Materials…
- Clear 0.7mm nylon elastic
- Assorted green beads in various sizes, shapes, patterns and finishes
- Dark teal 4mm crystal bicones
- Green Czech glass seed beads
- Assorted silver decorative spacer beads and bead caps in various sizes, shapes, patterns and finishes, including spacer beads with loops
- Antique silver 21x6mm dragonfly wings
- Glue
Tools…
- Round-nosed and flat-nosed pliers
- Scissors
To create…
1 Cut the required length of 0.7mm clear nylon elastic to fit your wrist size – I have used approximately 18cm as the wrist measurement and added 10cm to allow for finishing.
2 Keeping around 5cm of the elastic in one hand to avoid the beads falling off, thread on your selection of beads and bead caps. Between each of the bead caps, add a looped spacer, from which to attach the charms.
3 Once you have threaded all the beads onto the elastic, grip the two loose ends and tie in a double knot. Without loosening it, apply a small amount of glue to the knot and allow to dry.
4 Once set, you will have formed the bracelet base. Put to one side and begin to construct the individual charms. Select the beads, bead caps and stoppers for each charm, thread through a headpin and turn a double loop to the base of the bead.
5 Attach each of the charms to the looped spacers using the oval jump rings by simply opening the jump ring, threading through the loop of the charm and spacer and closing.
Project by Jemma French from Creative Beads & Jewellery issue 13