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Click here for larger sizeFree Project: Wrapped In Chains

Design by Margot Potter

This ingenious design fits beautifully around the wrist without the chains and beaded strand becoming tangled. Beautiful crystals make for a chic, sophisticated bracelet.

Materials

  • 6mm CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements round crystals: 9 Indian sapphire, 9 Indian red
  • 9 (6mm) jet CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements crystal rondelles
  • 1/2-inch silver textured cross
  • 8 (10mm) silver Balinese spacers
  • 2 (3/4-inch) silver textured flattened bead cones
  • 2 (1.3mm) silver-plated crimp tubes
  • 4 (6mm) silver-plaed jump rings
  • 2 (20-gauge) silver-plated eye pins
  • 22-gauge silver-plated head pin
  • 2 (38-link) sections silver-plated rolo chain
  • 8 inches .018-inch-diameter 49-strand nylon-coated flexible beading wire
  • Round-nose pliers
  • Chain-nose pliers
  • Crimp pliers
  • Wire nippers

Finished Size
8 inches (including clasp)

Instructions

1) String a crimp tube 1/2 inch from one end of beading wire; insert short wire tail through a jump ring and back through the crimp tube. Use crimp pliers to flatten the crimp tube.
2) String the following beads: Indian red, jet, Indian sapphire and a silver spacer. Continue stringing beads in this pattern until the final Indian sapphire bead has been strung.
3) String a crimp tube; insert wire through a jump ring and back through crimp tube and a few beads. Flatten the crimp tube. Trim excess wire.
4) Open end links of rolo chains and attach to end jump rings on opposite sides of beaded strand. Close links.
5) Open loop on an eye pin and slide onto one of the end jump rings; close loop.
6) Slide eye pin through wide end of a bead cone. Note: Keep chains to each side of beaded strand and let them fall beneath as the eye pin is pulled through cone.
7) Form a wrapped loop with wire extending from narrow end of cone; trim excess wire.
8) Repeat steps 5-7 for opposite end of bracelet.
9) Slide silver cross onto a head pin; form a wrapped loop. Trim excess wire. Use a jump ring to attach beaded head pin to one end of bracelet.
10) Attach clasp to opposite end with a jump ring.

Sources: Cross and spacers from Singaraja Imports; textured cones from Pacific Silverworks; chain and findings from Beadalon; crystals from CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements.

Copyright © February 2009 Simply Beads magazine. All rights reserved.

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