Making your own jewelry at home gives you the opportunity to add to your fashion routine with stunning, one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art. Bracelets are versatile jewelry accessories to make at home, and you have unlimited options for design them. For instance, a five-string bracelet with squared embellishments is a piece of geometrically inspired jewelry. Knowing make a square five-string bracelet prepares you for making geometric pieces with shaped and textured beads.
Instructions
1. Snip five lengths of jewelry wire measuring about 9 inches each in length. Bundle the wires together with your fingers, keeping the ends of the wire evenly matched.
2. Tie one end of the bundle of five lengths of wire to the jump ring in a double knot. Squeeze a small dot of jewelry glue onto the knot and let it dry for 2 minutes. This further assures that your knot doesn't come undone. This is an easy task that is just like tying a knot with one strand of wire, but instead using five strands at once to tie the knots. Jewelry wire is very fine so you should experience no problem tying it.
3. Select the first string of the tied formation to the left. Slide a single square bead down the length of the wire. Square beads come in a seemingly unending variety of sizes, colors and materials. These squared beads give your bracelet the geometric looks of being squared on your wrist after you finish it.
4. Slide a spacer bead of any shape, size or color choice down the length of wire, allowing it to rest atop the square bead you initially selected. Slide another two spacer beads down the length of wire.
5. Slide a second square bead down the length of wire, allowing it to sit atop the row of three spacer beads. Repeat Step 4 a second time, creating a pattern of three spacer beads between each pair of square beads. Bead the wire in this manner until only 1 inch of wire remains at the end.
6. Loop the wire around the second jump ring and secure it into a double knot. Doing this should use most of the excess length of wire used to tie it.
7. Repeat Steps 4, 5 and 6 with each remaining wire. After you have beaded all of the wires and tied them to the jump ring, squeeze a dot of jewelry glue onto each small knot.
8. Pry open one of the jump rings with your pliers and slide one of the opened ends of it into the looped backside of a standard jewelry clasp. Squeeze the jump ring back into place with the pliers.
9. Snip any excess wire fray from the completed bracelet, evening the finished item.
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