 3mm ss, bead on each strand and crimp each one into one side of the clasps 4 eyes, using the magical crimp forming tool.
2. Working with strand one: string a few of the seed beads then a pearl and so on spacing out the pearls and seed beads, through out the strand, using about 7 pearls per strand. Bead each strand to about 7” and crimp into the perspective “eye” as mentioned above. .
3. Working with strand two: string a pearl, a few seed beads, pearls, etc. .
4. Working with strand three: string a few seed beads, a pearl, etc. .
5. Working with strand four: string a pearl, a few seed beads, etc. .
6. The bracelet will have a gentle woven twist to it if you the strands were crimped into the different eyes.
Materials and Tools Needed:
Glass Rice Pearl Strand, Steel Blue, 8 x 15mm
Miyuki Multi Bead Mix, Frost Flowers
Sterling Silver Seamless Beads, 3mm, Bag of 25- 8pc
Silver Plate 4 Strand Slide Lock Clasp
Beadalon 49-strand Wire, 30 ft., .018
Crimp Beads, Bag of 100, 2 x 2 mm- 8pc
Nipper Tool
Bead Smith Magical Crimp Forming Tool For .014"-.015" Wire
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