Bracelets Made of Earrings

For a light evening beading project I chose to make this lovely earrings called Mia from BeadsMagic

I was so pleased with how it turned out and how easy and fast it was to make one square so I just kept making them until I had enough for a bracelet. I have rather thick bones so I needed 6 squares for my hand. For my friend's hand I only had to use 5 squares. I have tried different clasp solutions with every one of them to not be to repetitive.

My favourite one is the first one I made - bronze with clear bicones.

Don't know what it is about it but I just LOVE how it turned out. There is something about it what gives it this wow factor. Is it the metallic bronze beads? Or the clear bicones? I have never used any of them for any other project before but now it's gonna be one of my favourite combinations.

Gold and green.

After finishing the first one I was truly convinced that metallic beads with any bicone would give me this WOW effect - I was wrong! My expectations were so high and the gold bracelet didn't deliver. Now, what if I would replace the bicone for some lighter colour? Would that be a solution?

Pastels.

I have shown few colour combinations to a friend of mine and she encouraged me to continue with this blue/green/peach mix. I personally have mixed feelings about it, but I learn to be more open minded about the accessories I make. Something I like might not necessary be also nice for others and vice versa.

Which colour combination is your favourite?

Bracelet Peles

This are another of the hurry-up bracelets I made for my friends. I call them the Mermaid and the Princess. For the Mermaid I followed the exact pattern with 7 large beads and 5 fringes on each. But for the Princess I had only 6 large beads which were much wider, so I add one fringe more per each bead. Also, I made those fringes couple beads longer than the pattern said, just to make them vary even more.

Today's tip: Don't be afraid to alternate the design depending to your needs.

Pattern from beadsmagic.com

Flat double spiral stitch bracelet

I was going for a holiday, back to my country, where I have arranged a catch up with some of my high school girlfriends. I thought it would be great to share with them my new growing skill and surprise them with little handmade gifts. I decided to make many bracelets and each of my friends could choose the one she likes the most. I needed patterns that wouldn't be time consuming, but still very effective. Flat double spiral stitch is exactly like this! Pearls and gold are my longtime favourite combination so I started from that one. It took me only around an hour to finish that bracelet and I was in love in how impressive it looks! That is why I decided to make one more, but in different colour scheme.

Today's tip: This stitch is very flexible and easily curves, you could make a necklace out of it as well. Also, you can always double it as showed in this video.

Pattern from pandahall.com