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Today's bracelet shows you how you can combine an assortment of chain, some left over beads
that work together and make yourself something quite lovely.
So to make this bracelet you will need 10, 8-10 millimeter beads and 12, 6 millimeter
beads, 3 different types of chain, 5 charms or you can make your own charms stringing beads
onto headpins. You'll need 20 gauge wire, head pins, a toggle clasp, chain nose pliers, round
nose pliers and wire cutters. The first thing to do is measure your toggle
clasp, to see how much length that uses, subtract that length from your desired finish bracelet
length and cut a piece of chain to that length. Then you're going to cut a one and a quarter
inch piece of your 20 gauge wire and make a mark with a Sharpie on your round nose pliers
at the 2 millimeter point and then place the wire against that point and make a circle
loop. Once you finish the loop go ahead and kink it back to center it over the wire and
then slide on your bead and repeat on the other side to make another simple loop, this
makes your bead links. Repeat for all of your 8 to 10 millimeter beads. Put a 6 millimeter
bead, slide them on a head pin, trim the wire 3/8 of an inch above the bead and then also
make a simple loop with your round nose pliers and center it over the bead. Here's that one,
repeat for all your smaller beads. And for your charms you can use jump rings
or slide them on head pins and then repeat the trimming and making of loops to make them
into dangles. So these are all our components and now it's time to arrange everything.
One strand will have 6 of the larger beads and no dangles and then another strand will
have 4 beads and all of your dangles. So now it's time to cut your chain into small pieces,
I like to cut this twisted chain because I find it difficult to open it like a jump ring
and then twist it back together properly, so I just cut off the pieces I need.
Open your loops with round nose pliers to the side, and twist it to the side, don't
pull it open and then distort your shape. And then make sure you close it securely and
keep adding small bits of chain to connect to these bead links.
Your ultimate goal is to have all 6 beads on one length of chain that is perhaps just
slightly larger than the chain that you first cut. That's because the beads take up some
thickness. So go ahead and repeat to connect all of these bead links together and also
use a different chain to connect your lower beads. And here they are all, all done.
And now it's time to take all of your bead dangles, your charms and your bead dangles
and just arrange them in an order that you like.
For my little bead dangles I found these small square beads that were drilled diagonally
and I just added an odd assortment of metal beads to each one, so that they're all alike
in that they all have the square bead and they all work together.
So once you have those all arranged, go ahead and use your chain nose pliers. And I really
like my bent nose chain nose pliers for this to help get into the small spaces. And just
open those loops and attach them to this length of chain. Make sure they're closed
securely so you don't miss anything, so you don't lose anything
and then just add them all to the chain. And there
it is all done. Now I've gone ahead and added split rings
to loops in my toggle clasp pieces because the loops are a little small to accommodate
the 3 ends of chain. And then all you'll do is add all the ends to 1 piece, on one end
and on the other ends to the other piece. A split ring is kind of like a key chain and
these are split ring pliers which help hold it open for you, so there I am putting all
the links from one side on one part of the clasp and then I'll put all the links on the
other side. Here I am, sorry it's out of frame, just using a chain nose pliers to help twist
that on. And here it is all done. So I hope you've enjoyed this project and
that you'll give it a try. Pull together an assortment of chain and beads and then make
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