All about jewellery making

I designed this daisy bead bracelet to incorporate the polymer clay daisy beads that I made.  I thought I would share the instructions for the bracelet with you here.  You could use any other kind of flower beads or fancy lampwork beads but if you would like to use daisies like mine they are available from my shop - here.

Materials

3x daisy beads (available here)
Small amount of size 8/0 seed beads in pale green
Approx. 10g of size 11/0 seed beads.  I have used frosted white
1x beaded bead, large bead or alternative for clasp
Nymo thread
Beading needle

The first stage is to create the bracelet base or ’stem’.  This provides a sturdy basis onto which you can build your seed bead embellishment.  My bracelet is approximately 7.5 ins but you may wish to lengthen or shorten it accordingly.

Starting with your beaded bead or alternative clasp create the ’stem’ by threading your beads as follows - 18x 8/0 seed beads, 1 daisy bead, 5x 8/0 seed beads, 1x daisy bead, 5x 8/0 seed beads, 1x daisy bead, 18x 8/0 seed beads.  At the end of this sequence you need to make your fastening loop.  Make sure that it is big enough to go over your beaded bead or whatever fastening you have chosen.  Here I have used 21x 11/0 seed beads and have taken the thread back through the first and second 11/0 beads to complete the loop.  When you have done this fasten off securely.  You are now ready to add on the seed bead embellishments.

The ‘embellishments’ are really very simple as they are just loops of either 9 or 11 seed beads.  I found this easiest to achieve by adding them in 2 stages.

Taking a new thread bring your needle up between the first and second 8/0 beads.  Thread on 9x 11/0 seed beads, take your needle back through the first 11/0 added and then through the next 8/0 bead so that you are ready to add the next loop on the opposite side of the stem between beads 3 and 4.  This loop will have 11 beads instead of 9.  This alternation of the number of beads just provide a bit of variety.  Keep going like this until you reach the end of the bracelet.  Then go back the other way adding sets of 9 beads opposite the loops containing 11 and vice versa.  If you wish you could add even more loops.

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