How To Make Your Own Bangle Bracelets
How to make copper bangle bracelets with large pigsty chaplet
July i, 2011
Ane of Sondra'due south bracelets from Bead & Button 2011.
Hello, bloglandia! Our sales manager, Sondra, was fortunate enough to nourish Tracy Stanley's "Bangles with a Bulletin" class at Bead & Push button last month. We've been oohing and ahhing over her wristful of chunky metal, so yesterday nosotros got together and made some of our ain bracelets.
For a sturdy yet slightly flexible bracelet base of operations, we used 14 approximate copper wire. Start with nearly ten-eleven″ of wire. Only form a big loop on one end with circular nose pliers and hammer slightly. Slide on lots of big hole beads: 14 gauge wire is about 1.63mm, so your beads need to have holes that are at least 1.7mm large. Annihilation marketed as a Pandora or European-style bead will hands fit.
Mixed-metallic mania bracelets are fun to habiliment en masse!
We mostly used metal, only trade chaplet and gemstones await neat too. TierraCast has some peculiarly overnice big hole metallic chaplet. Y'all can also add coils of wire every bit decoration below floating beads, or every bit stoppers between beads. Shape the wire into a bracelet shape around your wrist and finish with some other loop.
Y'all can connect the two stop loops together directly, connect them with leap rings or add a jewelry squeeze. It is ameliorate to err on the modest side, since a too-small bracelet can be extended with a bound ring or two, while a as well-large bracelet will just get flying off your wrist!
Lindsey used a few jump rings to make her bangle fit her wrist – and a rooster to make it fit her personality!
A giant lobster squeeze is easy to open/close.
A couple of other bracelet-making tips:
- Patina your wire, decorative coils and other components before assembling your bracelet.
- Be sure to file down whatsoever abrupt wire points or metal edges.
- Have a whole agglomeration of beads ready, considering in one case yous start, you'll want to make a bunch!
Metal, metal and more metal!
Check out Tracy'south teaching schedule if you're interested in learning how she makes stamped word charms to fit on bangles. Our new brass and copper strips volition save you lot a lot of sawing and cutting time!
~Cindy
Source: https://blog.rings-things.com/2011/07/how-to-make-copper-bangle-bracelets-with-large-hole-beads
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