How to make a fashionable do-it-yourself bracelet: master class

A fashionable bracelet is an indicator of the owner’s style and taste. Such an accessory will complement any image and make it complete. The main thing is to choose a color and shape. After all, not every bracelet looks good on everyone. Therefore, you can do the most suitable thing for yourself with your own hands.

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The most fashionable bracelets now that you can do with your own hands are shambhala. Decide on a color that suits most wardrobe clothes and start choosing materials. What is needed for work:

• Three meters of waxed cord.
• Ten beads.
• Scissors.
• Colorless nail polish.
• Board and two nails. This is necessary for weaving. Drive nails into a board at a distance of 30 centimeters from each other, the machine turned out. It can also be purchased at a craft store.

This set of materials is suitable for beginner needlewomen. By learning to weave a regular shamballa bracelet, you can master more complex techniques.

How to make a bracelet

1. Tie the edge of the waxed cord to one nail .
2. Pull it to another nail, leaving an additional five centimeters, cut it off.
3. String the available beads on it in the necessary order, starting after ten centimeters from the nail.
4. Pull the cord well and tie it to the second nail.
5. Cut 2.5 meters of the cord. Stand back two centimeters from the nail and tie through the center of the cut off. That is, the edges should have the same length at the edges.
6. It should turn out so that the left part sticks out higher from the node. We start weaving with it. Pass it under the main thread and over the right.
7. We draw the right part over the main and under the left.
8. Tighten. The result is a node that will be used throughout the work.
9. If you did everything right, then the right side sticks out higher.
10. Now the right segment passes under the main thread and over the left side.
11. The left part is above the main and under the right cord.
12. Tighten. Weave twenty knots according to this plan.
13. You almost learned how to weave a fashionable shamballa bracelet. Now add a bead to the regular node. We braid it.
14. After three base nodes, another one follows with a bead.
15. Keep doing this until the beads run out.
16. Weave another fifteen base nodes.
17. Remove the bracelet from the machine. Having retreated five centimeters from the base knots, weave two simple knots on the main cord. Cut off the rest.
18. Lubricate the last knots with prepared varnish.
19. To make a convenient adjustable clasp, you need to close the edges of the main cord in a circle. The ends of the cords with the nodes are directed towards each other. By the ropes that did the main work, we make five basic nodes.
20. Make simple knots on the remaining cord, cut off the rest. Lubricate with varnish.

You learned how to make a simple version of the shamballa bracelet. Experiment with bead diameters, colors, and even number of rows.

Fashion trend

Fashionable women's bracelets are now very relevant. Do not be afraid of a large number of them, put them on both hands, but make sure that the accessories are combined in form, texture or color. Use large sizes. How to do it? You will need an ordinary plastic bottle for the base and improvised materials for decoration. It can be a fabric of different textures, rhinestones, threads, paint, varnishes, brooches.

Working process:

1. Cut a four-centimeter-wide bracelet from a plastic bottle.
2. If the bottle is colored, and you are going to work with transparent material, then glue the base with masking tape.
3. Take a fabric with a pattern that suits you. Cut the flap, which is one and a half centimeters larger than the base on each side.
4. Paste over the bracelet.
5. To cover the inside of the bracelet, use masking tape.
6. Cut another strip of fabric and glue it inward.
7. Sew or glue the beads, stones, rhinestones.

A lace or guipure accessory will look very gentle. You do not need to add unnecessary details to it. This fashionable bracelet is notable for the fact that it requires minimal cash and time costs. For each dress, you can make your own unique decoration.

Ethnic style

What fashion bracelets are more than one season? In ethnic style. They are easy to make from felt and mouline thread matching in color. Commonly used are red, black, yellow, orange, burgundy, brown, white. As an example, take the felt of the last three colors and suitable threads.

Working process:

1. Measure the circumference of the wrist and add three centimeters. This length should be the product.
2. Draw circles patterns on paper. Two will be 4 centimeters in diameter, four by 3, they are used for the base. Only half will be visible, the rest are needed to hide the wrong side. And cut out a few smaller circles for decoration.
3. Embroider the pattern on the smallest details, attaching them to the middle ones. It can be stitches and zigzags.
4. Now connect the middle parts in the same way with the largest.
5. Assemble the bracelet. This will help the photo of the finished product. Fold pairs of circles and connect with a decorative stitch.
6. Fasten the parts on the sides.
7. For the fastener you will need two burgundy rectangles and white. The last one is a little shorter, make a slot in it for a button
8. Sew on the button.

The work is over. You can come up with different versions of this bracelet, changing the shape of felt.

Polymer clay

Polymer clay is an excellent material for making a bracelet in ethnic style. Here you can use any colors, patterns and shapes. For work, you need stacks for plasticine and improvised materials. Twist the harnesses, make circles, squares, semicircles, leaves. Try any sizes. The bracelets are thin, so you need to make several of them at once and wear them together. The material is comfortable and malleable, takes shape well, so working with it will not be difficult. It can harden in the oven or on its own.

Male accessory

Fashionable men's bracelets, made with love with your own hands , will become a gift for a young man, friend or father from a girl. Indeed, the strong half is not keen on needlework. Such a thing can be made using the technique already known to us, used in weaving a shamballa bracelet. Just do not use beads. For men, a wider bracelet is suitable.

Materials:

• Lace or rope. You need to calculate this: per centimeter of the bracelet 13 centimeters of cord. That is, for a 20-centimeter wrist, 2.5 meters of material is needed.
• Scissors.
• Buckle.
• Lighter.

Working process:

1. Tie a knot at one end of the buckle so that the same length of cord is on either side of it.
2. In the second part of the buckle we pass the ends. A cord should be pulled the length of a man’s wrist.
3. Bend the edges of the cord so that you can weave according to the principle of the bracelet of Shambhala.
4. We pass the left part of the lace under the main threads and over the right part.
5. The right thread is above the main thread and under the left one.
6. Continue until you reach the second part of the buckle.
7. Solder the ends to the product with a lighter.

Leather bracelet

To please your man, learn how to make fashion bracelets with your own hands. MK will help with this. Take a piece of leather and a clerical knife. Working process:

1. Cut a rectangle from the skin 3 centimeters larger than the required size of the product.
2. Apply the drawing with a clerical knife.
3. Draw simple parallel lines, of which later weave.
4. Cut a pattern about a third of the thickness on the skin.
5. Cut strips all the way down.
6. Bind them together and secure with a wand.
7. Punch holes at the edges for mounting.
8. Put the bracelet on the jar for ease of use.
9. When done, boil the bracelet with the jar. At this moment, the accessory will take the necessary shape, and the pattern will look like a thread. Cooking lasts three minutes.
10. Cool the product, correct defects. Wrap protruding sides of the skin with a cloth.
11. Polish the bracelet with sandpaper and coat with shoe polish of a suitable color.

Basic Techniques

The simple techniques described above will help you create a unique fashionable bracelet for yourself and your young man. If you are a creative person with time and good imagination, then be sure to try making an accessory with your own hands.