4 feet .014 flexible beading wire
20 4 mm bicone crystals
15 6 mm bicone crystals
Size 11 seed beads (about 4 g)
4 each crimps tubes and clamshells
4 – 6 jump rings (more, as needed, for adjusting length)
Single-loop clasp
Wire cutters
Chain nose pliers
Crimping tool
Another set of pliers, for example, bent nose pliers
Optional and helpful: tweezers
Cut two-foot length of wire. Bring crimp tube to the middle of the wire. Crimp. Pass both ends through one clamshell, so the wires come out its back and crimp is hidden inside. Close clamshell gently with pliers.
Add 15 seed beads (SB) to wire on each side. 1 Add one 4 mm crystal (4C) to wire on one side. Cross other wire through same 4C. Add one 6 mm crystal (6C) to wire on each side. Add one 4C to wire on one side. Cross other wire through same
4C. Snug or tighten up.
Repeat Step 2: add 15 SB per side; add one 4C on one side; cross through same 4C; add one 6C to each side; add another
4C; and cross through second 4C. Stop at fifth 4C/6C/4C combination. End with adding 15 SB. Check bracelet for length.
Adjust by increasing or decreasing the 15 SB per end. Keep same number of SB at each end.
Pass both ends through one clamshell, again so wires come up through inside of shell. Add crimp tube. Loop each wire once
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around crimp and through tube again. Crimp. Using pliers, close clamshell, hiding crimp inside. Cut ends of each wire as close to clamshell as possible. This completes base, below.
Repeat Step 1.
Add 15 SB to each wire. Place completed base already made on work surface, and place the working wires next to it. Pass wire nearer base up from work surface through the first loop of the base to the top.
Add one 4C to this wire. Cross other wire through same 4C. Pass wire now nearer base through 6C already on the base; this
6C is moving to middle of crystal combination. Add 6C to other wire. Add 4C to one wire. Cross other wire through same
4C.
Repeat Step 6, adding SBs and passing wire nearer the base up through loop of base, and repeat Step 7 at each crystal component of base, adding a new 4C and crossing wire through
