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Hi. This is Andrea for Beadaholique.com In this video I'm going to show you
have to make a wrapped bracelet
just like this one.
In today video were not gonna be using skulls. This is just a special design for
halloween.
But it's the same principle.
What you're going to need for this is
some cord.
about two millimeters wide. We're using a rubber cord.
You can use a faux leather or leather or you could use
a waxed cotton.
It's up to you.
You're gonna need
a button. This one doesn't have a shank. I just
thread
the court right through
the button holes.
Today I'm going to be using one that I made myself with a little shank.
To make the bracelet wrap around once
I have about
three feet here
and you're gonna have to suspend your cord somehow so you can work
with both hands free.
I have this black box here
because this is the easiest way I can think of showing you
how to do this because you need to clamp this down. So I have two bull dog clamps.
If you're making this at home
you can probably rig something up that that you can tied it to.
Say a leg of a
table which I've done before. I found that really
helpful
but if not this is a good
kind of compromise. You could find a sturdy box
and clamp it down and you can do your weaving that way. So that's what we're going to do today.
I'm going to go ahead and put the button on one end.
To do that
I have my cord doubled up.
I'm just going to insert one end
through the shank on my button
put it right down to the middle.
I'm going to tie a knot right
behind that button shank.
Just a simple overhand knot.
So quickly what I've done here
is I have a little scrap piece of
material that I tied onto the shank of my button.
This is what I used to clamp this down to the side of my
box here
because I don't want to damage the actual cord
and once I'm done I can just snip this right off.
I'm going to clamp that down.
I'm going to string my
cord across the box.
I'm going to clamp it down on the other side and I'm going to spread it apart a little to
have room to work.
I don't mind ruining this side because I'm going to be either be beading around it
or I'm going to tie it into a knot
so I can worry about that later.
First thing first
I'm going to take
my Griffin silk
and I'm going to
tie it into a knot
around the top of my bracelet
underneath
the button.
I'm going to do just a square knot
simple overhand knot followed by another one
and that's right in the middle of my Griffin silk.
You're going to need some beads. I'm using six millimeter today. I'm using purple
and these
lovely olive green beads.
You can do smaller beads. You can use
three millimeter
up to as large as
what I have with the skulls. I think they're about fourteen millimeter.
Also today
you're gonna need
I prefer using
two needles. I've got two big eye needles.
Now the griffin silk
comes with a needle at one end. I just went and cut that off. I'm going to use the
big eye needles instead.
But you can use the pre-existing needle if you like.
By the way this is
size two Griffin.
Now today I'm going to be making a single wrap.
If you'd like to make double or triple wrap just
use twice as much and three times as much
cord.
I'm going to put
the big eye needle on each end
on my Griffin silk
on the right hand side.
one on the left.
To begin weaving I'm going to take
my needles and I'm going to put them through the middle
of my cord. My two pieces of cord.
SO I'm starting out with my thread
coming out of the middle of my bracelet.
I'm going to add my first bead
going to do a purple
gemstone bead.
I'm going to put my right needle
through it going the opposite direction
and my left
needle criss crossing.
I'm going to pull tight.
Ideally what we want
is
we want the bead to be right in between the cord and obviously when you first
start out that can be quite difficult.
I'm going to try to just place it there
for the time being.
Once you add more beads they'll all line up
and fall into place.
Moving on to our second bead
what we're going to do again is
take both needles and go through the middle
just like we did before.
We're going to add our second bead.
Normally you would use the same color the
string as you would cord
but like I said I'm just using this bright orange
so you can see what I'm doing
but also if you like that
design option it's there for you.
I my second bead done.
I'm going to do the same thing that I did previously.
Take both needles through the center
and I'm going to add another bead
criss crossing and pull tight until the
new bead is
snug up against the other two.
Take both needles go through the center.
You'll get a rhyme pretty soon and figure out what tension works best for you
but you wanna pull pretty snug so the beads aren't moving around too much.
I'm going to add one more bead
I'm going to pull tight.
One more time and go through the center with both
needles.
Okay I'm gonna continue doing this until I reach the end of my bracelet and then
I'll show you how to finish it.
As you can see
I have most of my bracelet completed.
You're gonna want about
five inches because the bracelet is going to be made adjustable
with extra loops on the end
that you can put your button through.
So the smallest size is going to be around six and a half seven inches.
So now that I have all my beads
sewn onto my cord
I'm going to remove my
needles.
I'm going to one last time put my thread through the inside.
I'm going to tie this off now. You can do that several different ways. You can actually
leave this long
and tie
the silk thread
in
with your knot.
I'm going to
finish it off with a couple of overhand knots
on each side.
So what I'm doing real quick is I'm just making
kind of like the number four
going up
through
and pulling tight.
You can do that a few times just so it'll be a little more secure.
So you can either leave it like this and trim it off
and possibly put a tiny little dab of glue like GS Hypo cement and on the
knots so they're not going anywhere.
Or I'm gonna show you how to tie it into the rest of the
loops for that clasp.
So you're going to remove your
bracelet
from your working surface.
Like I said before I have an extra piece of string on there. I'm just going to
ahead and cut that off because we don't need that anymore.
I'm going to take
my thread and my cord together
and I'm simply going to make an overhand
knot.
Bring it up to my
beads as it can go without making it too
scrunched up.
Now is my thread is the same color as your cord this isn't gonna matter at all so you
won't be able to see that and it's a good way to keep the thread
very secure on there.
I'm going to go ahead and cut off the access
thread right now.
To make this adjustable I need to make several different loops. So
to make the first one I'm just going to kind of roughly measure how much space I
would need for my button
to pass through.
So I'm going to need it about
maybe three quarters of an inch.
I'm just going to eyeball it
and make another
very tight overhand knot.
Going to make sure that it's going to fit.
That should be just about perfect.
So I'm about to go
about five eighths to three quarters of an inch away equal
lengths.
I'm going to make another overhand knot/
Now all I have to do is cut off my excess cord.
I always like to do it unbiased on an angle because it looks a little better.
There you have a finished wrap bracelet.
Now once again
this is just a single wrap. You can do it as long as you like. You can have
wrap around as many times as you like.
It's a fun little project and you can make
many variations of this
very same bracelet.
So have fun with it and I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thanks for watching.
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