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Today I will be showing you how to make one of these wrap style bracelets.
They're very popular right now and fun to make for yourself.
I'll explain the simple math that you can use to make how ever many wraps you want.
The first thing you will need is some cord.
This is the cord that goes on the edge.
It makes up the two edges of your bracelet.
This is the same as in this pink bracelet.
It's 1mm black leather cord, but you can use whatever works for you.
You can use waxed linen twine.
You can use thicker leather cord, anything that you have that you can wrap around; whatever
you want really.
This is what I have and so I cut a piece of that to make my bracelet.
I've decided I'm going to make a quintuple wrap bracelet.
That's five times.
I really love this double wrap bracelet that I made.
I wear it all the time, but I thought it would be fun to make one that looked like multiple
bracelets in some earthy tones, with just a pop of color with this turquoise.
So that's how I selected my beads.
I selected five different ones and these might get thrown in just later because I love them,
but I only have a few.
A variety of textures and shapes and colors makes a good mix.
The other thing you will need, the main component is some kind of cord to do the wrapping.
This is a silk cord and I really like silk.
I saw some of these bracelets made in a craft store and it appeared to me that the wraps
were done with some kind of cotton cord and I just think silk is a stronger fiber and
the edges are going to get a lot of wear and abuse so I would stick with silk.
Now you'll often find it in cards like these and these are great because they're 2mm cards
all measured out for you and they have a little twisted needle on the end, a little wire which
is nice because you don't have to do any threading of needles.
However they only come in 2mm lengths and the only place I've been able to find them
is online so I went ahead and bought this big spool from Amazon and I'll put the link
on my blog for you and this is size FF and it's fine enough that it will go through the
holes of all of the beads that I have here, but you can still thread it and it's large
enough that it still has some presence and strength on the edge of the bracelet.
You'll also need a needle threader if you're not using the pre-needle wrapped silk cord.
You'll need a button for your closure and you can use either a shank button like this
one or you can use one with holes.
Either one will work.
You'll need some Super Glue and I'm going to be using some jump rings to cover my beginnings
and endings of cords.
Since I'm making such a long bracelet I'm not going to cut a length of this enough to
do it because it would just be ridiculous to deal with.
And by the way in case you were wondering, one of those 2mm cards of silk cord is just
enough to do a two wrap bracelet so I bought one of the ones in pink and I really like
it, but onward.
So to figure out how much of your side cord you're going to need, that is for the edges
of your bracelet, you want to determine first of all what you need for a bracelet, what
length you need.
It's usually around 6.5-7-7.5".
Once you've determined that, you need to double that number.
So if you have a 7" wrist, double it to 14" and then multiply that number by however many
wraps you're going to do.
So if you're going to do two wraps, that would be 28".
Fourteen times two is 28 and then the final step is to add 12" to that number.
So a double wrap bracelet would be 28 = 12 is 40 and you would cut 40".
That extra 12 is enough to allow you to make these loops at the end to close it and a little
extra for insurance.
So I've cut like an 88 piece of this leather cord and the first step is to put your button
on.
If it's a shank button you can simply slide it on.
If it's a button with holes, you're going to go up through one hole and down the other
and then you want to center your button on your cord.
So now that's centered.
Obviously I can't show you the whole length because it's so long, but this is centered
on the cord.
The next step is to thread a needle with your cord if you haven't purchased one of the cards
with the needle already attached and you'll probably need a needle threader for that.
This is a needle with kind of a larger eye.
Let's see if you can see that.
It doesn't have a little itty bitty eye.
It's kind of a long eye so that helps a lot in threading this needle and I've actually
cut just enough of this silk cord to do half of my bracelet because it would just be, so
that's a little over 3 yds and that would just be crazy to be dealing with 6 yds.
So start with your button centered on your leather cord and lay a little bit of your
silk cord over that and start wrapping and wrap over that end with just a little distance.
Maybe 1/4" and then the next thing you'll need to do is add some Super Glue to that
so just add a drop or two of Super Glue to secure it.
