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Ingredients

Preciosa Twin Beads – we used the Brass/Copper Colourway

Size 11 Seed Beads – we used Galvanised Rose Gold and Fancy Frosted Palest Cocoa

6mm Fire polish Beads (we used the Hexagon colourway)

Fireline 10lb Thread

Toggle Clasp

Size 12 Beading Needles

Tools Required: Pretty Bird Scissors, GS Hypo Cement Glue

Method

1. Cut a 1.5 meter length of Fireline thread and add a needle to both ends.

2. Take the R needle and thread on 5 seed beads followed by the ring from your toggle clasp.

3. Take the L needle and thread on 5 seed beads – let all the beads fall to the centre of the thread.

4. Now take the R needle and pass it through all the beads you have threaded on with the L needle and then through the ring of the toggle clasp and the 5 beads you threaded on with the R needle in step 2. Pull the threads tight and you will now have a loop of seed beads with your toggle clasp attached to it.

5. Now take your R needle and thread on 1 Twin, 1 seed, 1 Twin, 1 seed, 1 Twin, 1 seed, 1 Twin, 1 seed, 1 Twin

6. Take the L needle and thread it through the empty hole on all the twin beads you have just threaded.

7. Take the L needle and thread on 1 seed, 1 Twin, 1 seed, 1 Twin, 1 seed, 1 Twin, 1 seed, 1 Twin

8. Take the R needle and thread through the empty holes in all the twin beads you have just threaded.

9. Take R needle and thread on 1 seed, 1 Twin, 1 seed, 1 Twin, 1 seed, 1 Twin, 1 seed, 1 Twin

10. Repeat steps 6-9 until your bracelet is 1cm shorter than the desired length – as you pull your threads tight the beads will form a kind of “twist”

11.Now take the R needle and thread on 5 seed beads followed by the bar from your toggle clasp.

12. Take the L needle and thread on 5 more seed beads and go back through the 5 seed beads, the toggle and the 5 seed beads just added and you will have a loop with your clasp attached.

13. Now work your L needle back through the twin beads and seed beads on the bracelet until you get to the first U shape in the pattern – exit through a seed bead and then thread on another seed bead (you can use a contrasting colour here if you like) followed by a 6mm Firepolish bead and another seed bead. Now take your needle back into the pattern through the next seed bead at the top of the U shape.

14. Continue down the side of the bracelet adding seed beads until you reach the end, now repeat with the R needle.