Elegant Wire Bracelet

This is a wire bracelet with beads and chains. This is an intermediate to advanced technique. You must be able to make loops and spirals.

Wire cutters

Chain

Jump rings

18 gauge wire

26 gauge wire

Beads -I used 8mm glass pearls, 4 mm mauve glass beads, and white seed beads

Round nose pliers

Eye pin

Clasp

Use 18 gauge wire for this

This wire will be about 7 inches

At the center of your wire, make a curve. Use something round to help shape it. You can use a marker or the handle of a hammer. I free-formed mine.

Cross the wires.

Make a loop about 1/4 of an inch away from. Where your wires cross. Repeat on the other side.

Make spirals at the end of the wires. Do this by grabbing the end of the wire with your pliers. Curl the wire. Stop before you make a complete loop. Continue curling the wires but not letting it touch the sides.

You may need to cut the wire a little shorter depending on your wrist. This cuff should sit with the spirals on the sides of your wrist

Measure down about an inch from the end of the wire. Hold that to the edge of the spiral. In a slightly curbed line, end just past the top of the loop. Double the length. Cut the wire.

Bend the wire using your pliers. Flat nose pliers can be useful to make it pointy rather than rounded.

Like you did before, curl the ends of the wires into spirals

Cut a long length of the 26 gauge wire. Leaving a tail of 2-3 inches, make a small loop around the pointy wire. This should be on the curve of the spiral. Wrap the wire several times around the wire.

Add a bead to your stringing wire (26 gauge). Wrap around the base wire. Continue for several beads.

The third picture on this step shows how the two 18 gauge wires lay together. Using the 4mm beads, I fit five beads before it was time to attach the two wires.

Lay your pointed wire on top of your round base wire. Using the stringing wire, wrap it 2 around both the base wires. Wrap the wire along just the pointy base wire until you get to the next overlap. Wrap around both the base wires two times. Wrap around the pointy base wire twice.

Continue adding wrapped beads u til the overlap of the two base wires happen.

Wrap the stringing wire around both the base wires twice. I added several beads in the point by wrapping the wire around the point until time to attach the other side. Wrap around both base wires twice and then Wrap around the pointy base twice

Add beads to the pointy base wire until it is time to attach the last pointed wire spiral to the rounded wire.

Repeat step 10, add beads until the curve and then wrap around the pointy base wire twice. Leave the tail.

Cut a long piece of stringing wire. Put one of your larger beads on the string and move it to the middle. Hold the bead into the top of the rounded area and then wrap the stringing wire onto each side.

Wrap one side up the wire and into the small circle. Wrap once around the inner side of the circle. The the wire needs to point to the space between the two circles.

Repeat with the other side.

Put a larger bead (pearl) on one of the two wires. Pull it down until it touches the pointy wire. Thread the other wire through it going the opposite of the first wire. You'll want it to have the wires coming out both sides of the larger bead.

Just like you did before on the pointy wire add beads and wrap around the rounded wire. Wrap both sides down until they meet with the curve of the other base wire. Wrap around the rounded wire twice. Cut the excess wire off.

Use an eye pin to make a connector.

Add a pearl to your eye pin and then make a similar size loop to the eye on the pin.

Open one of the loops on the connector. Slip it into the point and then close it.

Open the connector loop that is not connected to the cuff. You will put the loop in both ends of a 4 inch chain. Close the connector loop

Using the excess tail on the pointy wire spirals, add two jumprings. Wrap the stringing wire around the two jump rings several times. Wrap around the base wire twice. Cut off the excess.

You will put your cuff on your wrist and cut a piece of chain the length needed to complete the circle. It should only be an I ch or so. Open two jump rings and put one end of the chain and the lobster clasp on them. Close them. Attach the other end of the chain to one of the sets of jump rings attached to the cuff