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Hi this is Megan with Beadaholique.com and today I'm going to show you
how to make a beaded macrame wrap bracelet and this is the version with
the beads
on the inside. So these are two of our exclusive kits
and there is another version with the beads running along the outside. So make
sure that you are watching the right video for the kit that you have
and the materials that come in your kit are a tube of
size 6/0 seed beads, a spool of waxed linen cord
and a button. So you've got a couple of different options here
and you're going to be able to make however many wraps you want
on that bracelet. So here's an example with two wraps
I'm gonna show you just one wrap for the purposes of a demonstration
so some other things that you're going to need is a pair of scissors
and a ruler and you're going to need some way affix
your work to your work surface. You can either use a macrame board
it's a really handy tool or you can use a clip board
or you can just simply tape your work down to your work surface as long as
you've got a work surface that you're not worried about damaging
go ahead and use a tape that's not going to leave any sticky
residue on your piece because you're gonna tape right across that at some point
so I'm just using masking tape. So the first thing we need to do
is figure how long our cord needs to be
what you're going to do is decide
your desired the wrist measurement. You can either use a standard size like seven or
eight inch
for a woman or you can measure your wrist add about half an inch
I'm going to just do mine for seven inches. Then what you're you're going to do is
multiply that measurement by the number of wraps that you want
I'm just doing a single wrap, so that means that I want my
bracelet to be seven inches and then you will subtract
one-inch for the clasp which means that the number I'm going to work with is
six inches
if I was gonna do the double wrap I would be
doing seven inches times two wraps
is 14 minus 1 inch for the clasp which is 13 inches
would be my number but for the single like I said we're going to work with six inches
so you're going to cut
two pieces of waxed linen cord
going to cut one piece
that is ten times your measurement. For my six inch bracelet I'm gonna cut
sixty inches
which is 5 feet
2, 3, 4, 5
and you're going to cut another piece
that is four times
your measurement plus a foot
so four times six is 24 which is two feet and then I want
one more foot
now we're going to take your longer cord
you're going to string it through the button. If you have
a button with a shank you can just slide it right through
if you have a button with a holes
you just work it
up through one and down through the other one. I like to have it
the finish bracelet you'll notice the button kinda has a cup-shape
I like that facing up so I'm going to
hold it up when I thread my cords through. If you want it
facing down just hold it the other way.
Bring your ends even so that you have the center of the cord
at the button. Then you're going to take
the shorter cords, string
one end through each hole of the button and do the exactly the same thing
so you want the center of both cords at the button
and then you want all four of the cord ends coming down
separate
the longer cords and get them to either side of the shorter cords
and hold that straight in a line so it doesn't have any twist in it
first a few inches. Then we're going to make an overhand knot
by putting a cord into a loop
pulling the button through the loop. You want to tighten that knot
and pull it down so that it's about half an inch from the button
Now we need to secure
our work to our surface
so I'm just going to use a whole mess of tape
when you're taping if you use tape
be very careful, you don't want your tape to come below the surface of
the end of that knot there because that's where we're going to have our knotting
so I've got my tape going just to
the edge of the knot but not passed it
try to make it as secure as you can. Now I want to separate
our cords. You want to
have the longer cords on the outside with the shorter cords to the center
and make sure that they don't have any twists
now hold the center two cords together
with the waxed linen you can actually get them to stick together
You're going use them pretty much as one through most of the knotting on this bracelet
stick them together and leave them
right now we're going to make macrame square knots
to do that you take your left outside cord
you take it underneath the center cords
then you take the right outside cord
bring it underneath that cord that you just had
over the center cords and through the loop on the left
bring it down to that loop and grab both of the
outside cords and pull to tighten and you do want to also pull
your center cords down. You don't want them to get twisted
or get bunched up
pull that up all the way to the knot, that's half of a square knot
next your gonna take your left cord go over
the center cords, then you take the right cord
go over that, under the center cords
and up through the loop
pull that tight
that is one square knot. It's important to alternate
when you start taking your left cord under and over
if you just keep doing your knots the same way they're going to twist and that's a
different kind of knotting
you want nice square knots that sit flat. You need to alternate
so we're going to now make one more square knot