Let it dry before you do anything else.
Let it dry, trim off this little itty bitty tail and then when that's all dry, then you
can go ahead and start beading.
Now that the Super Glue is dry, I'm going to go ahead and tape my cord down to my work
surface.
This makes it a lot easier to deal with as you're doing your wrapping so I'm going to
tape the leather cord down, not the wrapping cord, but the side cords.
And if you have a long one, you can just tape a distance at a time and then move it as your
work progresses.
So just some clear tape is fine.
Alright and now we're going to take our needle with the, there's the other end of my silk
cord and we're going to start beading.
So go under one of your cords and through a bead.
Center that bead in between your cords and I have to tell you the first few are always
the trickiest.
Once you get going it's a lot easier.
Now we're going to take our silk cord under our piece of leather and back through the
bead and what I like to do to make sure I'm not splitting the thread inside the bead,
is I'll pull it up like this so I have the cord in my non-dominant hand, pinched between
my index finger and my thumb and I'm gonna push the bead.
That way I can slide the needle through and the silk cord is pulled away from the hole
on the inside and that way I don't split the thread because if you split the thread it's
nearly impossible to adjust your tension nicely.
And honestly, that really is all there is to it.
I'm just going to keep doing that.
Like I said, it's trickiest when you first start to get the tension adjusted neatly and
with practice you'll get better at it and the first one is fighting with me, but I'm
gonna move on and I'll fix it when I get a couple more on.
Go under your cord, pick up another bead, go under the bottom cord and back through
the bead, pulling the cord away from the hole so you don't split it.
So now you can see that I'm further along and I just wanted to zoom in so you could
see how the pattern works.
Just wrap under the cord, through a bead, under the cord, back through the bead and
repeat.
It's kind of a nice simple meditative process.
I like to put on an audio book or some good music and just enjoy it.
So I'm going to go ahead and wrap seven inches in each color of beads.
When I get to the end of my cord, I will come back and show you how to stop one piece and
start another.
So now I've come just about to the end of this thread and it's time to tie this one
off and tie on a new one, which I already cut and it's pretty simple the way I'm doing
this and the nice thing about using the jump rings to cover it up is you don't have to
be 100% neat about it.
So I'm just going to pinch my two cords and my silk cord about oh 1/4" beyond the last
bead.
I'm also going to add in the end of my new cord and then just go ahead and wrap with
your silk cord edge.
Wrap back up towards the last bead that you beaded on and so this should be about 1/4"
or so.
And once you have that wrapped, just repeat the way I started, we started.
Add a drop of Super Glue and let it dry and then trim the ends, making sure of course
that you don't trim your new piece that you added.
So once the Super Glue is dry and your ends are trimmed, you can go ahead and slide on
some jump rings to cover up those wraps.
I used ten here, however many work for you.
Just make sure that you slide your jump rings over both pieces of leather cord as well as
the new silk cord and then it's time to just tape it down again and go ahead and commence
to beading with the rest of your beads.
So I finished my beading and I've gone ahead and finished up my silk thread just the way
we started and stopped by holding on to an end and then doing several wraps and adding
a drop of Super Glue.
Let it dry, trim your excess.
Now to finish our entire bracelet, we're going to make three over hand knots using both of
these pieces of leather cord.
I like to incorporate my wraps in the first one.
That makes it extra secure.
Then make the next one about an inch or so away.
Make sure there's enough room to get your button in there and I'm almost out of cord
here, but I think I have just enough to make one last one on the end and then your bracelet
is all done.
So here it is.
You can see I had just enough cord.
I probably could have cut a bit extra.
That's one thing to keep in mind if you're cutting a multiple wrap bracelet.
You'll need to allow even more extra, oops going this way, to account for having to wrap
over itself and also wrap further down your wrist where you might need a little bit more
dimension to go around.
Isn't that fun?
And then we can just fasten it with the loop and there you have it.
The quintuple wrap bracelet or directions to make how ever many you want.
So here's another look at our finished project.
I hope you enjoyed it and that you'll give it a try.
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