take the cord under the center, the right cord under that,
over the center and down through the loop
and finished that square knot play by taking the left cord over the center
take the right cord over that, under the center
up through the loop
Now we're going to add our first bead so take one of the
seed beads, holding your center
cords together slide the bead onto both cords
and slide it up until it sits
just below the last knot. Now we're going to make two more square knots
take the left cord under, right cord under
over, through and you want to pull that
nice and snug so that the cords sit
flat to the sides of your bead. We're going to finish that square knot
over, over, under,
through
one more square knot here, under
under, over and through
over
over, under
and through
we're going to add another bead
and slide it up under the knot. You're going to keep
adding one bead and then making two square knots, so under,
under, over and through
over
over, under and through
and I'll make
one more square knot here. Under, under,
over and through and
over, over, under and
through. So just continue
adding a bead and two square knots
until you've reached your desired length so
I'll keep doing that until I have six inches
When you have you're knotting completed
you wanna go ahead and move your work up the table because now you're gonna be
working at the end
If you're doing two or three wraps you'll probably gonna need to do this as you
work anyway. So go ahead and
and tape it, scoot it up and
tape it back down and
like I said you wanna make sure you're using masking tape, painters tape or something
that's not gonna
damage your bracelet if you're using tape
you can also use a macrame board, a clip board
you can even sometimes if you're careful
you can pin it to your
pant leg. There's lots of a little tricks for that
so whatever you find easiest okay
another reason that we cut an extra foot right on our center cords were so that we
would have
a decent amount of cord leftover when you're done with your knotting. So you
should have
about a foot on both of your center cords, Split your center cords
and now you have your two left cords
and two right cords. Take the left cords put them to the side
we're gonna work with just the right cords for now. What we're going to do
is use the center right cord
to tie an half hitch knot onto the outer right cord
tie an half hitch knot. It's very simple. We're gonna
now call this the left cord and that right cord. Take the left cord
and lay it over the right cord with a bend so that it makes a number four
then you're just going to take the tail
and bring it up through that loop
pull it up until it's snug. I'm going to continue
and make a whole strand of these knots
bring it over and then bring the tail up through
you want to pull these
nice and snug so that you don't have a lot of extra wasted cord
in this part because the
looser you leave it the more the more of this cord you're going to use up. These knots
do tend to twist around, spiral around
the good thing about the waxed linen cord is it's pretty moldable so you can
just
pull it straight, if it starts getting twisted just
straighten it back out. You're going to continue until
your half hitch knotted piece measures about an inch and a half
and as it spirals around just straighten the knot out
you can also kinda stretch it a little bit. You want to make sure you don't see gaps
in your cords there but as long as you don't see gaps
you'll get a little more out of it
by pulling on it gently
You want to measure from the very end of you're knotting
do the end of the half hitch knots and you want about
one and a half inches. You have that
go ahead and take your
work off of your table. We're going to
fold that piece back. Right now your
just going to use your thumbnail to hold that down nice and tight
take the button and make sure that that fits
if you think you need to add another knot or two
go ahead and do that otherwise if you're good you're going to
lay down those cords of those
half hitch knotted pieces parallel with the bracelet
take the other two cords
and bring them around from the back to the front
tie a surgeon's knot
in these cords and it's gonna cover over these and
kind of clamp them down. Now surgeons knot is just like
a regular basic knot. In a regular knot you take
your cord, bring it around through
the loop. On a surgeon's knot take that
through one more time, bring that right to the base
of those other cords and you wanna pull it
really snug. Then we're going to take
our other tails here
wrap them around
all the way
bring them back to this side. You wanna keep the knots on one side so have one side
that's cleaner
it can be the front. Now we're going to make a surgeon's knot
in these two cords. Again just bring
your cord around and through the loop one more time
and then tighten that surgeons knot
the waxed linen is pretty sticky and it's pretty moldable
it will stick to itself and kind of glue those knots in
so you don't really need to use glue all you do is
trim the tails off about a sixteenth of an inch away
do it on both sides
and then you'll just use your fingers
to squish the tails in and you can see
with that waxy finish just squishes right in and you don't see it
and then you have a nice clean wax side on the other side
slide the button
into the loop and you're all done.
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